ONE STEP FORWARD---TWO STEPS BACKWARD...........

white cement, powder paint &scoring makes a tile look 

almost finished with downstairs floors

crunch.. crunch.. hum.. sounds like the floor is cracking underneath.. the cement was too  dry underneath and we are chipping it up, except one room, and a toilet room... 

Yes we're doing OK. just thought we might move in the bottom part of the house, so we wouldn't have to travel so much. The weather has been very warm 92 degrees or so, very humid and having some rains. Philip has been installing the stairsteps and the workers are laying up a block wall at the stairs. We hate to do that but will  give us some  privacy and not so handy for thieves. We know if they are determined, it won't stop them.

laying up the block  wal, willl have a small depot under stairs, the plants in the foreground is OKRA - kalalou in Creole they use in sauce for on rice & beans--not too bad!   

 

 We have a team from Tenn. coming the last of June to help put up Styrofoam walls. we hope to move in the bottom so we can get started everyday at a decent hour and us girls can cook & paint downstairs Hope the boys can set the walls and pray the weather is good- close to cyclone season!!! Come on down!

 One afternoon I drove Kayla & Amy to downtown Port to a big grocery, before  Kayla finished her term here. This is what the girls chose  to do, it's pretty special when you haven't been to a big store in awhile.  These girls are our upstairs  neighbors. They are from the States & Canada, who help in the Holderman Orphanage. Well, it took us 3 hours to go approx. 20 mile, then it decided to downpour when we were  getting close to the grocery. I guess Haitians stop driving when its downpouring. We was on a steep incline and to the right us we had a flowing, muddy, trashy river. Kayla thought inner-tubing would be a blast ( won't try to think of the color of the river.) All the cars preceded to get in our left lane and we just set for awhile. we finally got to the grocery and shopped for awhile, loaded up and drove down the street to eat. (Philip called us periodically to see if we was OK) We started home in the dark and at two of the intersections the water was very deep and it must've just down-poured again . Philip said our little car was gas and could stall if the water got to deep, so he was glad I didn't try the river on the incline to get by all the cars . Yes, the Lord was watching over us we arrived back home at 9:30 and it only took 1 hour to get back. Thank you Jezi!!

Hard to see but it was quite the river coming down the mountain and the people still out in the storm and on Moto's 

 

Enjoyed Saturday at International Faith Missions, where Aaron & Wendy Lavy. They invited a lot of missions for a Bible Study- 1st Chapter of Mark. Had a very inspiring song service led by Tom Mohler. An very good study led by Andy ? an  English teacher, teaching Haitians at the school of the Redeemed, from Goshen ,IN. We then enjoyed a fellowship meal together. Different missions host this Bible Study in the spring through the fall. Maybe someday.... we can too. 

IFM is by a salt lake and it keeps raising (it doesn't have a outlet)- so they had to move out of these two houses and may have to relocate!!!

Enjoying the spring tree blossoms - Flanbwayan Tree- Beautiful orange blossom

Somedays the sun is just too hot on our heads !!!! Grario & Philip  

Love to all and Thank you for your Prayers and Support.. until another time.. Bethany