Saturday, December 1, 2018

End of November.


Another week draws to an end with the start of December.

Fritzlin and I completed 6 weeks of school during the month of November.

On Tuesday we moved a second truck load of plants from the neighbor’s to our new shade-cloth nursery. 

In the house, the kitchen curtains are done and hanging and the bathroom floor tile is in place, awaiting grout. 
Due to very cloudy days our internet has been very limited this week, why I’ve not updated the blog. 

I tried to join our on-line mission leadership meeting on Thursday but the sun only cooperated for less than 5 minutes. 

Protests continued in Port-au-Prince and other parts of the country at the start of the week, but we are very thankful things calmed down and Cory was able to travel to Port on Thursday. 

He left the house before 5 a.m. with one of the guys and they returned a bit past 10 p.m. 

Their day included: traffic jams, bank, stop at Immigration to pick up our Haitian residential visas; getting Cory’s renewed driver’s license; picking up 2 boxes shipped in Sept. from Michigan; picking up mail [first since August due to some issues with getting our new Missionary Flights Port au Prince mail box], mailing our newsletters; buying 2 mattresses; food shopping; picking up clips to attach the fence to the metal posts and given a box of school books to deliver to Agape house…and more hours of sitting in traffic (street markets still jamming traffic after dark so the drive home took almost 5 hours, instead of 3 1/2 without bad traffic).

The guys worked hard on the terraces and the parking area this week. It’s very encouraging to see the rocks moving from piles around the house and yard and being put into retaining walls where plants will soon be growing. 

The guys also worked on the path from the house down to the nursery area. We plan to extend the path to a few other areas including where we plan to put a fire pit for visiting with friends. 

Please continue to pray for Haiti’s political leaders as they try to work out solutions to so many complicated problems that continue to frustrate the people and make them very vulnerable to folks trying to stir up trouble. The only true answer is God’s love. 

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