Gunnar came to Haiti for a sort of internship/international living/missions experience and has been working with Scott at Baptist Haiti Mission and Mountain Maid. He has been doing office work with Scott, much-needed grunt work around the Mountain Maid greenhouses, and experiencing international living.
We have a few new agricultural projects coming to Mountain Maid and one of Gunnar's jobs has been to pressure wash the greenhouse floor so that we can begin the projects in clean new areas. This was a huge job, but he has done it well. Here are some before and after shots of the greenhouse floor.
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| Greenhouse floor before: 12+ years of mud and moss |
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| Greenhouse floor after: Clean and ready for new projects |
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| Gunnar with Joel, brothers in the greenhouse arts |
Gunnar's Creole language skills have really blossomed while he has been here and it is such a treat to see him speaking and interacting with new Haitian friends around the mission. He is quite popular on the children's playground, too! Every time he has taken Kilee and Josiah to play there, I walk by and he has about 5 or 6 Haitian kiddos hanging off of him while he's talking to their older family members. He seems to enjoy life and missionary work in Haiti! A few years from now, it would not surprise us at all to hear that he is working overseas.
Aside from being a tremendous help in the day-to-day business of running the mission, he has been a huge blessing to our family personally. Our kiddos think he must have hung the moon and are always vying for the attention of "Mister Gunnar" (or if you're Josiah, it's "Mista Gunna"). Yesterday, Kilee drew a picture of our family and it had an extra person in it. I think they've enjoyed having a big brother of sorts!
Thanks, Randy and Danna for letting us have him for a few weeks! We do promise to send him back, but he will be greatly missed here in Haiti!
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