It’s now February 4th, and we’ve been away from home for four days now.

It’s hot (I’m sure it will be – check out the Haiti Weather here.)

By now I haven’t had a warm shower since the morning of February 1st and I’m already realizing how much I take for granted the little things of home.

I know I miss my family terribly and wonder how they’re doing.

Hopefully I haven’t gotten homesick enough to start sending messages via bottles thrown into the ocean.

We’re worshiping in a country church here in Haiti today as far as I know – I’ve heard about the ride up the mountain to the church and I’m looking forward to that adventure for sure!

Tonight is the SuperBowl of all SuperBowls.

Tonight the Indianapolis Colts will put a hurting on the Chicago Bears.

Score – 27 to 14.

By now our Mission Team has arrived in Haiti and become settled into the daily routine.

I’m sure I’ve already sweated through numerous t-shirts and mistakingly drank Haitian water.

No doubt, the Immodium AD that I packed away has already been sought-after and taken atleast once. I’m hoping that all of our luggage made it to the island and is in-tact.

We’re staying on the island of La Gonave throughout the week – mostly interacting with Cory & Kris Thede – medical missionaries serving at the island hospital.

Gonâve Island (French: ÃŽle de la Gonâve) is an island of Haiti located to the west-northwest of Port-au-Prince in the Gulf of Gonâve (18°50′N 73°05′W). The island is an arrondissement in the Ouest Department and includes the communes of Anse-à-Galets and Pointe-à-Raquette. Made up of mostly limestone, the reef-fringed island of Gonâve is 60 km (37 miles) long and 15 km (9 miles) wide and covers an area of 743 km² (287 sq. miles). The island is mostly barren and hilly with the highest point reaching 778 meters (2552 feet). The island gets anywhere from 800mm to 1600mm of rain a year, higher areas representing the latter figure. Issues of overgrazing and water resource overexploitation affect the island’s approximately 100,000 residents. The island was once used as a base for pirates.

(from Wikipedia)

While away in Haiti, I didn’t want to leave the stevansheets.com visitors without any updates, so each day that I am away, there will be a new post with various information about the island of Haiti and other useful(less?) information!

Haiti (Haïti in French; Ayiti in Haitian Creole; Hayti in nineteenth century English), officially the Republic of Haiti, occupies one-third of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. The country also includes many smaller islands such as La Gonâve, La Tortue (Tortuga), Les Cayemites, ÃŽle de Anacaona, and La Grande Caye. The uninhabited island of Navasse is claimed by both Haiti and the United States. ‘Ayiti’ (Haiti) being the indigenous Taíno name for the island. Its highest point is Chaine de la Selle, which has a height of 2,680 meters. Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. The total area of Haiti is 27,750 km² (10,714 sq mi) and its capital is Port-au-Prince.

(from Wikipedia)

In just about a half-hour, I will be gathering with the other 6 from my team at the church and we will spend some time in prayer with our families and friends from our church. We will then get on the road and head South! (and then North?)

“My bags are packed, I’m ready to go….”

Also – DON’T STOP visiting stevansheets.com over the next few days – there WILL be regular daily updates (I typed them out yesterday!) to keep you laughing and guessing as to what is REALLY happening with us in Haiti! The posts will go “live” around Noon each day, so stay tuned!

I’m off.

Tom Brady, after living a full life, died. When he got to heaven, God was showing him around. They came to a modest little house with a faded Patriot’s flag in the window. “This house is yours for eternity, Tom,” said God. “This is very special; not everyone gets a house up here.” Tom felt special, indeed, and walked up to his house.

On his way up the porch, he noticed another house just around the corner. It was a 3-story mansion with a Blue & White sidewalk, a 50-foot tall flagpole with an enormous Colts logo flag, and in every window, a Colts towel.

Tom looked at God and said “God, I’m not trying to be ungrateful, but I have a question. I was an all-pro QB, I hold many NFL records, and I even won a few Super Bowls.

God said, “So what’s your point Tom?”

“Well, why does Peyton get a better house than me?”

God chuckled, and said: “Tom, that’s not Peyton’s house, it’s mine.”