DAY 8 (January 9, 2012)

This morning we got to sleep in until 9:00 a.m.-YEAH!  We were pretty excited about that after a long three days of the festival!  After lunch we went back to our rooms and packed to head home tomorrow.  After packing and getting our room cleaned up, Charlie and I headed down to the end of the driveway of the hotel where there were some vendors.  We looked at some of the items they were selling and I fell in love with this figuring that I tried to bargain for.  I only had $7 left besides larger bills so I tried to bargain for that, but the guy would not budge.  Not too much later, the guy saw me walking in the hotel area and yelled for me to come back down.  So my sister Kasondra and I headed down and she helped me bargain $7+ a granola bar (which the guy was quite excited about).  If I would have known he wanted food that bad I would have offered him several of the snacks I took along plus the cash that I had earlier-Kasondra’s always been a good shopper.  Anyway, I was pretty excited I got this souvenir as our days in Haiti were now counting down and I really wanted to take something back home with me as a memory of the trip.  Later that afternoon we loaded up into the vehicles and drove about an hour away to an Orphanage called “Mission of Hope”.  We arrived at the orphanage and had to wait a bit before we were let inside the gates.  To kill sometime we had chin up competitions on the back of pastor Luc’s truck and also had piggy back, and “fast walk” races.  Good times!J  Once we were allowed into the orphanage several of the men started to set up our sound system and instruments in the church where we performed a concert later that evening and the rest of us started a soccer game with the children and others played with the younger children on the swing sets, played catch and drew with sidewalk calk.  At about 5:00 we had supper at the orphanage.  Tonight was another great “at home” meal which consisted of spaghetti, cheese bread, salad, and confetti cake…yummy!  We then headed down to the church on the grounds of the orphanage and put on a concert for other teams that were in Haiti doing mission work and some of the children from the orphanage.  Josh shared his personal testimony and Jon did several bike tricks including a jump over three individuals that were laying across the floor.  After the concert several of the team individuals had one-on-one conversations with those that were present at the concert.  It was neat to see Christ bringing people together.  We then loaded back up into the vehicles, drove back to the hotel and prayed over the translators that helped us for the week-Oscnar, Michelle, Carlos & Jeff, as well as pastor Luc and his son Luc Junior, said our good-byes and thanked them for all their help and using their gifts to share the gospel.  As usually we finished off the night with team devotions and debriefing and headed to bed.