Fun Fact 1 & 2

Mom and Dad this is one is for you! Our first night here, while trying to sleep with no electricity...meaning no fans...meaning sleeping in sweat puddles, we were awaken by two gun shots which, seemed down the street. While our eye lids were pealing open, the next FIVE gunshots really shot us out of bed. No pun intended. Lets just say they sounded like they were right outside...because they were. Britney, the young American mom of the family we are staying with, comes running in yelling "Stay down! Stay down! Oh by the way, there is no power... Welcome to Haiti!" Needless to say we are fine and finally have power tonight. Go fans! Family and friends, don't sweat it....we are sweating enough for all of you, LITERALLY. Welp, off to go bust a cap!


As some of you know, we like our piercings. Maybe one of us more than the other (13 vs 5). Well, in the Haitian culture, having a lot of tattoos or piercings is slightly looked down upon... by looked down upon I mean women with extra piercings are considered prostitutes or witches. Uh, we like to think of ourselves as neither so we took them out. Christa used a pair of jewelry wire pliers to cut out her six year long nose piercing and Rachel is down from thirteen piercings, including two nose ones, to four!

"For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them...I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings."
(1 Corinthians 9:19,23)