Sharing "Our Haiti"

Several weeks back, I told Orrin that Gpa and Gma Zimm were going to be coming to Haiti.  "Our Haiti?" he asked.  Yes, our Haiti, bud :)  It's pretty exciting to get visitors from home to come see "our Haiti" and we were super thrilled to get some more this past week, pulled together on short notice.

When we were in Dumay, David was scrambling to get some more workers together for the second week of the solar install project (more on that a different post) due to some various reasons including a family emergency making some other team members unable to come.  So...he asked Lucas (who was in Dumay at the time), "Do you wanna come back to the Hospital in 3 weeks?"  I was like, Why are you even asking him?  That's just crazy.  But we were really excited when he let us know he could come and also had several others from home that wanted to come too!  The group ended up being Lucas, Arlen, Jaylin, Tim and Myra.

They came in on Saturday evening, and we had church Sunday.  They hit the work Monday-Wednesday (that's all I can say now, it's top secret :) ) and finished up Wednesday at lunchtime!  We were able to hang out a couple times in the evenings and that was a lot of fun.  Cassia got to stay up late and she was finally so tired one night, she just laid down on the floor :)

David couldn't believe that it had all come together so well, and he kept going on and on about how awesome it was for everyone to come, and how God just really worked everything out for everyone to come on such short notice, and he was so thrilled how fast the work got done, and it was so great to have people from home, and how we hadn't all known each other super well before but we got along great, and how he really hadn't thought that the project would be getting done as fast as it had, and....for the first time ever, I about pinched him to tell him to stop talking.  But I guess that shows how much it meant to him to have the people from home come and help out and spend time with us.

There were so many people at the guest house that week that we were able to keep Tim and Myra at our house!  It was really nice to have some company in our home.  Myra went up to help out but she also spent some time with us at home, which helped my (would have been) week at home alone with the kids go way better.  Orrin really enjoyed the company (and Myra's phone :) ).  

So, thanks guys for making the huge effort to come to help us out.  I know it was really short notice, but you blessed us so much.  Other than a hike to the hydro, we didn't go out and do a whole lot of sight-seeing since this week was really focused on the project that had to be done, but it was really great to have some people from home to come see how we live.  Thanks for coming and seeing "our Haiti", and we extend the invitation to others from home to come see it too!!