Coming Home

The last 10 months in Haiti have been way more then what I could have ever dreamed of. I remember being home sick my first week here and thinking it was too many days to count down but maybe I can count how many Sunday I had left, at that point it was 20. Twenty Sundays came and went and this place has become my home, the people have become my family and Mission of Hope has become part of my heart.  I feel very blessed to have lived here and experienced everything I have experience. My friends have taught me so much. They have taught me that life is not my own and each day you get is a gift. It doesn’t matter what you have to just be thankful for everything and every blessing you get.  They have taught me about relationships and love, the most important thing in your life is to have people around you to love and pray for and build relationships with. They have taught me to lean on God always, in the good, bad, happy, sad, struggles, and when things are going well! Often when you ask a Haitian “How are you?” they say “Good by the grace of God” and the statement that follows almost everything they say is “If God wants” God is always there and everything is in his control and it is only by his grace and his will we are where we are yesterday, today and forever.

As some of you already know I will be coming home on December 15^th for Christmas… the second part of that you may not know is that I will be moving home. Un-expected yes but I truly believe it is God’s plan for my life right now.

When I took this position I was aware that Haitians have been in this position previously. When meeting with Brad Johnson about a month ago. He told me they had found a Haitian that could do the Guesthouse Coordinator role. This is bitter sweet as this is what we want; we want the Haitians to be working in more roles then North Americans and we believe that it will be Haitians that will bring change to their country. Please be praying for my friend who will be moving into the role at the Guesthouse, I can’t wait to see him shine like I know he can in this position.

I will be coming home knowing I served the lord with all my heart and that I am coming home forever changed by the people of Haiti.  I also come home leaning on the lord for next steps… at this point I have nothing planned and I’m kind of excited that God knows and has wonderful plan for my life.  

Please pray for my transition home… I am excited to be home again with friends and family but I am leaving another place that also feels very much like home to me.

Pray for Haiti right now during this political unrest. Pray for safety of all the Haitians in the city. Pray for peace and justice and hope for a non-corrupt government one day. Pray that the rioting calms down and the airport open back up so me along with 6 other staff can make it home for Christmas.

Love, Blessings and home,

Leeann

Prayer, Praise and New Begginings!

Prayer. I couple posts ago I posted about a little boy named Pierre. Well last Saturday while sitting in our apartment one of the Hope House girls ran up the hill to the staff housing to tell us that Pierre was sick , he had a fever and he was stiff, he wasn’t moving very much. Dr. Cheryl and Dr. Marja went down to the Hope House to find him very much not himself. We ended up taking him to the children’s hospital in Port au Prince that evening and that he were he is still. Rachel was out of town while this all happened so she headed to the hospital on the way home from the airport to see how he was this past tuesday. She saw a rough looking little boy hooked up to tubes and Machines at that point they thought he had meningitis. Dr.Cheryl and Rachel went back a couple days later to get a report from the doctor, they hadn’t gotten the result back from the meningitis test yet and they were going to send him for a CT scan and see what they could see. We are unsure of what the future looks like for “Ti-Pierre” (little Pierre) but we know God is healer and he has plans for the little boy. We’ve watched Pierre make some improvements in his time with us, Pray for him to keep fighting.

Praise. I’m not sure if you I ever told you about my friend Sultan. Sultan was a surgery patient in June. She has two below knee amputations, she is diabetic which can be a cause of that but other then that she told us that a rat bit one and then she steps on a thorn with the other so we are not exactly sure. She came to the clinic in June for her pre-operation consult and I remember seeing her and thinking wow this lady is rough. She hobbled in with her 2 very old fake legs and no fingers. She was going to get her legs re-amputated so they would heal properly and she could get fitted with new legs.  As you know the ward is my sweet spot and I loved going down to the ward at night with the patients. Well Sultan worked her way into my heart. She may have a rough outer shell but she is the sweetest thing ever, she loved speaking creole with me and would say things over and over until I understood. I loved practicing with her.  Anyways this past week was her week to walk. We had an amazing prosthetics here this week who casted and fitted 2 new legs for Sultan. I walked into the lab on Thursday to see Sultan walking between the bars we have in the lab for patients to practice walking. When she saw me she lit up and gave me a big hug! Then I watched her walk out from around the bars and walk without hands.

She was so happy she did  a little dance. She walked… Praise the Lord. Something as simple as walking we take for granted, we complain when we have to walk to school or walk to work but people like sultan would give anything to walk, and to see the joy and hope in their eyes when they walk for the first time in a long time is incredible.

New Beginnings. Yesterday the Hope House kids finally moved up to Hope Village, this has been years in the making. It was cool to see how some kids got really excited about this and other just pain kids and complaining that now they will have to walk further to school and church. You may recall that Lindsay and I use to live in the village since then they have built a couple more, now we have 6 houses with 4 apartments each and a baby house.  I went down a bit today and most have them totally settled in are enjoying their new home. Pray for our 62 children as they transition to their new homes in Hope Village.

Also, earlier this week Lindsay and I had a couple days off and were able to get off the mission to go to our Friend Nathalie and Billy’s to help them paint their new house. It was nice to get off the mission and socialize with People and do nothing related to work. Praise the Lord for a break.

Will write again very soon!

Love blessings and life in Haiti!

Leeann

Hurricane Tomas

As many of you know, yes indeed Hurricane Tomas is headed directly at Haiti scheduled to arrive here on Friday. We have been watching daily to see where and when it will hit. As we drove by tent cities today all I could think about is how they will fare in this coming storm. I can’t help but think about all the people, children, little babies who will be wet and cold. Tents were not made to be lived in like this. It breaks my heart.

In the next couple days we will begin preparing the campus for the coming storm. Putting everything inside and also preparing medical supplies to go out to provide help where need.  Our medical staff will be Dr. Cheryl, Sarah, Lindsay, Dr. Marja, a visiting Paramedic and Grant, yes Grant Rumford! We found out a yesterday that Grant was praying about coming to help with the aftermath of the Hurricane. He will be arriving tomorrow morning and all us staff are ecstatic that he is coming for a few days, wish it was better curium stances but we are still excited to see him.

We can already see the storm coming from the south. Most of our weather comes from the west so as we look across the bay you can see rain. Our Internet is already starting to get bad so I will do my best to update via my blog and facebook.

