Hello everyone! I hope you all are doing well! It has been one week since I last posted because I have been so busy and the internet has been...well...interesting! God has really used me alot this past week and I have gotten to see much more of Haiti than I have before!
Let's start from last friday! Well, my group was going to another campus of Northwest in a city called Beauchamp which is located about 3 hours west of the base mission! It is in the desert! the moment we got past the river in Port de Paix, there was cacti everywhere, dust flying everywhere, and alot of heat!! It was so cool to see a whole other part to Haiti besides the tropical scenery! :) We got to beauchamp and stayed overnight there (the nights were cold there and the starts were incredible). The next day we went to Salines Mayette (an orphanage of Northwest) and played with the children all day before enduring the 3 hour bus ride back to the St. Louis du Nord campus! :) Such a beautiful trip! God made Haiti so diverse!
Then over these past couple days, we had church, relaxed, went to Anse a Foleur on monday and got to go into the voodoo temple again! It seriously feels like an indiana jones movie when I walk in and there are candles everywhere with people chanting! It is so sad to see these lost people! Keep them all in your prayers! Our God has the power to free anyone! :) Then we went to Tortuga on Tuesday, had an amazing time playing soccer and hanging out with the children in the ocean! I want to spend a couple nights there (i'll probably get to do that).
Yesterday, we went to Le Beaie. We went and saw stuff there, went to the beach, had sloppy joes, played on a jungle gym with some children and just had an amazing time at this beach cove campus! :) It's beautiful there!
We now get to relax for 3 days because all of our teams left last night. We got to sleep in until 8 today! that was amazing and we get to relax mostly all day and prepare for the next groups coming in. Tomorrow we might go to Port de Paix for the day and get some ice cream! I'm really excited to have a break and to see how God is going to prepare me for this next group that I will be assigned to!
Another great thing that my fellow intern (Davis) and I did when we were in Beauchamp was take a translator, security guard, and ourselves and go talk to the Bocou or, if you would like to call it in English, the voodoo witchdoctor! We asked him if he would like to talk to us and if we could talk to him and he said no problem! We asked about what he believes and what he does and he says that he thinks Jesus is "bigger than bigger" but that he prays to Jesus in order to call an evil spirit to come help give him knowledge about how to heal people! He thinks he is going to heaven because he helps the Lord heal the sick and cast our demons. It's so sad! He says the spirit enters his mind while simultaneously he talks with the spirit as I would be talking with Davis who was right next to me (scary). He uses the spirit to help make him money. He said, "I want to change and believe in Jesus, but He doesn't always answer, so I use the spirit, whom he called mouve, to help me provide for my family." Davis responded, "it's a faith thing, you have to trust that God will provide (and He does). We talked to him for 50 minutes, and even shared what we believe, so when we go back to beauchamp, we are going to talk to him again and build that relationship.
That's what I have been up to, hopefully, I can blog again soon! Keep me in your prayers. I will probably be blogging twice a week now! Have a wonderful time! Again prayer is powerful! God bless you!
I love you all
Nathan
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