Robin's blog

     Today we went to Hearts United’s center to do some teaching and speak English with the people that had completed the English class. We went over to the center and set up. Today we learned what it is like to be completely flexible and faithful to what God’s plan was for us today. So by saying that let me explain why; Hannah, Lucas, and I had prepared education on blood pressure and Diabetes. However no one showed up for our classes, but it turned out to be a very good thing. So instead of teaching we sorted Crystal’s packets for the English classes and this was a lot of fun to do with Jack, Hannah, and Lucas. We then had Fritznel (the gentleman was the man who was taken to Dr. Carl who removed the dead tissue from the man’s hand) come in to center to have his hand looked at and we changed his bandage. His hand had started to heal very well and the swelling in the hand had gone down a good bit. After we changed his bandage we then began to talk to him because we saw a cross tattoo on his right arm. We found out that he has four children and 3 of them live in the USA and the forth lives here in Haiti. We found out that his tattoo was for his first son because he does believe in God and did not want to change his life. We then had the opportunity to explain that he is loved and the gospel message. This was a real blessing because we were able to learn from the man and see that God was at work in the healing of his hand and that conversation that we were able to have.
Later on today we went up the mountain to the over look at which we could see that the city and spend time with the team. So a few of the group stayed back with some local kids at the outlook and Hannah, Lucas, Morgan, Crystal, James, and I went to find a young girl that Crystal knows that has down syndrome. On our way up there Gary (a friend of Crystal’s) took us up to see the family. Gary speaks almost perfect English so helped James translate for us. We got up to the family and we met the little girl who sang multiple songs (it was very evident to see the joy that she has and her love of life). We then started taking blood pressures. We found 3 people with extremely high blood pressure. There was one lady that we took her blood pressure and she had a wound on her one hip which Hannah cleaned and I assisted. After we did that Lucas told us about a young girl of sixteen who he taken a blood pressure on and it turned out to be 172/120. So we found her mother which was the lady that had the wound on her hip. So, I then with the help of Gary, explained how this blood pressure was extremely dangerous and something has to be done. So we explained that the mother needs to change her cooking habits and that she needs to take her daughter to see a doctor. So Crystal set steps into motion to help the mother and the daughter.
     Today was not something that I had expected but it did have the hand of God  weaved through out it.
-Robin Mussig