new baby, visitors & finishing well!

Because our internet died simultaneously with the start of the World Cup, we’re pretty sure millions of people trying to watch matches through the internet is to blame. There is very little television and internet available here, so it seems that what is available is being maxed out!

So, photos might have to wait until after Brazil wins (at least, if Haiti has its way!)

However, I’ll try to at least keep getting text up, though this post alone has taken several days to get online.

Story for the girls out there: Mirlove Mimose (Jil’s wife) brought little baby Wendy for us to meet on Tuesday morning. Ah, she is just gorgeous! Mirlove, Wendy, and several of the other kids are living with Mirlove’s father until the house is done, as that their current little hut has been destroyed to make room for their new ti-kay (little house.)

They asked me to name the baby, who as of Tuesday was still title-less. I just plain refused, knowing that anything my American tongue picked would be Haitian-ugly. After a while, Mirlove gave in, and finally deemed the baby “Wend-leh-er-sees”…or at least that’s how her new name is pronounced.

She consented that I call the little one “Wendy” after I butchered “Wend-leh-er-sees” several times, and wow, am I smitten…she is just a GORGEOUS little girl, who looks just like her mother and is endowed with a beautiful head of soft curly locks…I NEVER remember Lily being so tiny and fragile! Just gorgeous… Lily and I came right home and dug into the closet, pulling out Lil’s littlest garments and packing them off to Jil.

All of the blocks for their new home are finished, and a foundation is in the works…I think it might take more than another few days to be finished, but we’ll see.

Meanwhile, Matt started teaching the LAST course of the school-year today: 1st Samuel. He’s teaching both the 2nd and 3rd year classes, and despite the ever-reoccurring pre-feeling that he does NOT have time to be teaching another course, today went wonderfully and he came home singing the same tune he always does, “I LOVE THIS!” Praise the Lord!

We have received final word that Aunt Lisa is coming to the rescue. These next two weeks of finishing the school-year, teaching, preparing for graduation, preparing for summer speaking, preparing to leave for 7 weeks and hosting 4 people for a week of seminary construction has our heads and days swimming.

Lisa is a teacher in inner-city Chicago, and will be done next week, and has then selflessly agreed to come and help out with all of the above, and with Lily, for our final week, flying out with us on July 3rd! I cannot WAIT.

Don’s daughter and friend from church will be joining us on the 23rd to help finish the second story of the men’s dorm, and to work on Lucner’s house. He will be getting married in November, Lord willing, and their little house needs a LOT of work.

Thank you for all of your continued prayers, especially as we finish out this school year. There have been many times this past year that we weren’t sure how the Lord was going to pull us through, and here we are at the end of the year, marveling at the perfection of His plan and timing.