Dirty, dusty, sore - and delighted

As the picture from Paul shows, we successfully demolished the United Methodist Church in la Tremblay today.  Isn't that ironic, as Paul is a Baptist!  Many ferocious sledge-hammer blows were needed to get those walls down.  Paul was surprisingly enthusiastic in this process. And now, those walls are mostly in small pieces all over the floor of the destroyed church.  Our job over the next 4 days will be to move those millions of small pieces out to the roadside.  We already broke the spokes in one wheelbarrow, and have to hunt down and buy a new one tomorrow.
Our first project when the day started was to put up a tarp so we could escape the Haitian sun from time to time.  The gentle breeze caught that tarp like a big sail and pulled down the corner of the wall where it was attached.  That was unexpected, and we were fortunate that nobody got crushed under it.  But, our translator (Karen) had her backpack there where the wall fell.  And within the backpack was her laptop.  It has a broken screen.  We'll help her replace it with a new one.

Met some nice new Haitians today, including a muscular young man in a thick wool hat and a "Dallas" tank-top.  His name was Nixon.