It has been an interesting week since my last post... I will get pictures up as soon as I can.

This past week was very busy... I have been preparing to be gone for a little over a week so getting all the work set up, supplies purchase, etc. has kept me hopping. We(Chad, Damian and I) had met and discussed an employee issue that has been an ongoing problem and needed to be addressed. Last night we met with Calva to fire him. If you remember from previous posts, Calva is the one who carved all of the bed heads. It was a hard meeting and he is extremely upset, but we know it was the right thing to do. Please pray for Pastor Damian, Chad, Calva and myself as we all work through this situation.
Today Chad brought me to the CCCD Kingston campus. I will be here for the next 9 days hosting a mission team. Today I have been looking around to see just what work needs to be done and took a detour over to the merry go round to push the kids. Gandpy's saying of 'Once is a habit with kids!' is ringing in my ears... I lost count of how many times I've pushed that crazy thing, but the kids are loving it and so am I!
I will have limited email access these next few days, so if you email and don't get a quick response... now you know why.

Last Friday I interviewed and hired a new man, Kenroy to work in the Factory. Kenroy has done woodworking for Northern Caribbean University in the past and I hired him to work on a per job payment basis. He started on Monday and so far things are going well. I gave him a print of a dresser and turned him loose. The dresser he is building is the first project to use the Kreg Drill system that Grace Church so graciously provided for us! His ability and using the Kreg jig is helping with the production time. Having Kenroy here has also begun to accomplish another goal of mine... you see Kenroy is hearing. There is a lot of competition with the deaf here, especially Nigel, to prove they can do better than a hearing person. Nigel has started showing improvement in his efficiency and I am hoping that continues.

It is 8:30pm and I am still in my work clothes... been a long day and wasn't feeling like anything got accomplished. Calva came down wanting to talk and we had a good discussion. I need to back up a second and let you know that Friday I got all new screens put in at my apt! So, we are sitting talking and he sees a rat on top of my cabinet. I got my machete, and tried to kill my unwanted guest... but he got away out of a hole in my brand new screen! So, I set a trap between the screen and the now closed window. We continued talking and pretty soon... Bam! I ran over and opened the curtain to see it only had him by the tail. We quickly ran outside and blocked the hole in the screen so now he was trapped. It was a good thing, cause about that time he got free of the rat trap. So I went inside and opened the louvered glass window just enough to get my machete through and got him!!!!! I will spare you the pictures and just tell you he was 81/2" without his tail. Did I mention that I ABSOLUTELY HATE RATS!!!!

Ya think there may be a reason the roads down here are shot??? Yes those are 2x12 extra tall side boards on that truck and it is loaded with wet sand and the tarp is kinda keeping it from running off the sides. I would guess at least 1.5 if not 2 times the legal limit for the States...

Right after I got in the bus just as we were leaving the pier. In the back, Carole, Dan and Keith. Second row is Eric, Sharon and my Great Aunt Hellen. Closest is Kay and Ken. Mary is sitting right next to me to try to keep from getting sick on the smooth straight roads we have down here:)













Aunt Hellen and me at Walkerswood Spice Factory getting ready for the tour












The Whole Kloter Crew at Coyabe Botanical Gardens. Kieth, Carole, Dan, Mary, me, Great Aunt Hellen, Sharon, Eric, Ken & Kay

So I am a little behind on the updates... I arrived in Mobay on Friday, stayed overnight and then picked up Marc and Leo at the airport on Saturday and as we were getting ready to leave town got a call from Delta that they had my bag and wanted directions. We met in Montego Bay so it was No Problem!
These last couple of weeks have flown. First was the quarterly board meetings, then on Friday the 23rd I went to Ocho Rios and picked up Kevin and Rachel(Clough) Strong and brought them up to JDV. It was great to meet Kevin and we went to the infirmary Friday late afternoon and then I drove them to Mobay on Saturday. Sunday was my day to drive the church bus, so I left here at 9:30 and made 2 trips and after Church drove twice into Mandeville and then dropped Delroy off at his home... Way out in the bush about 45 minutes past Knockpatrick! On Monday Chad, His son Paul and I went to Kingston with Mr. Jones to the immigration office. They processed the first part of my Visa on the Jamaica end and I registered as an alien(yes I am officially and alien), and they kept my passport to give to the Ministry of Labor. Lord willing Wednesday coming we will go back to pick up my passport and go to the Ministry of Labor to finally get my Visa!
On Tuesday, I had the awesome opportunity to go to Ocho Rios and meet up with family! My Great Aunt Hellen, Kieth & Mary, Eric & Sharon, Ken & Kay, Dan & Carole all were on a cruise that had a port of call in Ocho, so I was able to spend the day with them! It was a blast and meant so much to me! Pictures coming...
The rest of this week has been... well, I glad it is Saturday!:) My job has been putting out fires and fixing equipment for the most part. One big Praise report is that devotions went well this week! Praise God for that!

Travel...
Praise the Lord for great friends! Thursday Jared drove me up and dropped me off in Elgin at Jason and Karen's.(thanks again Zobe!) Schambach hospitality was once again awesome:)... I must say that I am royally spoiled when I go there!
Jason got up at the unreasonable hour of 3am to drive me to Ohare for my 5:50 flight... and once again the flight stories of Warren continued.
My connection in Atlanta I knew would be tight... 30 minutes to be exact. We arrived in Atlanta 20 minutes early so I was breathing a sigh of relief, however there ended up being no gates available to we didn't get off the plane until 9:15 and my connection was 9:30 departure. Other than the brief help from the train, I was at an all out sprint(man am I out of shape) across the airport and as I rounded the corner to concourse E, I heard the last call for my flight. They had to re check me in at the gate because they had closed the ticket scanner. Whew, Just made it!
Customs and Immigration went great! I was hardly even questioned about me paperwork, Praise the Lord for that!
When I arrived in Mobay I found one bag, but my hard to miss red plastic tote didn't make it:(
1 1/2 hours later... I had completed the lost bag claim and hopefully will get my bag sometime this week. Pray that it arrives with everything in it!