First off, sorry that I haven't updated this in a while. I haven't had internet and the past two weeks have been absolutely crazy! Secondly, this might be kind of long or I will make it into two..still deciding.
The reason for the title is because this was the ONLY thing that anyone in my group knew how to say (other than Zach who speaks fluent Creol), which means 'good morning' and 'good afternoon', it was pretty funny because we think the kids made fun of us for not knowing anything! Going to Haiti was one of the best weeks of my life. I got to experience things in my life that people can't even imagine unless they see it. When we first flew into Port Au Prince it was a little nerve wracking, we had a police escort us through the walk way and to our cars, not because it was needed, just as an extra safetly procaution. Our intern leader, Zach, grew up in Haiti and we decided that he basically runs the country of Haiti, he knows EVERYONE! That made everyone feel better knowing that Zach knew what he was doing and where he was going. We drove about 2 1/2 hours away from the capital to our hotel, and we stayed at an extremely nice place. My window in my room looked out into the ocean, we had running water, and the food was amazing! We worked about an hour away from our hotel up in the mountains. We helped the community of Shadrack build a couple of latrines. How the 410 Bridge works (the organization that we went with) is a push-pull philosophy. We want them to pull us to where they want to be going in their community, not us pushing them to where they should be going. We work along side of the people in that community to reach a common goal. My favorite part about the trip was getting to work with all of the kids. It was so amazing to hang out with them, hold them and love on them. One day I got the opportunity to make a lesson to teach to a lot of the members in the community. In that lesson we acted out David and Goliath and the Good Samaritan, we got to reinforce God's love for them. One evening we got to meet a Haitian pastor who has been doing ministry in Haiti for 52 years, he told us that we need to be praying for Haiti that they learn and don't forget God's love, and that is the most important thing that they need. On our second to last day there we got to go to Port Au Prince and look around. There is still so much devestation from the earthquake last year and it was really sad to see all of the tent communities. On the last day there we got the chance to go to the top of a mountain and have quiet time. God is so amazing and spoke to me through a book in the bible that I have never read before, Habakkuk. The verse said "Look at the nations and watch-and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe." Habakkuk 1: 5 I was questioning how there could be so much poverty and destruction in this country but God showed me through this passage and the people that we worked with that God is doing amazing things in Haiti that we can't even believe. The people there gave me so much hope because of their positive attitudes even when they had so little. It was one of the best weeks of my life and would absolutely love to go back for a longer period of time.
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