Easter in Haiti is like most days here, always an adventure and not quite what you expect. We started the day with a Sunrise Service. It was supposed to start at 6:00 am, but hardly anyone was there. So our service didn’t start until after 7:00. The service was enjoyable and we had a packed house.
After worship we planned on having a nice turkey dinner. The plan was to put the turkey in around 11:00 and have lunch at 2:00. About the time we were going to start the turkey, our new generator died. After a few minutes of diagnostics, Pastor Pierre and I decided that we were having a fuel problem. We must have had some dirt or something in the fuel. We could get it to run if we kept pumping the fuel primer. We drained the water separator and it looked fine. Next we changed the fuel filter with an extra one we had for the Oliver 1855 tractor. It still wouldn’t run so we changed the fuel separator. We didn’t have a new one so pastor went to town to see if he could find one. When he came back we decided to wash the old filter. After about four and half hours, we finally got the generator going again.
In the meantime, there was an accident down the road and Aaron Elliott, Clerice our translator, and Aubree, one of the nurses went to stabilize a severely wounded man and then transport him to the hospital.
Somehow, in the midst of all this, we managed to hide Easter presents under the kids' pillows, do a candy hunt in our house, and do an outside egg hunt with the hard-boiled eggs we colored yesterday. We even managed to get naps in, despite the lack of air conditioning....Jay slept on the floor because it was cooler.
Our stomachs are now pleasantly full from our turkey, sweet potato casserole, corn, and rolls.
After worship we planned on having a nice turkey dinner. The plan was to put the turkey in around 11:00 and have lunch at 2:00. About the time we were going to start the turkey, our new generator died. After a few minutes of diagnostics, Pastor Pierre and I decided that we were having a fuel problem. We must have had some dirt or something in the fuel. We could get it to run if we kept pumping the fuel primer. We drained the water separator and it looked fine. Next we changed the fuel filter with an extra one we had for the Oliver 1855 tractor. It still wouldn’t run so we changed the fuel separator. We didn’t have a new one so pastor went to town to see if he could find one. When he came back we decided to wash the old filter. After about four and half hours, we finally got the generator going again.
In the meantime, there was an accident down the road and Aaron Elliott, Clerice our translator, and Aubree, one of the nurses went to stabilize a severely wounded man and then transport him to the hospital.
Somehow, in the midst of all this, we managed to hide Easter presents under the kids' pillows, do a candy hunt in our house, and do an outside egg hunt with the hard-boiled eggs we colored yesterday. We even managed to get naps in, despite the lack of air conditioning....Jay slept on the floor because it was cooler.
Our stomachs are now pleasantly full from our turkey, sweet potato casserole, corn, and rolls.