Well here’s the truth….

Cortni and I didn’t sleep hardly at all last night. We had to share a tent in an outside courtyard which didn’t seem too bad until we realized that the mattress on the floor only covered about half the floor… and that there was no breeze whatsoever in our 87 degree non-air conditioned tent. That meant that we were laying still but sweating like we were running a marathon… not cool man, not cool.

There are people sleeping on cots all over the compound and our little tent is actually quite nice compared to that I guess. Twelve foot fences with rolled barbed wire on every side of us reminded us that this isn’t Kansas for sure… and when I was quite sure that I had slept the whole night through and gotten a great night’s rest… I looked at my watch to find that it was literally 12am… and we had another 6 hours to go… with a rooster crowing every 30 seconds on the other side of our fence. Shortly after that all the power for the facility failed and they had to turn on the generator… which of course was 30 feet away from us… but it drowned out the rooster for a bit even though it was like sleeping under an 18 wheeler. Waking up ever hour on the hour was actually quite disconcerting… thinking that it was morning and finding out that it actually midnight.

I proceeded to wake up every hour on the hour to check my watch and find us no closer to relief. Ben, our camera man, asked if we had ear plugs to sleep in and then laughed when we didn’t… now I know why… that rooster was annoying and LOUD in the stillness of the night here in Haiti. My thought process is that if the rooster crows before the sunrise… kill it. So I’ll spend today trying to figure out how I’m going to do that (lol!). If I achieve no great scheme I may try to sleep with my in-ear monitors in tonight, because that was brutal.

So now we begin the day with a Bible study at 8 and then we’re headed up the mountain…. I’m gonna try to take lots of photos with my iPhone and upload them to my facebook tonight when we check back in.

In a final note… this is what I asked for… this is 100 times better than what these young children are sleeping in. At least I’m waking up with a toilet nearby, breakfast, and a shower…. the tent cities that we passed yesterday were miserable and the people have lived that way since January. These 3 days will be a good little reminder that these people need us to WAKE UP.

Pray for my wife Cortni… she gets migraines when she doesn’t sleep and honestly I am worried about that… I can’t function without food… her body shuts down without sleep and I know she only slept a couple of hours last night. Also on a separate note I came down here with an inflamed Achilles tendon in my left leg and last night it was pretty swollen… we’ve got lots of walking to do today and I’m hoping it will hold up.

Luxury in Haiti: running water, toilet, meals, and a tent.

We’re waiting on the Lord to show up, because we won’t be able to do this alone!!

Blessings,
Jason