Motorcycle and Misc.

Here is a motorcycle that I just started working on yesterday. It was a bit of a slack-off day as there is no real good reason to get this cycle working, yet I worked on it most of the day. Part of the reason for this is because most of the vehicles were out running errands so I had little to work on. I have to figure out a good time to work on them because they are used during the day. I may start working at 6am or so, but with the electricity not being on until 7:30 I may be limited. Anyway, I got this thing running yesterday by taking good parts off of three other cycles. It hadn't been run in years. I took it around the mission a little bit with Carter and Christopher on the back separately. It needs a little more work yet - it chokes and dies going up steep hills. It is a USAID vehicle (just like the four wheelers), so I am not sure that the Mission will be able to keep it. :-(


Last night was one of the worse nights for the dogs barking. They like to hang out by our place and bark. Closing the windows would do no good since the windows are like mini blinds of glass. I have a feeling that the director is tired of the dogs, too, and is waiting for the other missionary couple to come back so they can talk about the dogs - they are his dogs.

The director and his wife came over last night to talk about how things were going. They stayed for about two hours. We talked about what is currently going on at the mission and about and questions that we had. There are still plenty of things for us to learn, but we are doing very good in their eyes. They said that we are a breath of fresh air to them because of the busy, crazy stuff they have going on. They agreed with us in that it feels like we have been here for more than two weeks. The Lord has made a great match with us and all of them - we suspected this from the very beginning as we felt like we knew them all well.

Tina is doing well. Every morning she cleans the termite wings off the cupboards (they are a goofy insect). Last night she squished another cockroach (that makes three total). She must have gotten bitten somehow by something and now her ankle is swollen up. After two days it is no better and no worse. She says that it feels like the tendons and all the internal parts are sore. Her nose/cough/allergies have gotten better (there was a cold going around here when we first got here). Tina has cooked some new dishes, but we really haven't had any new food. There hasn't been too many new things to eat besides goat meat and various fruits. (Speaking of fruits, there are all sorts of fruit trees on the mission and everything is free for the picking.) Tina says that this is the hardest thing that she has done. I think most of that is because of the constant housework stuff and not having the best tools for the job and having to be more careful.

I hope you all are doing well! I thank each and every one of you who have donated to us to help us do the Lord's work here in Haiti. I do plan to send a note of appreciation to those who have donated. The only problem is that it might be later than normally expected because it can take up to a month or more for us to get the information about who donated. Please know that we appreciate all of your prayers and financial support! By the end of September, I will mail out a letter of how things are going here and what we are working on here as a Mission. There truly are great things happening here at the Baptist Haiti Mission and it affects many people throughout Haiti!