TG dominates the day

P.S Happy Birthday Mom – Love Hannah banana

To start the morning we started with team breakfast and a letter from Mrs. Wysocki, which included a beautiful acrostic poem. After the breakfast we went up the mountain to Grace Village. Arriving at Grace Village we were greeted by some Transition Program children who were learning a valuable skill in cleaning and packaging fish from the aquaponic tanks. After that we taught and made Rainbow Loom Bracelets with the children of Grace Village. (Shout out to the parents and families who donated the supplies.) Then after making bracelets with the children from Grace Village, and few Transition Program kids, we then dismissed the Grace Village children in order to talk with the Transition Program kids about teamwork and communication through many tasks. First, we all sat in a circle and went around saying our name, how old we were, and our favorite food. It worked well in breaking the ice and making the kids more comfortable with the missionaries from TG. After the ice breaker we embarked on playing a group game called “Human Knot”. The Haitian children thought it was silly at first and that it looked difficult, but after the students of TG did an example game they quickly understood and we broke up into four groups. Even though it was hard to communicate with them due to the language barrier, our translator Bo Bo and Kayleen did their best job to help explain everything and help move things along. After a few different games, we all went outside and played soccer together. Next we went to visit a few more elderly people we had missed on Thursday. First, we visited Marie who is about 104 years old and still strong as a bull. We washed her feet, gave her lotion, and then sang and prayed for her. Then we visited Jud John Paul who is 22 years old and was paralyzed after a seizure at a young age. He is not able to speak, but we talked with his mother who takes care of him. She asked that we would pray for him and keep him in our thoughts. Our next and final visit was to Edmond who was blind in both eyes and couldn’t move well due to his old age. We washed his feet but were unable to give him lotion or a food package because we had given them all away previously. However, a team visited him earlier in the week and gave him supplies that we were unable to. After swimming we had a splendid taco dinner and then the best part of the night was next. Jean who is the director of the Guest Houses took us up to the patio and taught us to salsa dance. Tomorrow we have church in the morning at Grace Village and then we will be off to a spring break “surprise”. Thanks to our prayer partners and all of you back home supporting us.

Love,

Joleen Johnson, Sarah Lindstrom, and Jake Beckman