Please pray for Haiti. Pray for a Miracle, pray that the hurricane would change directions completely. Have faith as small as a mustard seed and believe that God can move the hurricane because he is more then good!

On a happier note, Lindsay and I were able to get off campus today. This was the first day ever when we haven’t had any teams. Aside from a few medical team members the only team we had here left today and we don’t have any teams until the weekend.  There’s not much to do on campus so we decided to go on an adventure. We ended up going to the sugar cane museum for lunch; it was delicious!! Ruben kept laughing at me because I was excited at how fancy it was. It was pretty fancy for Canadian standards so it was exciting to get out and do something like that. It was a great day full of much needed chilling and laughter.

Love, Blessings and Tomas

Leeann

Current Cholera Outbreak

I have had many emails and facebook messages asking about the current situation in Haiti right now. So I thought it would be easiest so blog about it and since I haven’t blogged in a bit this is perfect.

So as many of you know yes indeed we have a Cholera outbreak in Haiti… we heard about it on Thursday evening and started taking extra precautions. St. Marc is about 1 hour north of Titanyen. I have heard of a case or two in a village about 20 minutes  north of us. There are 5 confirmed cases in Port au Prince.

Saturday we only had one team on the mission so we spent the morning preparing oue ward for what was possibly to come. We set up 19 cotts and buckets; we are ready if anyone comes in from the community. As of yet we have no patients and we are all doing well here at the Mission of Hope.

At church on Sunday a man stood up and talked about the outbreak and gave some advice. The Haitians are nervous and scared in situations like this but just pray that they have wisdom to know how to protect themselves from this outbreak.

Please continue to pray that the spreading would stop especially with the current living conditions of a lot of Haitians living in tent cities.

Will do my best to update soon!

Love, Blessings and Cholera,

Leeann

Ps. You can also ready my room mates blog about the outbreak… www.haitiisinmyheart.blogspot.com

Home Sweet Home

I’ve been home for 2 weeks and my days have been full of sweet reunions, good food, great memories and icing on the cake…. A wedding!

My first day home I was able to sleep in, stay in my pajama’s all day, drink milk and use as much bandwidth as I wanted with out the fear of being kicked off. I also realized that day that although Haiti and Oakville were very different places I consider them both home. If you asked me a year ago if I would spend 8 months away from home I think I would have said no way. I was very much home body. Funny how God picks you up from where your comfortable and shows you that you can make more then one place home. Home for me is somewhere you love and feel loved, a place you are familiar with and comfortable. Both Haiti and Oakville are that for me. I am very blessed and thankful to work with an amazing North American staff at the mission. A few months ago I would have said they truly are my family away from home but now I just call them family because Haiti is my home too.

Here’s a few pictures of my time home.

 Cruising with Michelle.

 Niagara Falls with Lindsay

 Apple Picking with my cousin Cole.

Good friends with the beautiful bride.

A lot of people have been asking me for an update on Pierre. I will do my best to update you from my last blog until now.

So Pierre did arrive back that night and stayed in Sarah and Diana’s apartment for the next couple days. We started treating him for pneumonia but he was eating well, his eyes were focusing a lot better and he was laughing and smiling. After 2 nights in their apartment he got moved down to the Hope House with all the other kids. I tried to go down and visit him almost every day. The kids at the Hope house call him old man they say because he has a lot of teeth and looks like a baby. He was still in the Hope House before we left but no one knows how long he will be there for. The night before I left I went down to see the kids and he had a fever but was still smiling. Continue to pray for this precious boy who has stolen our hearts. Pray that we will have the wisdom to do the best thing for Pierre.

Here’s a picture of Pierre and I the night before I left.

Love blessings & Home,

Leeann

Abandoned Baby.

Woah, What a day! Days an weeks fly by in Haiti, I sometimes think back and say where did January 30th go. I’ve seen and experience so much in the last 7 months. Things that make me smile and some that make me want to cry.

Right now I am sitting in my freshly cleaned apartment… Thanks Lindsay. While I went to Port au Prince today she stayed home and cleaned. Shes the best first room mate ever! She has truly been a blessing to me and my time here, I couldn’t imagine the last 7 months without her.
On to my day. This morning myself and 3 other ladies went into Port au Prince grocery shopping and looking for gadgets for the kitchen. It was a fun day of fellowship together and also indulging in the comfort foods of home. They may not have milk but I bought a case of Mango juice.

While driving between stores and on the way home as I look out my window I saw 3 story buildings sandwiched together and rubble being removed by wheelbarrow. Its so easy for me to forget about it all… the mission is pretty and I have electricity and running water but not 40 kilometers away are people 7 months later still living in the middle of destruction. Its mind blowing at times and I will never be able to wrap my mind around what these people have gone through and are going through. All we can do is try to show the love and hope of Jesus.
Upon returning home, I had just finished unpacking the groceries and Lindsay got a call over the radio saying that we had child abandoned in the clinic. Lindsay headed down to the clinic and I headed down soon shortly after. I walked into our ER room to find a precious little boy who we were told was 2 years old. He arrived at the clinic earlier that day with his mother who went through triage and found out he most likely has Muscular dystrophy. She probably felt overwhelmed at what this meant for her little boy who was very weak. He was later found under a bench in our waiting room. We prayed over this little boy that he would know Jesus and that God would bless him and heal him and keep him safe. The mayor of Cabaret, a police and a judge were all brought into this situation. Sweet little Pierre is in the hands of the government. We wanted to badly to keep him while we searched for a place that would be able to care for Pierre and his special needs. As the police and judge met with our clinic administrator this tiny little boy was chugging pedialight and eating banana and apple sauce. Pierre eventually went into the ambulance with two visiting nurses to a hospital in Port au Prince who we pray will take very good care of this little boy we fell in love with.

So I as I sit on my couch about to go do my share of the cleaning, I am emotionally drained from the day but I smile because by the grace of God I am here and I know with out a doubt I am where God wants me right now at this moment.

This just in: as I was finishing my blog I got distracted by the fact that our nurses that went out to Port au Prince were not back yet and it was 7:45pm. So I called the driver and found out they were about a half an hour away. Now they left at 3pm so they had been gone for almost 5 hours. Turns out they went to 3 hospitals who dened Pierre and then ended up taking him the Mayor of Cabarets house which is a 10 minute drive from the mission. Having heard this… Sarah our eager , caring medical team leader gained the courage to phone our Haitian Director at quarter to 9 and convinced him to let us try and go get this sick little baby who needs to get medical attention and will not get it at the Mayor of Cabaret house. PRAY right now! Sarah, Lindsay, Ruben and Ford are on their way to the Mayor of Cabarets house to try and bring this little baby here to be taken care of while we find a perfect place for him to go.

