I know it was Memorial Day in the U. S. and what a great day to remember those that have served. It was a memorable day in Haiti as our team working alongside the Gilbertsville team completed our third rubble house. Franklin and his 2 children Kevin and Martina will be living there. They lost their home in the earthquake and had been living in a makeshift home consisting of tarp walls and scrap lumber. He was so thankful and appreciative of our work, and Kevin worked on the job site every minute we did. We had met Kevin last year around the Siloe school site.
He was very sweet and funny, making faces and cutting up with us all week long.
We were scheduled to play baseball this pm, but that will have to wait until tomorrow. We all wanted to finish the rubble house first and then a rain shower came so we "recalculated" our schedule.
Also tomorrow, we will likely make some more basket cage walls for the next teams coming in for their rubble houses. We can't start a 4th house because the foreman for that site has been injured. We pray for his quick recovery in time for them to stay on schedule with the next team coming into the country.
This evening we went for a walk downtown with Tiga and FINALLY got one of those widely talked about local smoothies. It was worth the wait and so refreshing to us all after the heat and work of the day.
But we are already talking about the sad part - Leaving on Wednesday morning. This has been such a wonderful experience for us all and it is going to be very hard to leave.
Thank you church for allowing us to be your missionaries here. We may be blessing some with our work and ministry here, but we have all been touched immensely and blessed beyond measure.
Good night-
Haiti 6- Jay, George, Donna, Ann, Woody and Wesley
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