This is why we should be missionaries!!!!

So we came back from conference. This last week was really long and pretty difficult. But there was light at the end of the tunnel. Dani, Jude and I had talked to some new (to Dani and I) friends on staff in St. Marc and had decided to go to the DTS graduation which was yesterday. Although we did not leave on time and had a flat tire on the way there, we eventually arrived. It was a really relaxing time in St. Marc. Dani and I took a walk and processed some things and it was really nice. No one was asking me questions about stuff on our base, there were no situations for me to try to figure out, I was able to relax. We had some very hospitable ladies hosting us. I stayed with Sarah, Stacia and Rose and Dani stayed with Hana, Anne, and Chrissi. They fed us and let us relax and treated us great! I am very happy that we are now friends and family with the St. Marc staff!
We attended the DTS graduation. It was really great! I had only met most of them at the conference, but there were four Haitian guys that were not able to get their visas, so I did not meet them. The Haitians had gone through 11 months of discipling and had all changed a lot. There were two American guys, Craig and Mike, that came in June for their DTS. DTS outreach in Haiti is different than most other places because you don’t usually leave the country. Anyway, all of them that I met and got to know better are amazing. I am very sad that I was not in Port au Prince for the time they came for part of their outreach. But they are a great bunch of people. Several of them are wanting to come back to be on staff with YWAM Haiti, some in St. Marc and some in P au P.
Craig and Mike had flights out of Port this morning, so we got to catch a ride with them instead of riding taptaps and public buses. About 20 minutes into our trip, Freeman (head of transportation in St. Marc) called me and said that a girl from one of the teams at our house had called him and said that there had been an electrical fire in the wires in front of our house. So I told Dani and she said that had happened before and I told Jude and he said, “Okay.” Ronald, who drove us, dropped us off at the bottom of the hill close to our house. When we turned onto our street, there were people from out teams gathered out by the bus. As we got closer, we noticed that the bus had black all over it and the tires were all melted. This was a big surprise! I knew there had been a fire, but didn’t know the bus got fried. It is a crazy story. This is getting long, so I don’t know if I’ll explain it right now, but let me tell you what we’re doing in the spiritual realm right now.
This Sunday, November 28th, Haiti’s national elections are supposed to take place. They will be voting on a new president, senate and other things. We have a team here called Fire and Fragrance, they have a focus on worship and prayer. They have arranged that the 200 hours before the elections people will be praying for a different year that Haiti was in a pact with satan. There are churches and people all over Haiti, America, South Korea, Canada and I’m sure other places joining us in this. So we believe this was an attack from the enemy that caused like $65,000 worth of damage and to put a spirit of fear on our teams and staff. This morning, even as I type this, we are coming against this attack with a spirit of worship. We already had worship this morning, but we are continuing in that spirit.
Last night at the DTS graduation, one of the testimonies was about when they had to walk through knee high mud and water with their sound equipment on their shoulders. They were all discouraged and didn’t want to do it, but Owen decided to have a good attitude and said, “Hey guys! This is why we should be missionaries!!” So every time something didn’t go right, or it didn’t make sense or was frustrating, that’s what they would say and it would make it better. I decided I was going to bring that back to our base. This morning, as I went to take pictures of the bus, I had that thought, ‘This is why we should be missionaries!!’
In other, Tabby took her first steps by herself this weekend and she did some more this morning for me and Dani. She is pretty proud of herself!