Aftershocks

This Monday morning at 4:30am and Tuesday morning at 1:30am Haiti experienced 4.7 aftershocks. We haven’t had aftershocks that big in a while so needless to say it shocked people. Just when you think you are in the clear they start again. The clinic was full of injuries from the aftershock … not from building falling but from people running out of their houses and falling. One of our interpreters sprained his wrist and another hurt his foot. The past couple nights some people have chosen to sleep outside so they do not need to run out of their house in the middle of the night in fear. Each aftershock brings back emotions from the initial earthquake for those who experienced it. It truly breaks my heart that my friends are living with this fear that they do not want to sleep in their own house. We have it so good in North America; we put so much faith in material things that could be gone at any moment.

Ana and Mina Memorized a verse in school right after the earthquake… it is very literal but very true.

God is our protection and strength; he always helps us in times of trouble. So we will not be afraid even if the earth shakes and the mountains fall into the sea.

Psalms 46:1-2

Please pray for all my Haitian friends and Mission of Hope staff that they would continue to turn to him for comfort.

Pray for the aftershocks to stop.

Also pray for my friend Gabby in the ward. I have been going down to the ward almost every night to visit patients and hang out with people down there. Gabby has a wound vac on his leg and told me he told me today that he was going to have surgery tomorrow. He told my friend Sarah thet God is healing him and his going to continue to heal him.  Just pray that his surgery would go well tomorrow and that we would have a quick, smooth recovery. I will go visit him tomorrow and see how everything went. I also just talked to Cheryl about him and she said that he has been a patient of theirs since they first opened their clinic; he would come daily or weekly (I can’t remember what she said) to get his dressings changed on his Ulcers. Cheryl said they have been trying to get him to the states to get this taken care of but praise the Lord we have surgeons coming to the Mission of Hope who can not only help earthquake victims but help people like Gabby. So tomorrow he will have a skin graft done and this will prayerfully fix his problem and the Ulcers won’t come back. So pray for Gabby tomorrow, he is probably mid-twenties, hes super sweet and whenever I see him he has a smile on his face! I will try to post a picture soon!

Love Blessings and Praying for the aftershocks to stop,

Leeann

P.S. I just had another Haitian experience… I was sitting outside writing my blog and this is a PS because this was suppose to be a serious blog but I walked into my room to go to bed and there was a little mouse sitting on my top bunk… I started to silently freak out and then went over to the van der Marks to get help. Cheryl gave me sticky pads to trap him with. I put them on the floor and he soon got scared and basically jumped right onto the trap. He began to squeal as I was screaming through this whole thing too.  So I ran back out of the guesthouse and a volunteer from the medical team got him off the sticky trap for me. Now I can go to sleep knowing there isn’t a little mouse sleeping with me.