I will update you more in the next couple days but please pray for everyone involved with this situation.

I’m about to hit the hay… no cleaning done on my part

Love, Blessings & sweet babies,

Leeann

Rest in Him

This morning Lindsay and I left the mission at 9:30 and headed to the beach. It has been a crazy summer here in Haiti. For the past 4 weeks we have had approximately 60-100 people on the mission at any given time. Well you may think this would make for many interesting stories but the last 6 weeks in my new roll all feels like a blur.

On Sunday Claudel was talking about how he was praying when he was in the States and he was asking God what he wanted him to do with his life. Claudel wrote a song that really spoke to my heart. He sang it on Sunday, it talked about resting in God. I’ve been really thinking about my life and future these days and I feel like I have no idea what it hold for me but I am content in knowing that when I rest in God he takes care of my every need and directs my path in the way he wants me to go.

Each day at the mission is packed with excitement and joy!
I have been in my new role now for about 6 weeks and I am really enjoying it, my duties include preparing markets lists for both Haitian Market and the Grocery store every Monday and Thursday, overseeing the tuck shop merchandise, planning sleeping arrangements for incoming teams, working with the kitchen ladies to have meals ready.

Last Thursday a girl from Canada named Maria arrived at Mission of Hope. She came in April with the Canadian team and wanted to come back. She is a cook in Canada and will be working in the Kitchen with the Ladies for the next 6 weeks and praying about possibly staying longer. Pray for her as she transitions to life here and works with the ladies in the kitchen. She is already been a blessing as she has taken a load of off me so I can try to make other area’s of my job better and help Lindsay.

The last 6 weeks has been full of challenges for me. Learning the new ropes was fun and difficult at the same time. I have also learned some much creole, I still probably understand only 30% of what the kitchen ladies say to me but they do their best to talk to me and I do my best and we seem to get by. I’m so thankful that God was by my side through everything in the last month… I couldn’t have done it with out him.

In my job I get the opportunity to meet some incredible people. People who are truly special and others who just make you shake your head in confusion. This summer we have been blessed to meet a lot of wonderful people, genuine hearts just willing to serve. We had a Canadian team here a couple weeks ago and I didn’t think I would mean as much as it did but it really meant a lot. God sent them and it was just what I needed to boost my spirit.

As today comes to an end I am thankful for the opportunity to get away from all the business, even if it was just for a short time, it was a wonderful day of just resting in God, resting in his love and truth and all the goodness he has for me.

Love, Blessings & Resting in Him,

Leeann

IN OTHER NEWS: I will be coming home in September for 3 weeks. The first opportunity to see me will be at my Bowling fundraiser on September 18th at Hopedale bowl in Oakville… more details to come.

Prayer Requests:

Pray for renewed strength for Lindsay and I as we finish off the summer and prepare to go home.

Pray for Maria as she transitions to life in Haiti and struggling wit the language barrier.

Pray for Mission of Hope as we continue to seek to bring life transformation to every man woman and child in Haiti, through Jesus Christ.

I didn't forget about you!

Wow, it's been almost a month since I last blogged! It has been a crazy month. Started my new job and am busy from 7am-9pm some nights.

Here are some thoughts from my mom about her time here in Haiti.

Notes from MOM,

LeeAnn is amazing and she is amazing in Haiti. It was great to see her and sad to leave her, but I know she is where God wants her to be and that God is flowing through her.

Here are links to our pictures.

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It was an incredible experience. Sad at times but encouraging to see the happiness in these people even though they live in poverty. The Earthquake has done damage beyond repair and yes they are starting to rebuild, but there are many years of that to come. Everything is done manually there. When I compare it to the trip to Mississippi 9 months after Katrina hit, it really doesn't compare. The US has the equipment and ability to rebuild fast, Haiti does not have the equipment, but their people have pride and are doing what they can manually with sledge hammers and brick makers that make one brick at a time.

When I compare it to the people in our first Nations where some live in 3rd world conditions in Canada , these people who live in 5th world conditions seem to have so much more because they are making due with what they have and are finding happiness, some of the people in the first nations seem to like to compare themselves to the city people and then complain about what they don't have rather than being Thankful for what God has provided. God has provided to each of us differently and we all have something to be Thankful for. Mission of Hope is an incredible organization and they are very much there for ALL the people of Haiti.

While we were there, there was a taptap (Haitian form of transportation, similar to our bus, but not) in the next village. This particular taptap would have probably held approximately 30 people. As it sped through the village it encountered a cow that got stuck underneath it, which in turn made it loose control and hit a cement truck head on. Mission of Hope was the nearest medical clinic to bring these people to. 5 people died at the scene of the accident. ALL the people at Mission of Hope kicked into High gear to try to save the remaining lives. 4 people accepted Christ that night.

The worship at the church held about 750-1000 people and it was filled with the spirit of God flowing out of each person attending as they praised him. They sang familiar songs, but in Creole, so we worshipped together, each in our own language. I was given the privilege to teach Sunday School while I was there, through an interpreter of course and it was an incredible morning where we talking about Shining Jesus like the stars shine in our Universe.

LeeAnn has picked up Creole extremely well and often would go back and forth between English and Creole in one sentence. God is equipping her. When she would introduce us to her Haitian Friends as her mom and dad, we would be greeted warmly with hugs. I would tell them that I was there to bring my daughter home to which they would reply "oh.... NO, we need her here". I kept telling the interpreters that have patiently taught LeeAnn Creole to stop, or she would never come home!!!

When we visited the two villages that were on either side of Mission of Hope God provided me with a personal Child interpreter that I was so Thankful for. The children are so sweet and just want to spend time with the people that visit and like any child, absorb the love and attention that was being shed on them.

ALL the children in Mission of Hope orphanage (Hope House) are incredibly special children, each with their own story, that you can truly see the love of God flowing to them and through them, and we had an amazing time with them all each time we ventured down there. We wish we had, had more time to spend with each and everyone of them.
Mina and Ana (the van der Mark's Haitian twins) that LeeAnn has been teaching for the last 5 months) are sweet growing fun little girls and we were so blessed to get to spend time making cookies with them.

