It's gettting warmer

The last few days have been really warm, and the hurricane season is coming. It rained really hard last night, which helped to cool down the night. Today is going well, but with this warm weather it makes it harder to enjoy each moment, because it makes us more sluggish. We took the children for a nice long walk this morning, which was beautiful, and I was impressed by the little ones because they made it up a big rocky hill. Four more volunteers are coming today, which I am excited for to help make more conversation and fun on the balcony during the day and in the evenings. The volunteers who are here now seem to be quiet during meal times, but that might also be because it is our down time for the day. They are such a blessing, and I have enjoyed getting to know them.

On Sunday we went to the Haitian church with the kids. It was a great experience. We were told to dress nicely, because they take pride in their clothing on Sunday mornings. It is sad though, because if they don't have nice clothing..they can't attend. As we walked down with the children and the nanny....i saw that she had flip flops on as well, so i thought we would be fine with our flip flops. Well before we neared the corner of the church she had us stop, and I was like what is she doing? She pulled out her really nice shoes, and I looked to the other volunteers and was like...well i guess there isn't anything we can do now....and it wasn't like we wouldn't stick out already. They said that they give grace to American...:) It was really warm in the church, because there were about 300 hundred people packed into benches. We didn't have a translator so we guessed what was happening, but thankfully the nanny beside us was helping us turn our Bibles to the right chapter. I caught a few words here and there, but I enjoyed observing others worshiping the Lord, and listening to their beautiful language. The worship director's song was up front with his dad, and he saw us come in and he eyed us up as he inched closer and closer. Eventually when he was pretty close I reached out my hands to him and told him he could sit on my lap. He sat there for about an hour, but most of that time many people were looking at me with smiles, because they probably were thinking of all the people to sit down on..he had to choose a blan (which is white person in Creole'). It made my day! The service was about 3 hours longs...9-12. I enjoyed this opportunity.