Greetings from One Thankful Missionary,
As I am sitting here writing this I just want to Praise the Lord for how good He is to us. The last couple of days have been a whirlwind. Our 90 day visa's expire in January, this would mean we are on crunch time to get all the needed items to get said resident permit. Praise the Lord we opened the Bank account needed , with a few glitches and 3 trips to Hinche but its open. We also were able to get the medical certificate very Thankful for another Missionary and his wife who walked us through the process and were able to get the test and results and paper needed in a span of 2 hours.
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Jonathan and I got up bright and early this morning and drove the 3 1/2 hours to Cap Haiti. Beautiful drive, seen lots of goats and pigs just hanging out in the middle of the road. We were able to take all of our paper work to the immigration office and now we wait for everything to be processed so we should have in hand in about 4 weeks. On our way home we ran into a couple of obstacles. We were just outside the city and on the road that takes us home, there were protesters and tires burning and the road was blocked they were throwing rocks. Now when this happens we don't even try to pass, it can become very violent. The United Nations came and they were unable to help as the people were throwing rocks and they drove away. We turned around and Jonathan wanted to take me to see the San Souci Palace so we drove and took a look. We were trying to get a hold of Jonathan's dad to see if there was another way we could go. As we were driving we started to hear a bad noise coming from the tire and it was shaking, we stopped and Jonathan got out and looked at the tire and he noticed the lug nuts had board into the rim. One of the local Haitian guys came over and Jonathan and him looked at the tire and he said he could fix it. Now in Haiti that could mean anything. He went to his house and brought back some washers and put them on. We thought it was fixed, Jonathan started the truck and we started to drive off and the tire pops completely off. Here we are on this corner, half in the road about 10 people on the other side of the road watching. The same man comes back and takes a look at it again and this time he and the 5 other men watching jack up the truck. He did this 6 times and finally it worked they go put the tire back on and the washer, this time ones that fits and put the lug nuts back on and we go go. We get back in the truck, go back down the same road. The police came and dealt with the protesters from earlier and put the dirt back in the road. This time 5 ft from the other one they put huge banana leafs in the middle of the road, people blocking the road. Jonathan and I turn around again. Another missionary who was in the area and came to check on us was still up the road waiting on some people. We let him know that the road was again blocked. He and Jonathan decided they would drive down a little further and see how bad it really was. Praise the Lord the police were once again coming and they were behind us. We stopped and let them go ahead of us and we slowly edged our way closer. We saw them throw tear gas grenades at one home. They continued on and made the protestors disperse, they cleaned all the stuff out of the road way and after about 10 mins we were able to pass. Praise the Lord for this missionary as he followed behind us and make sure we made it back up the mountain without any more issues. We were able to make it home before dark. Thank you all for all the prayers. As we good not have made this trip or go through these things with out you.
Because Of His Blood,
Christina Wall