The Johnson's (the family that runs Mission of Hope) are an incredible family and are all, always very encouraging and welcoming. Their heart pours the love of God, out to each visiting team member, each staff member (including LeeAnn) and every Haitian. They make everyone at MOH feel like part of their extended family. Please keep them in your continued prayers.

Me again! I had an awesome week with my parents here... wish they could have stayed longer... they will just have to come back.

I will do my best to try and blog this weekend about the happenings in my last month in my new job...

ALSO STAY TUNED FOR SOME EXCITING NEWS!

Love Blessings and business!

Leeann

Manman mwen ak Papi mwen ap vini deman!

What a week it has been already! Saturday I started my new job and the last 5 days have flown by. Saturday I woke up and had to prepare for the teams that were coming in that day. So I was running around trying to get the Guest Dome clean and making sure I had enough beds ready. I was so exhausted physically and mentally that I was nauseous so I decided to sit and right as I put my but on the chair the team pulled up. AS IF!!! (that was for you Brianna) Anyways so I got back up and ran down to the Guesthouse to greet the team meanwhile Lindsay is at the beach with a Team and Jeremy is doing a river walk with the other teams. So I showed the teams their rooms, got them settled in and told them they could wonder the property and go visit Hope House kids. I text Lindsay and told her to come get me when she got home from the beach because I was going to lie down and I went and crashed on the couch! What a day!

Sunday was pretty good! I woke up and put out breakfast for the teams, had a quick shower and headed down the hill on Lindsay and I’s ghetto ATV. After church we took the teams to Gwo Papa Poul (GPP). Side story- I text “BB”(the owner of GPP) Saturday night at 9pm and told him we had 100 people coming, this is the most people I have ever gone with to GPP in my whole 5 months… lets just say Lindsay and I were not looking forward to this and had very little hopes for it to turn out well. So We had soo many people we had to take 2 bus loads, I headed with the first bus load and we sat up stairs and they brought up the drinks and then the food started coming out too! Lindsay arrived with the second load about 30 mins later. I didn’t go down stairs until after I collected the money and brought it down to BB and Lindsay asked how it went I my response was “ACTUALLY- really good! How bout you?” We were really impressed. We had 100 people fed and happy! Good work GPP!

Monday to Wednesday are a blur! Going to the grocery store was a highlight. Other then that my job involves making sure the kitchen ladies have what they need to make food and getting supplies from the warehouse, answering a million questions a day and driving around a lot on my ghetto ATV running errands! I dropped in to bed the last couple night but was relieved that today was a little slower then yesterday!

I want to publicly say a HUGE thank you to Brianna and her family who have been a huge help to me. Between the 4 of them they have fixed the shower in the upstairs of the guesthouse, cleaned out my storage room in the guest house, set up a water cooler in the guest dome, put garbage cans in every room of the guest dome and are now organizing the guesthouse section of the warehouse! They have been incredible I don’t know how to thank them enough… what they are doing is going to make my life so much easier!

So now I will explain the title of my blog… Translation: my mom and my dad are coming tomorrow. For the last week or maybe longer I have been going around saying this creole phrase with the amount of days left until they come. Ana and Mina have been saying it too! The above is what I have been saying today! Tomorrow the day has finally arrived when I get to show them my world! I couldn’t be more excited! I can’t really sleep right now that’s why it is 12am and I am writing a blog!

I can’t wait to introduce them to all my new friends, my favourite foods, favourtie places, let dad eat all the watermelon he can eat in a week (can’t wait to have watermelon seed spitting contests with him), mom eat all the mango she can eat and letting my daddy drive me on the ATV. (hes kind of excited about that too!)

I can’t wait for them to see all the reasons I have fallen in love with this place.
For now I am going to try to go to bed and I will write again in a couple days and maybe even have mom write a blog for me!

Love, Blessings and Manman mwen & Papi Mwen!

Leeann

My Birthday week in Haiti!

A week ago today was my 21st Birthday and I feel blessed to be able to able to celebrate it in Haiti. The morning started off by opening cards and presents from home that mom sent with a paramedic! (Thanks Hilary) It was special to be able to open things from home as it was a little tough as this was the first time I wasn’t home for my birthday. Eight o’clock came and it was time for school, I walked in the classroom and Diana was wearing a pink skirt and a pink shirt… that was just the beginning… first Ana and Mina walked in all decked out in pink, then came Bridgely wearing his sisters pink shirt, Sammy, Teagan and Maddy entered next. Grayden has a pink shirt he sometimes wears but the funniest one was Riley who walked in wearing Sammy’s bright pink ‘Jonas Brothers’ t-shirt. They were all wearing pink for my Birthday!!! Check it out!

For Lunch we went to Yolty’s my favourite Haitian restaurant on a tap tap with my best friends in Haiti! Sadrac, JR Diana, My newest roommate Sarah and a bunch of the interns came out for lunch! I had goat! I love Haitian Food!

That evening we had a party at home church… for the Rumfords leaving Haiti and my Birthday. It was a fun time of just hanging out with Staff away from work. We had dance dance  revolution and guitar hero going, some DJ earworm and of course Cake!

Side note: The Rumford’s are a wonderful family that has been here at the mission for 10 months. Grant is a paramedic was the Emergency Medical Services Director (Man, did God know what he was doing when he called Grant to Haiti) His wife Sandy was the Haiti One coordinator. Grant and Sandy have 4 Children Michelle, Madison, Sammy and Riley! This family became my family away from home. I felt at home in their house and knew I was always welcome even when I was sick. Grant was a good Daddy and took care of me when I was sick! (Thanks Dad) I will miss them all very much. Pray for them as they Transition to their new life in Canada.

Friday we headed to the beach for the last day of school! This day was especially special for Maddy and Teagan as they graduated from grade 8. As a special surprise for them Diana and I stayed with the girls over night at Indigo! It was so much fun spending time with our girls. They are such wonderful young ladies already and I can’t wait to see how God uses them!

Check out Diana’s blog to see a poem she wrote about our school year.

So overall I have a fabulous Birthday week other then burning the back of my legs at the beach  and not being able to sleep on my back for 2 nights. This week I am enjoying hanging out with the van der Mark kids before I start my new role with teams and Teagan, Grayden and Bridgely head off to Canada with Laurens.

