November 9, 2008

went to Clean Water for Haiti, Chris and Leslie Rollings ministry today for mission meeting. They had a pair of short term missionaries there gathering info to take back to their church for fund raising and prayer. Earl and Ron seemed very nice guys. Hurricane Paloma was in Cuba last night and today, and the shore line at Clean Water had waves I have not seen there before, big crashing waves. last night the waves came up so high it brought sand into their yard. a few houses down from them their are some well off folks that have....had....a big power boat. the waves last night apparently grounded the boat, flipped it over and they had to have it hauled away for repair today. listening to the waves actually was quite pleasant for me though, as we sang and worshipped. it reminded me of Florida and the teenagers and how peaceful that beach was at night. so it was a very enjoyable time. Chris met everyone at the door and said "did you hear about yesterday?". and we looked at each other and said, "no". then he said, "oh, well, Leslie is pregnant". and APPARENTLY they had agreed to tell everyone when we were all seated together. Leslie was slightly miffed about being cut out of the news cycle, but she took it gracefully. so congratulations to Chris and Leslie Rollings! they have adoptive daughter Olivia, and another on the way. good thing they're young..... :) then on the ride home, Haiti set me back in my place. as we were coming down the road for the turn up the hill to the house here, a group of young males saw the truck and shouted out a.....greeting, sort of. and as I was the only one in the back of the truck, I smiled and waved. which prompted them to....greet me some more. I can laugh this stuff off now, though it does make me cautious about being on the street. just have to watch your step here. hope all is well with everyone at home. pray if you will that it will get warm about Dec 17th or so and stay that way until, say Jan 7th or so. much appreciated! bye for now