Bonjou Ayiti (Good Morning Haiti)

We are home....we have arrived safely in Haiti.

It seems like we have been here much longer than 3 days.

We have been busy trying to get the basic things we will need to live here.

Working electricity, clean water, mosquito netting put up, phones, groceries, etc.

Thank you for all of your prayers - our travels here went very smoothly. There was one rocky part where the customs official didn't like that we didn't know our address in Haiti and made Jimmy leave me and our passports in a little room with some airport guards and leave the airport on his own to go and try to find whoever was meeting us and get the address. As I sat there I just prayed and tried to figure out what I would do if Jimmy never came back. Thankfully I didn't have to have a solution because he returned after a while with an address (not even for Heartline) and they let us through. Lesson learned - just make up an address. All of our bags made it safely too and we found them pretty easily- surprisingly nothing was really even broken.

We aquired a motorcycle from the Hendricks - Jimmy's new transportation.

He is an amazing navigator and after just a few days can find his way all around here. (Not an easy task in Port-Au-Prince....the streets are crazy and very few are marked). But the task that is actually much trickier than navigating is surviving roads full of loose gravel, mud, and more pot holes than flat road, not to mention avoid unyielding vehicles of every sort from every direction following no particular traffic rules. He's great at it.

We like our new home at the Heartline property. The property is very green and full of plants and trees and shade. Jimmy is very excited about gardening there and has already begun his compost pile and gotten seeds from one of the Haitian workers who is a kindred spirit. They have had different people out at the property helping and are getting a lot of work done quickly on the school.

I am really trying to pick up Creole as quickly as possible. Knowing the language and culture are so important to me. Crazily enough it looks like if I want to be Haitian I may have to start dressing nicer... (Can you imagine Becky without t-shirts and soccer shorts?) All of the Haitian ladies are always dressed up- they might not have much to wear, but they take pride in their appearance and they keep their clothes as clean as possible and always look their best. I think that to them t-shirts and shorts are jut sloppy. Anyways, I haven't made the switch yet, but sadly I think it is coming soon.

We have gotten a chance to meet most of Heartline's full time employees (although there are many many people connected with the ministry) and have been able to see a glimpse of most of the different projects they have going right now. We are blessed and grateful to be part of such a reputable and Christ-like ministry.