We had our last clinic on Monday. The other two clinics, we had two vehicles to ride in, but one of them needed to go to the shop on Monday. We all squeezed ourselves into a fifteen passenger van. We were in each others laps. Literally. We drove about an hour and half to our next location. We set up and started as soon as we could. Each of our church members had the chance to either share the gospel to the people waiting or share their testimony. To start out with, I hadn't been asked to speak in front of them. As I was sitting in my chair looking at the people watching and listening intently to our church members, I felt something stir within me whispering to me that I needed to go up.
You see, speaking in front of a crowd is not my thing. It scares me to death. That's why that something so deep in my soul was not me. That was not something I as thinking about doing. It wasn't me. Normally, I would've been so relieved not to go up. But this time was just different. So I went up to our pastor and told him that I wanted to tell these beautiful people a little bit of my testimony.
So I waited my turn. When it was my turn to go up, I actually wasn't nervous at all. I felt the Lord there with me. I was not afraid, not even in the least. So I shared my testimony. As I was about halfway through speaking, I did feel something inside of me saying that I wasn't really clicking with them, or they didn't really care. I continued on though. When I finished, I didn't expect them to smile. I maybe expected them to nod. When I finished they not only smiled, but they all clapped. It was a big deal for me because it meant that they were listening to everything I was saying. They heard it all.
I felt so warmed afterwards and then took my seat and continued handing out glasses. Towards the end of the clinic we started to run out of glasses, which I thought was a good thing. We had served a lot of people! The third clinic ended up being the most successful with almost a hundred people coming through. Once we packed up all our stuff, we jumped back into the van and headed to Fort Liberte.
When we arrived, it took my breath away. The water was so clear. It was stunning. We walked around the fort and just took it all in. Since the fort was right next to the water, we decided to stick our feet in the water. You'd be surprised to hear that even the water was warm!
After we were through walking around, we hopped into the van and headed back to the compound. We hung out in the porch and watched mangoes fall out of the massive mango tree in the compound. I breathed in the last evening in Haiti. We ate our dinner and wrapped up the very last day.
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