Actually, I sat down to record the "ups and downs" and found that the "downs" were mostly inconsequential things in light of so many "ups", praise the Lord!
UP: The first Saturday in January brought my first opportunity to witness a Haitian wedding. My friend Joab, after ten years of engagement, finally married his best girl.
UP: Electric work is getting done around campus. Many visiting teams have put a lot of effort into burying our electric lines, which will ultimately bring down our electric costs. Also, some of these fine men were able to find the problem - a two inch segment of aluminum wire that had corroded away - causing power pulsations throughout our house for the previous week. It also took care of a scary nuisance we had grown used to over the past year and a half: getting a nasty little shock just by grabbing the refrigerator door while barefoot!
UP: Our little Sarah turned a big EIGHT years old! Her birthday was on a Friday and she was nearly hyperventilating for the entire week leading up to the big day.
The celebration included a new birthday outfit:
A party with friends from school and the mission:
A "Frozen" themed party with games like "Pin the Nose on Olaf":
Pizza:
And chocolate cake:
And, of course, presents:
UP: Our friend Storly returned for a few days to lead some further celebration of the recent radio project - a lot of work and expense and prayer that put our beloved Radio 4VEH back on the air at full strength, both AM and FM. There was a special worship service of praise and testimony at the large church next to the mission.
And afterwards, our family was invited to tag along for lunch and we got to meet some great new friends. (Thanks for the hospitality, John and Karine!)
UP: After lunch, Storly showed us where to find relatively cheap ice cream downtown Cap Haitien. How did we not know about this before now??
UP: The work Melissa and I are doing here in Vaudreuil was featured in the latest Outreach Magazine, a quarterly OMS publication.
UP: Hannah is slowly regaining strength after suffering from a couple of weeks of pneumonia in her right lung. She missed a lot of school but now she's back.
UP: Our good friend Lee came to visit for a few days. He spent a day at the medical clinic and then a couple of unusually rainy days with us at Cowman School, hopping around from class to class and doing impromptu science lessons with the kids. Here he is in my classroom:
And Melissa's:
It was so good to have some unhurried time together around the table in the evenings.
And on the last night, Lee shared his recipe for strawberry frosting - which we all proceeded to make ourselves sick on.
On Friday morning, he got just a few minutes to recharge his Vitamin D before he headed back to complete an Indiana winter.
SUPER UP: The purpose for Lee's quick trip was to scout out the possibilities of bringing his family over their upcoming spring break. Well, he must have like what he saw because he left Friday and the day after he got home his family reserved their flights for March! We can't wait to have the whole family come down!
(Actually, there is one fairly major "down" that is getting under our skin a bit and we'd like to ask prayer for, but I'll give that headache its own post.)
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