Wow let's see, it's been a while...

Well, I guess the last time I wrote on here was around Easter and well, I guess kind of a lot has happened sense then. Gosh, I don't really know where to begin. Okay, umm....well, I'm in Haiti right now, at the Jacmel base (you can find in on a map if you want) Now I'm in the "international outreach phase" of my DTS. We are going to be here for two weeks and then in St. Mark for a week. Then we get back, have a couple days of recooperation, then....then....we graduate. wow. I can't believe it. However I don't think I'm coming back until about a month after the school is over, I'm going to go to the Capital (Santo Domingo) for a little and then go back to Azua for a couple days (one of the cities that we did out national outreach in, which I will talk about in a little bit) Then I think, well, I'm pretty sure, that I'm going to go back to Haiti with a good friend of mine (who is Haitian) and we there for a couple weeks. I would like to go back to the place where I was the first time I went to Haiti (Grand Goave) and see Wildor and Samual again (the friends Jess and I made in Haiti) but also, I think it's going to be cool to go to Haiti without being under all these rules, I like that I will be getting a more first hand experience. (Something that not many people, even missionaries, get) Yeah, sure, it's a little dangerous but I think Peterson will take care of me (Peterson is my friend that is taking me). Anyway, I guess I should let you guys now what's been going on with me for the past month or so, so, well, here goes:

I will start with National outreach. The first location of our national outreach was in Jumunuco. It's a little village in the campo (which is like the country) and it's a pretty poor village. All the houses are kind of spread out. We went there to help two missionaries that were trying to get to know the villiage better so they could set up a ministry there. So our job was mainly to survey the town to try and get an idea of what the needs of the community were. Also, while we were there, we stayed with some people in the community. And let me tell you, these were humble homes. We're talking one room, no pluming, no electricity, sleep with the bugs and the rats, bath outside, kind of homes. It was great. serouly. I really enjoyed my time there. We mostly work during the day, but we would eat supper with them and then sleep there. Eating too, that's another thing. So, these people are poor, poor, poor, right? So when then give you food, you just need to eat whatever they put in front of you because their sacificing for you to eat. The first night was really great actually. The second night too. They made us fried egges and yuca. But the third night, they served up sardines, in this tomato sauce. Let's just say you would have been prond of me. Another thing to was not so much what they served, but how much that served you, because you couldn't throw away food you know. And that was one thing that was hard for me, but I did it. The other thing was that we are really, really not supposed to drink the water. But one day we forgot our water bottles and they gave us their water and, well, we drank it, we drank a lot of it. We prayed over it too and we didn't get sick, so that was pretty cool. The lady that we stayed with was kind of crazy too, I mean, we was really nice, just a little crazy. She kept trying to marry me off to her son. A night we would talk to Sandra and be like "Sandra, ask your friend if she likes my son, he is in love with her and he wants to marry and American. He's a really hard worker..." It actually we getting pretty bad. Sandra's not letting me go back there with her. when she goes again after our DTS. But for the most part all of the other people were really nice. When we wenet to survey, we divided in pairs and I was with Terry. The people were so hospitable, we always got offered a place to sit and almost always coffee. We even got offered placed to sleep and dinner. They really enjoyed having company and I really enjoyed the time I had with them. One family even gave us bananas to take with us. There was one girl that we met that was 19 years old and she had been married for 6 years! Married at 13, isn't that crazy?! She was a really sweet girl though, her name was Dalania.
The last day in Jumunuco, we had a staff day their, where all the YWAM staff for all of the Dominican came. It was good to see everyone, as we have worked with, or at least met, almost all of them. The only thing missing was our beloved Africa team. They had to work in the capital so they couldn't come. We all missed them very much. It had been almost a week. Oh, and I almost forgot to tell you! Okay, so here I am, in this poor, poor house (the house we were staying at) this no running water, no electricity, roach infested humble little home and in this home, amazingly enough, there was a T.V. hooked up to this car battery looking generator thing and guess what was playing on that fuzzy little T.V.??? SMALLVILLE!! I almost died, it was amazing! I still have believe it. It was truely the mercy of God. Smallville. wow. Oh, and I should also tell you about getting water, umm, nevermind I don't really want to. Just ask me about it when I get back and that why I'll know too if you guys are really reading this.
So anyway, that was pretty much Jununuco. i'm going to go ahead and post this. but I tell you most about the rest of my national outreach in another post. Oh, and by the way, I know I have A LOT of errors on here but I'm just trying to go really fast (and I'm just a bad speller as most of you know) so I hope you can get the jist (is that how you even spell "jist"?) of it. And hey, at least it's English ;) so for now. Orevwa! Banjey Ben ou! (because I'm in Haiti now)