Day Four

Bienvenue from Port au Prince!

Connor and Ben checking in here. Everyone is getting to bed
relatively early as we are all exhausted, so the old guys put us on Blog duty.
We’re no good at this, so bear with us.

Day Four started much slower than the previous three as
exhaustion continues to take its toll on us. Our bodies are weak at this point
but every time we turn around we see the smiling children who will one day use
the classrooms we are preparing, and are reminded of the eventual fruits of our
labor. We are all relatively healthy, but keep our physical well-being in your
prayers!

Today brought much of the same things; hauling gravel, moving
cinderblocks and lumber, and slinging mortar. Despite the language barrier, we
are forming relationships with the Haitian workers and the children, and are
able to better communicate every day. We laughed a lot today, sometimes because
we joked with each other but often times because we were the subject of the
jokes between workers. We are learning some phrases in Creole and French and
are teaching our fellow laborers some English phrases. My (Connor) two years of
French in junior high are coming in handy!

All of our work thus far has been on the ground floor of the
school building, however there is a chance our work will move upstairs
tomorrow. This would mean instead of hauling buckets of mortar 50 yards, we
would be hauling them 100 yards and up a flight of stairs. We’d be lying if we
didn’t say we hope to stay working on the ground floor! We heard rumor of an
afternoon at the beach Saturday, so tomorrow may be our last full day of work
at the school. But work is far from done here in Haiti. There is still much to
be done at Source de la Grace but we have seen great progress this week. Keep
the Vaval family and Source de la Grace in your thoughts and prayers.

John found a biblical corollary to our project. In 2nd
Chronicles chapter 2 and 3 Solomon is building the temple. He had 153,600
workers; 70,000 to carry loads, 80,000 to quarry stones, and 3,600 as
supervisors to make the people work. If only we had that many hands in Haiti!

Au revoir,
Connor and Ben