Newley arrived

Monday August 21st

We arrived in Haiti Thursday evening. Other than being hassled by a American Airlines boarding agent the trip was uneventful. We were greeted by our good friend Lamont at Mathew 25. We had been up since 3 in the morning. After visiting and eating supper we went up to our room watched part of a movie and went to sleep. The next morning we found out that the battery in the truck needed to be replaced. We went and bought another battery, and ran a few errands. Then we headed up to Gros Morne.

After a long drive home we were welcomed by several of our friends. Unpacked relaxed a short time and fell asleep. I know all this sounds boring and mundane put everything here is always hard and exhausting. The heat and humidity takes adjusting to. It is rare that you can go to one place and find what you’re looking for.

All weekend we have had many visitors. Just when I was feeling a bit down missing my family Jon Gary came with his father. He is the baby four years ago that came to me with pneumonia; Dr. Crystal was here and prescribed antibiotics. He was also very malnourished, for the next year the Haiti Project supplied him with milk. He also had some development problems; he did not sit up, ect and was a year old. So I talked with a visiting physical therapist and had the father bring him every day for therapy with me. I also encouraged the father to work with him. He now runs like a normal child his age and will start pre- school this year. After seeing how well this little boy is doing, I was affirmed that this is where I should be.

Thanks to the Lay Salvatorians we have new batteries and our solar electric is doing very well. We have meetings the next two days, and then we will need to prepare for our next few weeks of a conference and visitors.

Thank you for your prayers and your interest,

Denise s.d.s