Haiti Hecticness

Hello all! We have had a great last couple of days, we see something bizarre everyday. We have been having the weirdest flash storms lately. It will be cloudy and hot and then all of the sudden it will be raining cats and dogs. The odd feeling is it is still 90 degrees in the rain. It is hurricane season so it is to be expected to have weird weather. Gabe, Kevin, Willie and I are adjusting well to mostly everything, there is a lot to adjust too. The heat and the humidity is a huge thing to adjust too, we are just getting use to being wet all the time, in the morning, in the rain, when I sleep and definitely when we work… which is all the time.. The other thing that we are doing is we are learning creol…. I thought English was more prominent but creol is the language to know. Not knowing creol is proving to be super annoying because we don’t always have one of our translators with us. For example the driving situation is crazy, take everything that you have seen in movies about third world country driving and triple it… there is no laws at all, no dividing line….  We were driving in the back of our “tap tap” (which is a small truck with a camper and seating in the back to fit a lot of people)  we were driving and we turned left and a guy behind us went to pass us but he tried to pass us on the left, but we turned left… see the problem? So he ran into the back of us.. just a scratch but he broke his light on his truck… so we pull over and we stay in the back. Pastor John gets out and this guy that crashed into us thinks he was right and we were wrong… plus we are white so he thinks we will just pay him off…. John wont have that, so all of the sudden John is surrounded by a bunch of locals who want to see whats happening.. none of us speak creol.. so it was a very tense situation.. but it all got worked out, after an hour and a half waiting we had a translator come and we figured it out.. but it was weird!!  Being engulfed into a completely different culture is so odd but at the same time it is just fantastic.   Crescent City Foursquare Come to Haiti!!! You will have the time of your lives, you have no idea!!!!

Patrick, Kevin, Willie and Gabe

Oh Yah a big shout out to Mr.Carties Class!!

Crazieness

So yesterday was one of the most interesting days. We were for most of the day getting ready to put of a 20 by 40 foot tent which we will be living in. It was so hot that we had to be taking breaks every fifteen minutes. Around 2 oclock we saw some clouds rolling in and then all of the sudden there was 40+ winds and insane amounts of water. There was lighting and thunder, we were soaked within a matter of seconds. After camping out in the church anex we finally got out of it. The day was then over, everything was drenched and muddy... its still super muddy this morning. A new team rolled in last night and they will be going to the orphanage today and that will be awesome. We will be staying here getting the church ready for demolition, hopefully the new steel building will arrive soon. Hopefully we will be posting some pictures up within a couple of days, the internet is not very good here so uploading that kind of stuff is difficult. We miss you guys so much and keep us in your prayers.
Gabe, Willie, Kevin, Patrick

haiti

hey everybody we re here in haiti and we are just starting work for the day... it is really hot over here. we havent been here long but its really rad

We've arrived in San Francisco

It is now 5pm and we are all checked in and ready to take off from San Fran to New York. Unfortunetly our flight doesnt leave until 1030 pm.. so yah we have kinda of a wait.

Heading to the airport

We are leaving from Crescent City in the Morning at 7am and traveling to San Fransisco. We will fly from there to New York and then to Port-au-Prince. It is going to be a long day. Keep us in your prayers and thank you so much for your continuing support.

We have a date!!!

So we purchased our one way tickets to Port-au-Prince on Friday the 10 of September. We are leaving from San Francisco to New York then Haiti.  We are so happy to finally have a date we are taking off.  So if you haven't said your goodbyes make sure to get ahold of us.
-Patrick