Day 4 by Brooks
Sunday mornings at HATS are always special. After a lazy start to the day, the kids get cleaned up and dressed up and we head to church. The worship is always so good you have to take a water break halfway through. The HATS crew sang this morning, which was beautiful. Karena’s voice is so gorgeous and amazing that we need to get her in a recording studio. If I could fit her in my backpack, I’d take her back with me to win “America’s Got Talent.” (If you’re with the FBI and reading this, I’m only kidding).
Beautiful singing HATS group
Brian with sweet Karena
church
In 1988, an injured Kirk Gibson stepped to the plate in the bottom of the 9th inning in Game 1 of the World Series and smacked a walk-off game winning home run. Thirty years later, an injured Brian Richie, less than 12 hours after having his big toe annihilated by JJ, stepped up to pulpit and delivered an incredible sermon in church. Sure, he had the help of Karen, who changes up everything we say when she translates it to whatever she thinks the sermon needs to be about, but still. It was an impressive feat.
Brian giving the Sunday morning message
Our Texas family sure can sing
Sunday Morning
After church and lunch, we went on a “short” trip to visit some old friends of ours, the Comforts, in La Chapelle. A 30 km trip took an hour and half to get there and over an hour to return. The young ones rode in the back of the truck and the adults road up front. Except for me. Somehow there wasn’t room for me in the nice, cool, comfortable, air conditioned vehicle. I rode back with the kids. The things I do for these people.
Ready to go exploring in the HATS Taptap.
Abbie visiting with kids at Comfort House
Since Sundays are a day for reflection, David and I thought We’d share a few things we’ve learned about our team this week:
Abbie says her dad has lots of questionable views on things
Brian once ran a math boot camp for his family and would withhold allowance money from his girls for wrong answers.
Karen isn’t scared of rats or Haitian street gangs, but she’s terrified of cockroaches. This is why she hired Jocelyn.
As Captain Keith always says “the turbulence is always less at 1,000 feet lower and the pavement is always better on the other side of the road.”
You go through La Chappelle twice on the way to the Comfort house.
Karen says we can buy some Vanilla on. Tuesday afternoon. We’ll be in Miami then, so we’re not sure what she’s implying.
One more day here tomorrow. We plan on enjoying every minute of it.
