Agape Flights

Agape Flights is an organization that delivers mail and packages to missionaries in the Caribbean.  It's a super blessing for us to be able to receive mail and order things from the states that we need (or sometimes things that just remind us of home :) ).  We were really blessed to receive a turkey and a box of "fixin's" for Thanksgiving...donated by Agape!  I'm writing this post to say thanks to Agape for all they do for us, to those of you who have sent us letters in the mail already, and to make sure our address is out there in time for Christmas cards :)

Our address is:

C/O Agape Flights CAY 27783

100 Airport Ave

Venice, FL 34285

Normal mail is just a regular stamp, since it goes to Florida, and then we pay a flat fee to Agape no matter how much mail we get...so might as well use it ;)  Packages over 1 pound cost $4/pound to fly from Florida to Haiti, so we tend to think twice about what we send over.

We're looking forward to getting Christmas pics of you all, to remind us of friends and family back home.  We probably won't be sending out a normal Christmas pic this year...since it's a little more complicated to get it back the other direction....And with a new baby coming in January, Lordwilling, maybe we'll just email and post a Happy New Year pic later on!

Welcome

Last week we had the blessing of welcoming a new family to our Bonne Fin family!  We are so excited to have Kurt and Joan Platter and their children, Reggie, Toby, Hadley, and Brenna come join us in our work!  Orrin took to the kids right away, and they were running around the yard and rolling down the hills together :)  We had them over one evening for snacks, and enjoyed our time together.  We wish their family much grace and many blessings as they adjust to life here.  So thankful for God's working in their lives!

Another welcome blessing in our lives here was the experience of a REAL rainy season!!  Haiti has been in a severe drought, after having gone through several rainy seasons with virtually no rain.  But last week it started raining, and pretty much hasn't stopped :)  Even church was cancelled on Sunday because of the torrential downpour...we got 3 inches by 8am, and it rained hard all day.  (Think blizzard conditions for a comparison :) ).  So we put on our coats, raise our umbrellas, wish for boots, dry our laundry inside, and praise God!

“God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.” -Job 37:5-6

Language Lessons

David and I started language lessons with a Haitian man named Falens, who speaks very good English and is a great teacher.  We each have an hour lesson in the mornings M-F.  It has been nice that we know a little already, and aren't starting out knowing nothing, but we have a long ways to go!!!  The first week or two was kind of frustrating, for two reasons.  1 - I can't understand the difference in how they pronounce e, e (with accent), and en.  Or a, a accent, and an.  All sounds the same to me :(  And 2 - I have not known nor cared what a predicate or pronoun was since 8th grade English!!  David says he never did know what they were :)  So, after I got over my bad attitude of having to be back in school again, things seem to be going better.  It's really fun to see progress and have more words to use when talking to the people who come to my door, or who we see when we are out walking.  Makes it feel more like the lessons are working...and that's our main goal...to speak Creole!