Faith and Sweat

Day 2

The excitement is very high and we haven't even finished eating breakfast.  We are really going to get a lot cleaned and piled up today in anticipation for the garbage truck tomorrow.   The amount of garbage is quite excessive.  There are many metal bed frames all over the place some look usable and some she is saving for recycling, she will actually get some money for them.  So we separate all the garbage into piles close to the entry door.

The contractor and carpenter have not arrived yet so we really get cleaning.  Then the sound of a large truck coming down the road.  He pulls in with a bed full of bags of cement.  In the end we unload over 100, 94 pound bags of cement.  The delivery guys watch as Christy joins all of us men and at first attempt to shake her off but in the end they are calling her wonder woman.

Just after we finish another truck comes with a load of sand that they will mix with the cement for the finish coat on the interior walls.

Elizabeth tells us that she really wants the house done as soon as we can.  Just after that message the contractor and carpenter show up.  They get a few of us going helping in the house.  There are windows and doors to get set in and then cemented over.  We are constantly digging or moving sand or dirt around.  Sometimes it feels like busy work but we have already gotten so much done.  We have a long ways to go though.

The kids start arriving home from school just after one.  They go to three different private schools.  As they walk through the door, they run around and find all of us.  They are shaking our hands, giving high fives and fist bumping everyone.  Lunch is already waiting for them, so they quick change out of their uniforms and sit down for lunch.

As they are eating I am taking pictures, talking with them and playing with them.  Which in turn gets them in trouble for not eating their lunch.....I guess some things are the same no matter what country you are in.

After lunch they really open up to us.  They are really loving getting their pictures taken.  The better part is that after I take a picture, they come running over to see what the pictures look like on the display.  We also get the jump ropes out and they are really good.  Sometimes two and even three of them at a time.  It looks like so much fun, that I decide to join in.  The soccer ball comes out and quite a bunch of us gather to kick it around.

Their curiosity is quite funny.  They pull my cap off and rub my hair.  I personally think they were baffled at the lack of hair.  Tattoos.  The kids are really not sure about them.  They look at them with such confused looks as they stare and rub them.

Tonight we are treated to a dinner in the entertainment district.  It's pretty exciting.  We are about half way up a mountain in an open air restaurant that's got two floors.  It's really cool.  Who knew that pizza would be awesome in Haiti.  But then again how can pizza not be good any where.

Our hearts ache, but we always have joy.  We are poor, but we give spiritual riches to others.  We own nothing, and yet we have everything.  2 Corinthians 6:10