Hey y’all! Sorry I am just now posting this. I started writing it Friday night but wasn’t able to finish it….so if it doesn’t flow or make perfect sense-that’s whyJ I just wanted to update everyone and don’t have time to start it over! I hope you are all blessed! I am very blessed to be here! THANK YOU!
Today we entered Haiti… but it wasn’t easy. The day started off by our bus being delayed 2 hours because they forgot to bring the trailer for our packs. After that we were smooth sailing with the windows down and I was blessed to be 5 deep in the back seat of the bus. I partially say that with sarcasm but part of me is serious because I truly was blessed today. I saw such servant hearts and was able to be part of a joyful, optimistic team. As we rode from the DR to the boarder of Haiti we were avoiding losing complete blood loss to our legs because of lack of room and we were avoiding roaches coming out of the pink curtains on the bus windows but the thing I really loved was everyone was more concerned about the comfort of the ones around them than their selves. Joy and peace were the emotions that overtook our teams the entire 9+hour ride-even when our brakes were going out and we had to pull over and hang out with some locals for about an hour. There was one point where fear tried to creep in and invade our peace and joy. This happened when we first arrived to the boarder to cross. We were already late because of the brake problem and then we were having to talk some locals into letting us through. While this conversation was going on between our WR staff/contact, aaron, we were sitting on the bus being surrounded by some locals. They made us nervous because they were eyeing us and our stuff and on top of that they were trying to talk aaron into splitting us up getting us off our bus and riding on buses they had- we obviously were not going to do that but we were getting a little scared. About that time we realized a bus beside us had psalm 121 written on it… we declared and prayed that over our squad and refused to become fearful of God’s children in Haiti. How could we love people if we were fearful of them?
That night we got through without splitting up-PRAISE GOD! After that we got to a ministry base for dinner and to spend the night. We were so blessed to be there! God gave us a beautiful night and welcomed us into Haiti by amazing stars and the ablitlity to sleep under them on the roof! It was so gorgeous!!! I woke up the next in awe of the beautiful picture God had painted around me and my team!!
