Church, and beach soccer

Today we went to church in the village that we are working. We walked to the building that we visited the first day and there were three girls singing and one little boy playing a drum. We sat down and they sang a couple more songs. Then Francky (I've been spelling his name wrong) asked if we would sing. So we all got up and went through a couple verses of Oh! Happy Day, then we did lift your name on high and the Haitians started singing it in Creole. I think I remember the same thing happening last year but it was still pretty cool.  Tom gave the John 3:16 and 17 message while Francky translated, and then their pastor gave a message. We then split up and went to a few different houses to get a feel for day to day life for these mountain farmers. The houses are pretty much what you would expect. About 15x15 with 3 or 4 rooms, the kitchen is outside, and there is an area to hang clothes on a line. We visited about 4 houses and more of the kids from the previous days would show up wherever we were. After the houses we hung out with the kids for a little bit and taught them tag and hopscotch. We saw a few mature coffee plants when we left so it's cool to see what we planted will turn in to one day. We went back to the hotel and on the way Drew discovered that our driver Adias actually spoke pretty good English so we talked to him for a bit on the way back. He is just really quiet so I thought he didn't speak much English. We had a really relaxed day after that, hanging out at the beach, swimming and just having community together. Drew, Ethan and Sean have all been playing soccer on the beach with some locals every afternoon, they are the same kids that think I look like Messi and now that is what I am known as to the Haitian kids around the hotel. The first kid I talked to here at the hotel came to play soccer with the guys again but the left side of his face was really really swollen. When we asked him about it he explained with motions that he got stung by a bee. He didn't seem to make a big deal out of it though and he got the point across that he would be alright. Dinner keeps getting better every day, shrimp kabobs, rice, pork and fried plantains were on the menu tonight. We had a little worship session in the rain with part of another missions group here from Knoxville TN after debrief and a few of us stayed after to really share whats going on in our lives. We get back to work tomorrow so I am so pumped to see what we get to do