Sunday, January 18, 2009

Almost over

Greetings from a hot HATS Compound. We just returned from Luckners where we had supper on the roof, picnic style. We took sandwiches, tuna and peanut butter and jam, cookies and Luckner supplied the drinks. There were 18 of us and we had a great time. It was great to spend time with Luckner and for people to get to know him a little better. Tomorrow is going to be a very busy hot day here so most went straight to bed to be ready to face tomorrow. Ed just got some more iodine...Don you are not here so Ed is the receiver of the iodine this trip. I have gotten the bottle for him many times this past 2 weeks.
After work tomorrow we plan to spend a little time with the Haitian workers and give them some clothes for their children and or wives. We do not know yet how we are going to Port Au Prince on Tuesday but I am sure it will all work out tomorrow.
Church was good with Pastor Dennis preaching again and Luckner translating. It started out slow (due to the fact we started at 7 AM.....well that was the time we were told it would start) but people didn't come until 7:30 or later, so we started about 7:40 with people arriving all the way through until 9:15 AM when we were leaving to start work.
Faith and I and Karen gave out clothes to a bunch of needy children that Luckner sent over after church. Most were delighted but one teenage girl had a very hard time finding something to fit her. She left with the others but she had wanted something that didn't fit so wasn't quite as happy as all the others.
Karen just screamed so we are all wondering "what did Dickie do now". I think he set off a fire cracker that Josiah had here at Christmas time. Maybe that is not a smart thing to do here without letting security know that it is a firecracker and not someone shooting on the compound. Dickie has played many tricks on Karen these last 2 weeks so we are all used to her screaming.
Faith, Karen Dickie and I are going down to spend a little time with the kids before bed time. I think our bed time is much earlier than the kids. There are only 5 of us left up at 8:50 PM.
They are gone without me so I must run.
Sandra

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