In other news we have Tropical Cyclone activity happening in Haiti. Which means scattered thunder showers and winds. The wind is wonderful but the unpredictable rain can stop! We even had hail on Sunday after church. It making the days cooler and nice for sleeping!

Will write again soon!!

Love and Blessings and summer fun!

Leeann

Grab your Kleenex!

Firstly I want to share a video with you all… You may remember me blogging about a boy named Job some time ago. You may remember that he left mission of hope to go to Austin Texas to receive medical care.

The following is a video of his story from the time he was dropped at our gate to where he is now! Job is such an incredible boy with a story of Gods love. He has touched the lives of everyone he has met. I miss him very much.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO 

Password: jobstory

Second I want to share with you a story about a precious little girl who came to the mission last week. I only know pieces of her story so I try to tell you the best I can. 

Her name is Rose Marie and she is 12 years old. Both her parents passed away sometime around December of last year. She was soon taken in by a family, not sure if they were any relation to her. While she was with this family she was treated like a slave, the beat her with a sugar cane stick… so bad they broke her arm and the bone was sticking out. When the earthquake happened she was able to escape this family and is now at an orphanage about 40 minutes north of us. Through our Haiti One connections the orphanage director contacted Mission of Hope and said that they had 40 orphans who hadn’t been seen by the doctor in a long time and within those they also had a little girl with a broken arm. Due to limited medical care in country this little girl has had this broken arm with the bone sticking out for 5 months now. Last week praise the lord was surgery week so our awesome team of surgeons was able to operate on Rose Marie’s arm. I met Rose Marie as she was waiting to go into her surgery… She was scared, as any 12 year old would be, as anyone would be.  I told her that I was praying for her and that I would come visit her when she was done her surgery. She smiled! Her surgery went well and was up and walking around the next day.  She was gone when I went to the ward yesterday but I was told she is back on Thursday. I am looking forward to seeing her again.

I have said this before but I’ll say it again… I feel so blessed to be a part of such an incredible organization that loves people the way God does. God is using Mission of Hope in truly amazing ways and I am blessed to be here and witness it all.

Love Blessings and Kleenex,

Leeann

Surgery Week Again!

Surgery week means many things here at the mission and for me personally. On Saturday we had a few teams arrive and among those teams came doctors, nurses and surgeons. Sunday afternoon we there were a couple scheduled appointments for a pre surgery consults. Among those appointments was my good friend Gabby.

So yesterday surgery’s begun… it also never fails that we have a trauma come in that the surgeons end up operating on.  I don’t know the details of the late night surgery last night but they were calling him "Machete Man" and it had something to do with his arm and a machete while he was trying to chop down a tree.

I personally really like surgery week… I love going down to the Patient dome at night. This month is a special surgery week because my good friend Gabby is back. You may remember me blogging about him in February and March. Gabby had a skin graft done in February and not all of it took so they are trying again tomorrow. In February I met Gabby down in the ward and went down almost every night to play cards. So last night after dinner I did just that! Thankfully it wasn’t as far of a walk then the high school ward. I walked into the ward very excited to see all the patients. There were also a couple more familiar faces from last month.

As I sat with Gabby playing cards and chatting; Gabby’s English is pretty good but there were a couple times I would say something to him and he would say he didn’t understand and would ask if I knew how to say it in Creole, 75% of the time I actually did! I think back to February when I would hang out with him… I was very limited on what I could say to him because I didn’t know Creole. So last night was a very exciting moment for me realizing how much Creole I knew and it was very useful last night! I still have a long way to go but it gave me a burst of encouragement to keep working at my Creole.

So for the next couple weeks I am looking forward to visiting the patients in the ward, chatting with them with the limited Creole I know but I always learn more Creole during my visits down the ward as the patients sometimes teach me and the translators help me speak to the patients as well.

Pray for the many people who will be getting surgeries this week. For many people these are life-changing surgeries (some still from the earthquake). Pray that we will not only help change their life physically but pray that we show God’s love to them while they are in the clinic and the Patient Dome/Ward especially those who don’t know him.

Love, Blessings, visiting patients!

Leeann

Prayer Requests:

-Pray for Gabby as he has his second skin graft done tomorrow. Pray for all the medical staff working on him tomorrow.

-Pray for Ana and Mina’s adoption. They are only a few steps away from being Canadian. Pray that everything would happen in Gods timing.

-Pray for all the teams who are coming in and out of MOH as the summer arrives.

-Pray for My parents who arrive in Haiti in 23 days!

-Pray for my mosquito bitten legs to heal. My legs have looked horrible for almost my whole time here and they are finally starting to heal. Simple request but I am tired of looking diseased. 

Master Plan!

Last week I was sitting watching some of the construction that is going on here at the mission. We are currently building a temporary Guest House and a covered sports complex. Progressively the structures have really begun to take shape and I found myself saying “ohhhh… now it make sense”. As I sit think about it, things became clearer I couldn’t help but relate it to our lives.  I’ve heard the analogy many times but this time it just really made me think about my own life. I remember talking to a lady from a team that was here about my future plans and that I was unsure of what I would be doing and she said well that’s because God doesn’t want you to know yet. That really stuck with me… if someone told me a 2 years ago that I would be a full-time missionary in Haiti, I would be trying to figure out everything on my own and working things out myself. Gods way is much better… he works everything out for us in his timing. Let Go and Let God!

So as I look at the structure, the sports complex started out a concrete slab then metal beams were added and they started a roof yesterday. Before the construction started on the sports complex I had my own idea of what it was going to look like but as it is progressing and we are starting to see the bigger picture it looks totally different then what I thought it was going to look like but I am excited to see the finished product because it is going to be so much better then what I imagined. Just like my life, I may have had a picture of what my life was going to look like when I left Canada in January but it looks completely different now. Sometimes things happen in our lives that don’t make sense but if we wait it becomes clearer.

When I came here in January the plan was to be a teacher’s assistant for the adorable newly adopted van der Mark twins and finish off the school year with them and come home at the end of June. I have been working along side Diana who has been in Haiti for 2 years now teaching the missionary kids. I am enjoying teaching Ana and Mina very much, they are little sponges and learn more and more every day. They are teaching me lots too… from patience to words in Creole.

From previous blogs it is not hard to tell I have fallen in love with Haiti and adjusted to life here. The thought of leaving at the end of June was bitter sweet. I felt a tug on my heart to stay and there was a need that I could fill.

