Sunday, March 07, 2010

Restoration Ministries and Bassin Bleu

Yesterday brought one of the greatest feelings i've ever had! We (me, Caleb Thomas, Caleb Mide, Logan Spencer) walked into Tent City which is an old futbol field turned refugee camp. There were people from all over Haiti there. We met Joseph who took us up the mountain today. Anyways, we walked through and all the kids were shouting, "BLANC!" Which is "white" of course. And they tried to touch us. So I let them. Soon enough I was fist-pounding atleast thirty little Haitian kids and they were screaming! I guess they just don't see many white people around. In fact, besides the U.N. and other various military I've seen about 3 other white people. They just don't walk around. This frustrates me. So we walk around and let little kids touch us :) Gotta love antibacterial!! Those kids made me so happy! I have some pictures of them soon.

Today was church and it was incredible. They sang for at least an hour! And they were extremely loud!! I loved it. After that we got some crazy taxi drivers and scaled the mountain to go to Bassin Bleu. Which was incredible. It was a series of waterfalls that we jumped off of. Joseph who we met at the Tent City was our guide. Lunch was a half grapefruit. Dinner was rice, beans, and I'm not even sure what the other stuff was...pig feet maybe...It was great and my bowels are intact!! Thank you Jesus.

Tomorrow we are supposed to start working on Caleb Mide's home. Right now they are in tents in their yard because the house is not structurally sound.

I'm trying to be brief because I don't want to be on the internet for too long.

I love anyone who is reading this and anyone who is not. Thanks for praying!

Oh yea, we ran into a tree with four guys on a scooter and I stabbed my food. Good story. Everyone laughed at us, It was great.

Much Love,

Bryan

4 comments:

Timothy Szendel said...

would like to know more about stabbing your 'food' (foot?)...

dad

Anonymous said...

would like to know more about stabbing your 'food' (foot?)...

dad

Timothy Szendel said...

by the way, I just finished doing my taxes...didn't realize how much Erin was worth as a tax deduction.

erin.rapp said...

What food did you stab?

I'm glad I was a good tax deduction for you Dad...! very random that you mentioned that on here though... haha!