It has been almost 4 months since my last blog. I didn't drop off the deep end...just seems as though there are never enough hours in the day. I will bullet point what has been going on in our lives and try to catch up.
April 2012
- CBH Pastors/family conference.
- Robert Snyder team of 10
- Our Haitian lawyer says we need to construct a wall at least across the front of the compound. So many are moving close to here in land give-aways.
- David Jr and Betsy bring filming crew and also Henry and Lorell Crabtree
- Crabtree's installed tankless water heaters in all houses, VQ and Conference Center Kitchen
- Heady's flew to US the last week of April for GO Board meetings, video taping, et
- Took a couple of days at Crabtree's lake house and did some fishing
- Kids surprised me again with a belated 70th Birthday party in the US
- Went to French Lick for a night to celebrate our 52nd wedding anniversary
- Visited individual supporters and met with mission directors of supporting churches, etc in Arkansas and Texas. Had a great 5 days on the road
- Had some time with grandchildren in Louisville
- Caught up on doctors appt....eyes, hearing aids, back, etc.
- Drove to Tupelo on Sunday June 3rd to start Mission Orientation Training on June 4th. This was the largest MOT we've had with 18 new missionaries. Finished on June 8th
- Packed and returned to Haiti on June 12th with Casey Dean. She stayed with us 5 1/2 weeks.
- Had a team from Wyoming already here. Great group.
- Sam Massey and team of 6 arrived (June 14th) to put a new electrical service in the old depot, put new service to the Vehicle Maintenance building and the new Youth meeting center.
- June 19th Kayla Kirkpatrick came to intern with us for a month. Bethany Morris flew in with her to stay a week.
- Had 38 Kindergarten graduates and their teachers for a day out on the compound. How funny....we did some water slides and water sprinklers. Try teaching that to children who have never played in water before. Served all a nice lunch
- June 22nd New Work Fellowship arrived with a team of 12...did lots of maintenance work and a 3 day VBS in TiTanyen.
- Had 4 men that needed to overnight here on their way out of the country.
- June 23rd. Kindergarten graduation for 38 students plus graduation for the Afternoon School. They really put on a very nice program
- June 25th...day out for Morning and Afternoon school children. Played soccer, basketball, etc plus served them all a nice lunch.
- Ben Scott, who has been coming to Haiti since he was 6 years old, came with another group. They drove here to spend the day with us and have lunch. Great to spend time with this group.
- Josh Brumley flew out with the New Work group. He is going out to spend his senior year in Colorado. We will certainly miss him. He has blessed our lives for over 9 years
- Eaton First Free church arrived with 33 on June 29th. Great group. Very disciplined and hard workers. They did a 3 day Youth Camp and then spent one day pouring cement at the Youth center building.
- Robyn Rone from our home town arrived on June 30th to spend a week with us.
Good morning how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Haiti? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Haiti in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28902 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez