Another Friend for You to Meet

So it turns out when you spend 5 weeks in Haiti it is very difficult to find the right words to share with people all that happened. Yes it was fantastic and hard and wonderful and challenging and eye opening and exhausting and awesome. Unfortunatly those words don't tell you very much. My hope is to tell you about some of the people we met and through sharing about them, you might understand a little about our time in Haiti. You already met Herwine (now I know how to spell her name correctly :)

Today I want to tell you about Keni. He is a 6 year old little boy who lives in Cabaret, Haiti just north of Port au Prince. Many things about this little boy touched my heart including the difinitive way he said "yes", like he had been raised speaking English and was about 18 instead of 6. His family attends church with Pastor Jackey who is also just amazing. I will tell you about him soon. Something that little Keni did one day just spoke volumes about how he had been raised. There is a hill/cliff type thing behind the church that you have to go down to get to the soccer field at Pastor Jackey's. Of course the little Haitian kids go up and down it like it is nothing. We had to be a little more cautious. One afternoon Ben decided he was done with all the kids messing with him and he wanted to go back up the hill for a little down time. Keni saw me heading up with Ben and he came too. He got in front of us and put out his little hand and helped my little boy all the way up the hill. Every once in a while he would get a little far ahead but he would turn around to check on us and run back to help. The fact that a little boy, the same age as mine, was so conscientious of others, just blew my mind. He knew that others are important. When they got to the top of the hill the boys raced their soda bottle cars up and down the floor of the church while the other moms, construction workers and I laughed, smiled and cheered them on.