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Starting in July I will be transition into a new role as Guest House Manager. I will be taking care of team housing, food and Meals and anything else that happens at the Guesthouse. I am really excited about this new role and the opportunity to continue to serve here at Mission of Hope . Many of you know I took Tourism and Travel in school and while taking that it was always my hope to combine it with missions and this is better then I could have ever imagined. Another way God is in control and sees the bigger picture!

Thank you for your continued prayers and support. I will be responsible to continue to raise prayer and financial support to live here in Haiti.  To support my financially you can look on the side bar on how to do that or just click on the “DONATE NOW” button to donate by credit card. Continue to check my blog for updates on my time here and how you pray for me, Mission of Hope and the Nation of Haiti. 

I will be home late August early September for a couple weeks, I look forward to seeing you all when I am home to share pictures and stories. I will update my blog about when I will be coming home so stay tuned!

Love, Blessings and the master plan,

Leeann

Look at the nations and watch--and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.

Habakkuk 1:5

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Mountain Climbing pictures!
Easter Time in Haiti!
More Haiti Pictures

HAITI FLAG DAY!

May 18^th is Flag Day in Haiti! Like Canada day in Canada and 4^th of July in the United States.

Celebrations happen all around Haiti but we happen to be only about 20 minutes away from a town called Arcahaie. This is the town where Haiti’s first flag was created. This is really just a side note because we didn’t go to Arcahaie, we decided that it probably wasn’t safe for a bunch of “Blan” girls to go.

So Diana and I had the day off school and so Diana had the wonderful idea of getting a group of us together and going to climb a mountain. We are surrounded by so many beautiful mountains, so why not climb one. My morning started off slow… I got to sleep in a bit and then took my time getting ready. I headed over to Diana’s apartment around 10:30 to find out the plan for the day.  We ended up having a very Canadian lunch of Kraft Dinner, Pizza and Coke. We thought it was kind of funny considering it was Haiti’s Flag Day! Sadrac joined Diana, Beth Lindsay and I for this experience. Anyways… We headed out around 1:30. Our team of climbers consisted of… Myself, Diana, my room mate Lindsay, Beth (an intern that is working at the orphanage) Michelle Rumford, Sadrac (good friend and interpretor at the mission) Jony (another good friend I met though Sadrac and Wicky) Jean-Marc ( one of the older boys from the hope house) and another friend of Sadrac and Jony’s. We created what we now lovingly call the MIX team! 


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Left to Right Jony, Beth, Diana, Sadrac, Lindsay, Me , Jean-Marc & Michelle

The climb was so much fun, there was a lot of walking, climbing and sweat but it was all worth the view and of course now we can point the mountain we all climbed on Flag day!

I am feel so blessed to live in such a beautiful country with so many wonderful new friends. Thank you GOD!

Love, Blessings, mountain climbing & Flag day!

Leeann

April was a blur!

May 6^th already! The first of April seems like yesterday! It has been a crazy month here at the mission. We had a team of 47 Canadians here for 2 weeks working on various construction projects and we had a bunch of medical teams that were able to go out on Mobile Clinics.  At one point we had over 130 volunteers here. That made it very hard to find quiet. The first day everyone was gone I remember walking into the guest house and seeing only 3 people sitting quietly… I though it would never be that quiet again! It was sooo nice. (Please don’t hear that I hated the Canadians and medical volunteers… I know this is Gods plan and volunteers are wonderful. They did amazing work while they were here, it was just something I’m not use to yet.)

 So here we are in May and I have now been in Haiti for 3 months and thought I would update some new Haitian experiences since my 1^st month here.

Haitian experience #8: Tap-Taps

I finally went on a tap tap! I have actually been on many times now. The first time I went on it was only about a minute ride to a friend’s house in the next village over. The next day I got to experience it with Lindsay for her first time and we went out for lunch with some friends after church. When getting out of the tap tap at the restaurant all of us bumped our heads on the way out and the Haitians laughed at us. I have learned something about paying when you get off the tap taps though, always have exact change or else you will get charged the white price (which is double the Haitian price-still very cheap) 

Below is a picture of Lindsay and I in front of a tap tap.

Haitian Experience #9: A wedding and a Funeral

Someone once told Diana to go to a wedding and a funeral and this will help you learn about the culture. I had the opportunity to go to both this past weekend. On Friday one of my really good friends Volcy who I really connected with at the beginning of my time here, he translated at the ward when it was at the high school and I would visit a lot and he was down there. Anyways he got married on Friday and it was quiet the experience.  The bridesmaids and groomsmen dance down the aisle to songs like Power of Love and Beauty and the beast.  The couple walks down one at a time and it probably takes 30-45 minutes for the whole bridal party to walk down the aisle.

On a sadder note another one of my really good friends Grandmother passed away a couple weeks ago and the funeral was Saturday. It was very different from back home.  One of the things that was different that there were tons to camera and video cameras, as way to remember the persons last moments in world.  This was a fresh wound for me as I just recently lost my grandmother. It was a very sad day.

Haitian experience #10:  Tuesday Night Worship                       

Tuesday night has become my favourite night of the week. Every Tuesday night there is a worship service from about 4:30pm-7:00pm. It is a wonderful time of being still and listening to God.  After only a few months here I know a handful of songs in Creole, which makes me very excited. So last week I had requested a song I really like. I thought Claudel had forgotten to play it and right at that moment I heard the into to the song and everyone began to dance… I loved watching the Haitians singing and dancing to this song. After that song they played 2 more of my favourite songs and the dance party began…  a couple of the hope house girls pulled Lindsay and I intro the aisle and a Congo line began and we were dancing and spinning! I was so out of breath and sweaty but the time the music stopped but I enjoyed every minute of it.

Liberte… nan nom Jezi! I am free… in Jesus’ name!

Lavi’m pa ka pase mal… paske Bondye vivan! My life can’t go bad… because my Jesus lives!

Jezi veri bagay yo! Jesus turns everything around!

First week of the month surgery has started up again and the ward will open for the next few weeks. I will hopefully get to go visit some sweet patients and practice my Creole. Speaking of my Creole… it has come a long way! I hit a certain point where I was like hey I think I’m getting this now. I still have a lot to learn but I am excited that I am able to communicate to the Haitians. They are very encouraging when you try to speak to them in Creole. Sometimes I walk in to the kitchen and just stay Mesi anpil! which means Thank you very much! And the ladies say ohh your Creole is soo good! If they only knew I don’t know much more then that. It means a lot to them when we come and take the time to learn their language.

