A hot day at LaHatte!

Our first full day in Haiti was a great one!! We started off the day taking a bumpy ride up to our school in LaHatte to have a fun day with the kids! We played games, blew bubbles, some of us got our hair done (aka put in a bunch of tiny braids), and we just got to love on the kids. Heather and Rene got the opportunity to work on the Public Relations project by sitting down with some Mission Possible employees and hearing their stories. It was a blessing! While we all talked in devotions tonight, almost everyone talked about their different personal experiences at LaHatte. They noticed how much the children just loved to be near us- they loved to hold our hands, take pictures with us, and genuinely just wanted to be loved. We had an opportunity to walk up through their village as well, and of course we were being accompanied by all of the kids! The pastor at LaHatte walked with us and gave us a little history on the community, which was very kind of him and was interesting for all of us to learn about. Once we got back to the mission center and took care of our sunburns (despite having put on the spf 50 sunscreen that we had applied in the morning), we started working on our gate-painting project! The view of the ocean, and the sound of the waves, made it a pretty relaxing job. :)  Today was so good, we can't wait to see what the rest of the week holds!!

Kimberlie with her little sponsor girl and another little buddy!

Mallory getting loved through pampering and hugs! 

Todd made all sorts of new friends!

Shelby's little shadow! :) 

Working hard on the mission center gate!