June 17

We arrived safely at the YWAM base around 2:00 a.m. DR time after about 21 hours of travel.The last flight was delayed by about an hour and a half due to rain and lightning storms. Unfortunately we were boarded on the plane and had to just wait it out. We were very happy to get to bed and sleep for a bit. After a few hours of sleep we had the chance to get familiar with the base. It has three large villas and a pool which is empty. So sad! This is definitely a tropical climate here and is very humid. We are hoping to adjust to this over the next few days. We stayed on the base today and did some cultural awareness training and worked on our skits for vbs. We also prepared a craft to do with the kids. I think the main excitement today was when a fire truck arrived and we learned that they were here to fill the pool. So exciting. Hopefully we will be able to swim in a few days. We had a few hours this afternoon to rest and shower. We were all glad to have a fairly light day to recover from the prior days travels. We finished our evening with a worship and purity session where John, the leader this week, challenged us to write down the things in our life that we hold on to which distance us from God. After writing those down, we took turns nailing those papers to a cross. We then broke into small groups and prayed for each other. We are all heading to bed with a peace over some of those issues. Tomorrow afternoon we will go a place called La Tanka and do vbs with the Haitian kids there. We are looking forward to getting into the community and loving on them. Pray for us as we continue to adjust to the humidity and for the many opportunities we will have to love on the people here. Everyone is doing well just looking forward to a full nights sleep. We will try to send pictures soon.