Rainy season has arrived and after only a couple rains I could notice the colours changing… the plants were growing and the mountains were turning green. It rains almost every other night and I am very thankful for this because it cools down the nights for sleeping. Summer has also arrived make it very HOT during the day. On Sunday afternoon my thermometer said 45/112 in the sun!  For this I am even more thankful for the cool nights. My cool is not the same as it use to be. I looked at the thermometer last night when I was cold and it was still 25/77…don’t make fun… when you are use to HOT that is cold.

I am loving life in Haiti and enjoying the simple things. It’s the simple day-to-day things in life that make me smile.

Thank you all so much for your prayers and encouragement!

Love, Blessings, Spinning and Dancing,

Leeann

A Rough Night!

I was going to right a nice long blog updating you all on what is has been going on in the last week or so… But…

Tonight has been a rough night for me… I found out that one of my really good friend’s Grandmother passed away today. My friend is an interpreter on the mission and his mother is one of the kitchen ladies. This hits close to home for me… it just  hit me like a ton of bricks. I came back up to my room and looked at the date and realized it is 6 months tomorrow that my grandmother passed away. I’m hurting inside because I know what my friend is going through and it sucks. Also in the last month my family back home fixed up and sold my grandmothers house. I think I haven’t grieved the same been here because I can’t go visit her anyways but just thinking now I can’t share stories and pictures with her when I get home really hurts.  

As I sit here I struggle to find words to write… I don’t want this to be a totally depressing blog. I think of all my Haitian friends who have lost loved ones and they continue to be strong and praise God. Honestly that is not the first thing I think to do in a time like this. I’ve learned so much from the Haitian people. I do praise God that my Grandmother was a faithful woman of God who I will see again some day in Heaven.

Pray for my friend and he and his family go through this tough time.

Love, blessings, and Grandmothers,

Leeann

Ps. I will write another blog in a couple nights with some much needed updates.

God is the Ultimate Healer!

It has been a crazy emotional week for lack of better words!

We have an incredible medical team here this week who are working very hard and truly love each patient they see.

Pray for Nelise. Not only is she the Johnsons housekeeper but sister and daughter to 2 of our other Haitian staff. She was in a motor accident monday morning on her way to work. Arrived at the gate with 1 broken femur, 1 broken tibia, 1 broken wrist and lung bruising. She had surgery monday morning and is in our ward doing well but will be in pain and recovery for a long time.

Pray for Fritz-Also known as broken man here on the mission who is the brother in law to our main Haitian Triage nurse. He arrived with 2 broken femurs, 2 crushed/broken wrists and multiple wounds. After and 8 hour surgery last night he is in the ward doing well. Praise the Lord for the amazing medical/surgical team here this week and His perfect timing. Pray for the 18 patients in the Patient dome this week.

This week is also our first week with a prosthetic clinic...and Dr. Chase has fitted and made multiple prosthetic's this week. Today a patient who was operated at MOH serveral weeks ago will try on her custom made prosthetic and learn to walk with it.

I am so excited what God is doing here at the Mission of Hope!


Love, blessings and Healing,


Leeann

Best Weekend Ever!

This past weekend was probably the best weekend I’ve had since I’ve been in Haiti.

It started on Saturday afternoon after lunch I had nothing to do so I felt the urge to get off the Mission and do something. My friend Sadrac was heading home as I asked him if I could go with him and meet up with Diana who was at the other Sadrac and Wicky’s new place. Michelle joined us too!   

There is something about walking outside the mission gates, there’s a feeling of freedom and excitement because you are doing something new and different. This time was especially exciting because I was going to go on a tap tap for the very first time. Lindsay was at the beach so I was disappointed she wasn’t experiencing this with me. So we stood outside the mission gates and Sadrac waved down a tap tap. The tap tap came to a stop and I was doing all I could to keep my excitement inside. We looked inside to see one full tap tap, we said we would catch the next one… but before we knew it people were squeezing over to make room. Michelle and I squeezed our bums on the bench and Sadrac held on to the back with the guy who collects the money. Since we were only going to Source-Matelas we were only on the tap tap for no more then 2 minutes. We gave the man one Haitian dollar (there are 7.5 Haitian dollars in a US dollar) and jumped off the tap tap. We talked through the village to get to Sadrac and Wicky’s house. We sat in the front room of their new place Wicky played guitar and the rest of us sang along.

After a while we decided to head out on a mission. Diana usually helps with the lesson in kids church so being palm Sunday naturally we needed to go find palm branches for the story. We grabbed the machete walked back into a forest more or less where we could find palm branches. It was very entertaining watching the guys climb the palm trees to get the branches, they soon gave up and we decided cut branches off of smaller trees.

This was the first time I had really walked around a village and it was an awesome moment for me. I was soaking it all in… I am actually in Haiti. I loved just walking around the village, watching the children playing in the river. As we walked by the houses the children came running yelling, “White people, white people” in creole of course.

We walked back to the mission with palms in hand, I’m sure it was a sight to see for people driving by. We arrived back the mission just in time for super.

Here is a link to some pictures from the day! CLICK HERE!

Every Saturday night is girls night at Diana’s all the Jr. high girls go up to Diana’s after dinner. Lindsay and I joined in on the fun.  We paint nails, do a short devo and watch a movie. This week’s feature was ‘A Walk to Remember’.  This is just a fun night of winding down and getting to know each other on another level.

After the movie was over Lindsay and I headed down to the guesthouse to make a cakes for the party we were planning in the Village the next night! As mentioned in previous blogs we live next door to wonderful people… on one side is Claudel, Madame Claudel and their three children and on the other side is 6 guys who work on the mission as the interpreters. The time has come for the guys to move back into their village so we decided to have a going away party. We are going to miss them so much. So we made a chocolate cake and a vanilla confetti cake only to wake up the next morning to our cake being served for breakfast.  Lindsay and I were shocked and laughing all at the same time. We took it away and put it in a safe place. Thankfully not a lot of the cake was eaten.

