Thursday and Friday, June 10th, and 11th
Sorry I didn’t post last night. I’m just going to do a double post tonight.
Yesterday we finished laying the block on the wall at the back of the compound. All of us “young people” had a great time hanging out with the younger Haitian guys who were helping with the work. There is a bit of a language barrier but we could understand each other for the most part. It’s wonderful to see how God has allowed us to communicate with the Haitians, especially cause Joey and Emily know a good bit of French. They’ve been pretty helpful when we don’t know how to say something.
We missed devotions on Wednesday cause everyone wanted to get to bed early because most of us weren’t feeling well, but our devotion last night was great. We sang, read from Provers 2, and laughed a WHOLE lot. 
Miss Donna took some Advil PM and couldn’t stop laughing. I learned so many more weirdly funny jokes from her than I EVER wanted to 
. It was great fun and good to see that she was doing much better.
As for today, wow, what an awesome day! We went back to Cite Soleil where we were going to build the house for the pastor and several church members. He decided to just have us build the house on the land they already own so in the pictures you will see us digging the footers in front of their church. On that note, we managed to get alot done. All of the footers are now dug; and cement, sand (a.k.a. dirt), and rebar were all delivered. The gravel didn’t end up coming until we were all packed up and leaving. So the next team, who is coming down tomorrow, will finish pouring the foundation and laying the block for the house.
The Haitians we were working with today are the same we were worked with on the wall. The idea is to train up a team who can build according to U.S. standards and then they can teach others Haitians to do the same. Our team members are: John (the foreman), Immanuel, Puchoun (pronounced Pooshawn), Michael, and Wilkins. They are some hard workers!
While the guys were out working, Emily and Donna were inside the church with the women and children, singing and sharing God’s love with them. It was so great to be working outside listening to them singing together in English and Creole. So cool! The Bullens also had some money that they used to buy these people some food–they hadn’t eaten for a couple days.
And today Miss Donna went a little camera crazy, but I can only upload a few of the images. So check them out below.
