Bugs, Water, and Creole Lessons

We have water! Praise the Lord. It seems like a small thing, but to us it is simply amazing to turn on the faucet and for water to come out. I think one or two have even dropped to their knees and praised the Lord, especially Amanda who has had to share a bathroom and "try" to keep it clean with 8 girls.

Granted, it's not exactly clean water (we have found a worm or two), but it's running out of the faucet nonetheless. We have since added clorox to the cistern and hope that will help with the creepy crawlies. We have also gone around the house and caulked all the holes that we could find trying to prevent the invasion of cockroaches, ants, and various other unidentified guests.

Thank you everyone for all the amazing advice about the bug issue! We took a trip into Port au Prince yesterday and stood in the bug isle trying to figure out what would help. Many of the things that were advised are nowhere to be found, but we've found various items that will hopefully help. We are already seeing improvement!

Amanda, Christelle, Naomi, Ron, and myself all drove into "town" and stopped along the way to look at a couch in a little shop along side the road. Seems many people are developing sore behinds (mostly the adults) from sitting on the tile floor. Please pray that we find something to sit on that is reasonably priced. We were trying to figure out how much the furniture was, but we realized that even if we could ask how much it was, we had no way of knowing what the answer was. We tried to get them to write down the price or type out the price on a calculator with hand motions and they looked us at and laughed. Yes, the white people with hand motions are very funny I'm sure. I would laugh if I were them as well!

We have creole lessons again today. We have someone helping us learn creole three days a week. We're trying to practice our creole, but it is not easy. For Naomi on the other hand, she seems to be picking it up rather quickly. It's funny to watch her in the car. She waves like a princess out the window and then also randomly speaks creole to people as we drive by.

We stopped for gas yesterday and the guard with the shotgun was smiling at Naomi as she "practiced" her creole. It's funny to watch. I wonder what do they think about this little blonde girl in the car? I wonder what is going through Naomi's mind as well? It all seems so normal to her to walk up the mountain, wave at people with shotguns, smash bugs on the floor, oh and even pee on the mountain. We left church the other day and the bathrooms were locked, so I told Naomi that she'd need to go outside and she looked at me like I had lost my mind and said the cows pees in the grass. Naomi tends to be a bit of a princess. I said, yes, and now you need to pee in the grass or we'll have to wait until the others get out of church and we can get a key. She simply said, "Ok" and squatted down behind the building.

What an interesting life: By the time she was three, she had already traveled all over the continental USA, flown to Hawaii, been out of the country numerous times, had been frozen in a straw, shipped across the country to be implanted, been hospitalized for two months, had heart surgery, and now lives in another country and is learning multiple languages.....Wow! What a story to be told someday!

Thank you for your continued prayers!! We greatly appreciate the love and support we have received and continued to receive.