Sunday morning we went to church and had a wonderful morning at kids church! The kids enjoyed the story with props and Wicky sang with them. After church, Lindsay, Michelle, Wicky and I headed into Cabaret for lunch. This was Lindsay’s first time on a tap tap and it was exciting to experience it with her, I was just as excited my second time as we were going to be on it for longer then the day before. When we arrived in Cabaret we all jumped off the tap tap, one after another Lindsay, Michelle and I bumped our heads on the roof, the Haitians all laughed at us. We walked to Yolty’s and had some yummy goat for lunch, a new experience I have come to love. After lunch we went on a hunt to get cell phone cards and change American money into gouds, both tasks we completed without any trouble.  We then headed back to Wicky and Sadracs house so Lindsay could see their place. We sat there for a while and then started to walk to the mission and got picked up part way there by Wakine, Sadracs friend who drove us the rest of the way to the mission and  up  the hill to the village.

Lindsay had to do some work and I continued to make the arrangement for the party. We were trying to get Pizza but there was no pizza to be found so we got BBQ Chicken from Cabaret. The party started around 8pm and it was perfect, We had food, cake, coke, music and good friends! It was the perfect ending to a perfect weekend!

I will attach pictures from the party later!

Love, Blessings and Tap Taps,

Leeann

Construction

Construction has started full fledge here on the mission… As I sat outside earlier and I could hear the noise of big machinery working away and I know that is going to be the “new sound” and the “new quiet” here at the mission. Needs changed after the earthquake and we are building to meet those needs. As I sit here an think about it all I can’t help but think about the spiritual construction God is doing in Haiti. God takes us through experiences to mold us, construct us into what he wants us to be and to fulfill his purpose. Similar to here at the mission, many prayers have been answered. We did not pray for the earthquake but we will soon be able to complete the hospital, which is an answer to prayer. We have had doctors and surgeons here performing surgeries and the church is filled with true worshipers of him.

Last week was an exciting week at school. Last week there was 2 football players from the Philadelphia Eagles come to help and visit the Mission of Hope. On Tuesday they took time out their busy schedule to talk to our class. The kids were able to ask questions and get autographs; we all enjoyed it!

On Thursday our class of 8 plus Michelle left campus for a well-deserved beach day. The kids have a reward system for being on time for school, Diana rings the bell at 8am and they have 5 minutes to get to class. If everyone arrives before the 5 minutes is up they get to put a bell in the toy bus. The same happens after recess, so they have the opportunity to get 2 bells a day. Once we get 50 bells we go on a field trip. I was happy to arrive when they had 38 bells in the bus. It was a perfect day for the beach. We spent the morning by pool and the afternoon by the ocean.

Friday was a different story. It started raining after dinner on Thursday and continued most of Friday morning. Diana had gotten sick after returning from the beach, which made me supply teacher on Friday… It was scary but I made it through.

This morning as I was getting up and getting ready for the day I listened to my neighbours singing and worshiping. I didn’t want leave. I feel truly blessed to have met these guys! If I wasn’t neighbours with them I would have gotten to know them as well as I have. It truly was the sweetest noise!

This evening like every Tuesday I went to the incredible worship service down at the church. After church we went to visit Job and Smider who I will talk about in another blog soon! They are two special need orphans who live here at the mission that have stolen my heart. I ended my night by riding up the hill on the front of the ATV with Michelle in the driver seat and Lindsay and Diana on the back; all of us were wearing skirts!

I will blog again soon!

Here is a link to some more pictures...Click here to see pictures

Love blessings construction and worship,

Leeann

The Body Of Christ

Just a few hours after writing my last blog, I was hit with a sickness… a bug.  A couple people had been getting over it the day before and apparently gave it to me. It was horrible… vomiting, diarrhea, headache, fever and achiness. This is something us staff here on the mission lovingly call Haitian Sensation. Me along with many others continued to get this bug… for most it was a 24 hour thing but for others it was a few days. I thank God that the worst of the bug was gone very quickly although it lingered for a few days. On top of all this there was a bunch of people on vacation. When I think of all the sickness and vacation and all the work that was being done by others while some were either sick or away makes me think of the Body of Christ. We as Christians are all part of the body of Christ and work together. We here at the Mission Of Hope function as a unit like the body of Christ, some of us have smaller rolls then other but they are still vital to make everything run smoothly here at the mission. When someone is away or sick others compensate for them. Last week we experienced this big time and I praise God for my Mission of Hope family who helped me with the girls while the van der marks were away and when I was sick.  The staff did an amazing job at filling the gaps to make everything run smoothly.

Needless to say I am happy that the van der Mark’s and Diana are back, refreshed and go to have a relaxing week off. Pray for them as they jumped right back into their roles full swing.

Six weeks have gone by so fast and I don’t update this blog nearly as much as I want to… I fall into bed exhausted every night amazed at what happens in one day here at the mission.  I live with the medical team coordinator so sometimes her walky-talky goes off in the night.  The other I heard it… we had a police officer come the gate with abdominal pains and vomiting, we also had a child who was in a motor-cycle accident come in early this morning with a foot injury. While I sleep there are still people hard at work somewhere on the mission.  I don’t even know about half the work that goes on here at the mission but I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again I am very excited to be here in Haiti a part of such an awesome organization who loves Haiti and the Haitian people soooo much. Its not very hard to fall in love with Haiti.

Another update… If you remember me talking about my friend Gabby who had a skin graft done on both of his legs. He is doing so well. I went to visit him on Monday night; my visits last week had been very short because I was watching the girls. So Monday night I told him I would come visit him and play cards. While I was there he hoped up on a chair, he later got up and was walking. I was speechless! I was so excited that he was up and walking… he was just as excited that he was up and walking and mobile again. Now when I go down the ward I go into his room expecting him to be lying in the bed but sometimes hes up and about sitting in the hall. He seems to be healing well except one of his legs is getting infected as his foot was swollen yesterday. Continue to pray for him as he continues to heal and pray that his spirits stay high as he stays in the ward for a little while longer.

In other news… Lindsay, Jeanine and I are finally almost settled into our new place and I’m excited about our bar fridge that should be arriving in the next couple days. The last couple nights we have been able to go down to our apartment and just sit outside and chill. Its so nice just to have a space to go and relax and wined down after a busy day.  The apartments is still a mess, it slowly but surely will get organized and feel like home. I will post pictures when it looks a little better.

So that was my past week and a half! Crazy busy but I loved every minute of it because I’m in Haiti and that is where God has called me to be right now and I know that I know this is where I am suppose to be!

Love, Blessings and Haitian Sensation,

Leeann