TOnight is our last night in Haiti. Surprised? Yeah, so were we. We found out today that our Awaken team will be leaving tomorrow morning and staying in LA for a week before heading back to Kona to debrief as a school. The elections that were held last week were rigged so they will be reheld just a day or so before our original flight was supposed to leave. However, from the election last week, most flights were cancelled for election day and the days that followed. Also, the US embassay called and advise us to leave just to be on the safe side. So, we are peacing out of Haiti a week early and staying in LA for a week with our leader's family.
I love Haiti and my time spent here. I have made friends in tent cities that will always hold a place in my heart. I have held babies that I will never forget. I have seen sights that will be forever branded on my soul. It was tough walking into the local tent city today, knowing that it will be the last time that I ever see these people here on earth. I love them as if they were my friends at home, but I know that I will see them again someday, when we are kicking it up in Heaven.
God has had His hand on us our entire trip. We were protected form disease, rioting, and fire, and I am sure much more that we will never know about. I am thankful for my time here. I am thankful for the peopel I have met. I am thankful for the work that was done on my heart. I am thankful that I have a real house and a real family to go home to. I hope and pray that someday my friends here will also have a family and a home to go to.
Wow! Your time there seems to have flown by. Safe travels.
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