Mid-Week Tiredness

Hey All!

Today was an exciting day here in La Gonave. We started out by thinking we would finish up the man’s house we were working on yesterday, but quickly found out that was not an option. Apparently there were some “demonstrations” in the town square that we have to walk right through to work on the house. A demonstration is political unrest, rioting rather. Today some unhappy folk lit parts of a school on fire and threw some rocks through a window of a church. I am not sure how destructing the only buildings they have constructed is really helping the issue…but that is how they feel their voices are heard. Anyways, because of those events we decided to stay on the Wesleyan compound with the gates closed. We finished up a couple projects here for the missionaries. Rachel G and I got the awesome opportunity to travel up the Mountain with Lowell (a missionary man who is the leader of community health alliance here in La Gonave) to a “city” called Fontina…my spelling may be wrong…We dropped some concrete off at the top of the mountain and got to see a school. With so many problems it was interesting to see that they definitely still valued education. This trip took us about three hours to go five miles up the mountain and five miles down. It was SOOO rocky and SOOO bumpy and lots of fun, but I am glad we and the truck made it back in one piece! The others stayed here and worked hard! They got so much done and all got safely down from a rough roof! Your children are safeJ

Today was one of the best days with the orphanage we have had yet. The children seemed a little tired and so were we; but everyone was happy with holding babies and loving on the children. We made tambourines and bracelets for the craft. They had a snack and we played outside but it was relaxed. We picked them up in a truck for safety reasons and they loved it! They never get to ride in a car, even if it is only 20 of them piled in the back of a truck. The children are so wonderful and beautiful. I am pretty sure everyone here wants to adopt…including Jason. If only it was that easy…

Thank you for tuning in and I hope we are able to update this more in the upcoming days! We love you and will see you soon! Thank you for your prayers…today we saw how much we need them!

Taylor and the Team

By the Way: we are safe and really everything is good here. Please do not worry