Another Haiti Update

Here is the day's Haiti update.  I have not posted all of the emails out of respect for those that they are helping.  Also, we want to wait to hear some of the stories first hand and not through email.  I thought that todays would be nice to share though.

Today was another amazing day in Haiti. We basically went back to visit and help all the people that Jeremy helped last time he was here. While doing that we were able to touch many peoples lives.

To start out the day we took Samuel to the embassy to work on his visa. Its such a long process, but hopefully it will work out soon. That took up the entire morning until about noon.

After we left the embassy we went and met with one of jeremys contacts that works in one of the large tent cities. She works with world vision, which distributes food to places that need it. There were people from Africa and Haiti there that we were working with. When I get back to the states I hope I can work with them; they are an incredible asset to have here. When we left there we left with jeremys friend as well. We stopped at one of our contacts house to visit. Their house happened to overlook some pretty massive destruction. There is a picture below. On the way out we ran into her mother and was able to give her some medicine she needed.

After that visit we went to the chapel for a safe place to rest. Right when we walked in we ran into judes sister! (he was the bell hop from the hotel). After sunday we figured that we would not be able to see her. I'm telling you its amazing that out of six million people that live here, we ran into the one that we needed to. We were also able to pay for an entire year of her childs schooling. These are people that are trying their hardest to get by, so when we can help them like that, it really is amazing.

After we left the chapel we went to a little babies house that Jeremy had helped. She got burnt by a motorcycle a few days ago, so we were able to bandage that up and make sure it was sterile. Again, any small help makes a huge difference in peoples lives.

After that we decided to head home in case things got ugly. The decision about weycliff did not happen today, so there was no need, but security comes first. When we got home we were able to give the laurents blessings. We found out they have been married for less then three months, and yet they are the most incredible hosts ever. I'm so so thankful to them.

Today at dinner Samuel said that the lord promises to send angels to help us in our lives. He also said that as we try to serve him, he will use us as his angels for others. Looking back at today and this week I can really see the wisdom in these words. There is no way that anybody could plan some of the things that happen here. I know it may not seem like that through the lense of an email, but experiencing it is so different.