I did not get a chance to write yesterday, I am trying to get some equipment purchased and into Haiti by Friday, looks like it will happen I just need to remember to figure out how to get back on Monday. I tell everybody that I will just take a publico, they say “hay no Roberts es muy peligroso”. Anyway yesterday was busy.
Here are some pictures of the country that I took on Monday. It really is a beautiful country. Life for Dominicans that live in the country is different than the city, but I guess that is true just about anywhere. I know the people in Bicknell live differently than the people in Draper if just because they can’t shop at Costco every weekend. When I see the conditions that the country people live in with the almost complete lack of any modern conveniences I am tempted to feel sorry for them, but maybe I shouldn’t. I remember a gentleman that was called to the Salt Lake inner city mission telling me that he had to learn that walking into somebody’s house and saying “you need a new couch, we can get one for you” is rude. Instead he had to learn to focus on providing the help that was requested. Jared gave me a book about a doctor in Haiti who told about how in the 1960’s the United States had a program designed to send machine oil to Haiti. Most Haitian didn’t then nor do now have machines that need oil. They tried cooking with it but concluded it was of inferior quality to the cooking oil that they already had so they would just discard it.
Well, I should stop preaching. This is what happens when you spend too much time alone, although I am not really alone.
I moved out of the Hotel and into the patron housing today. There is a washing machine so hopefully I can do some wash tomorrow, my white shirts and dark pants are starting to look like missionary clothes.

Public transportation for the country folk. Notice the power pole. It is not to carry power from the city to the country, but to carry power generated in the country to the city. The country folk don’t have much electricity, they either can’t afford it or don’t have the appliances that would use it. Kind of makes you think that the wind and solar farms and coal and nuclear plants should be in the city where the people that benefit also deal with the generation. Oh well, preaching again, sorry.