Haiti Life!!!

Bonswa!!

Sorry it has taken me so long to update! Cassidy and I are officially living in Pignon!!! WOOHOO! We have had a great couple days and we are so grateful for all the prayers that you have been praying! Thank you! :)

While we were on the plane I was thinking about my first trip to Haiti. Literally every leg of that trip (from Cedar Falls to Spencer, Spencer to Omaha, Omaha to Florida, Florida to Haiti) I was thinking to myself "it's okay, you can still back out now, you're not there yet!" When we landed on the runway in Cap-Haitian that first time I thought, "well, now I officially can't back out." I was thinking about that in the plane on this trip because backing out never even came into my mind as an option this time. Leaving was the weirdest feeling I have ever had though. It was like my body and mind were like "okay time to freak out, you're MOVING TO HAITI!" but my soul, heart, and my gut were like "this is going to be awesome, this is where you are meant to be!" I had this total peace and comfort and I can only explain it like that because I know that every one of the prayers you prayed for us that day were answered! We were totally in Jesus's hands and I could feel it, His peace has never been so real! :)

We got into the country just fine even though I was freaking out about that a little! We got comfortable Saturday night and unpacked and hung out with our Haitian friends and learned a little Kreyol. (Wi Wi!)

Sunday we went to church up at Guimby - Spencer Hope is one of the churches that sponsors this school so it was fun to see all those familiar faces. We had to walk across the little river to get to church because the roads were too bad to drive on - it felt amazing!! :)

Monday we sat at our table the WHOLE day and wrote out sheets for the kids in the 'Thrive for 5' program and the Pella Christian after school program. Woody (our wonderful co-worker) was so great, he already went out and found the 122 kids in the Thrive for 5 program and the 127 kids in the after school program. So we had to transfer that information to other sheets and then today we went out to the towns and got all the rest of the information about their families, parents financial situation, favorite subjects, etc. - all things their sponsors would like to know. We got to ride motorcycles out there and it was a blast riding around on those things!!! :) We are officially Haitian biker babes!!

Not totally sure what we have planned for the rest of the week, and even if we had it planned out it would probably change. :) Just wanted to update everyone and let you know that things are going GREAT! Cassidy and I both feel so at peace here and we know in our heart of hearts that this is where we are supposed to be!! I cannot thank all my family and friends enough for all the prayers that you have prayed! Like I said - we can feel them! Bondye Bon! (God is good!!)

Something I am the most thankful for today: Woody as a co-worker!
New Kreyol word of the day: fou (crazy!) :)

Thanks again! (Mesi!)
Goodnight!!! (Bon nwit!)
Tampico