All in Gods time

I am amazed how God truly does have a plan for us. I thought I was going to go on this life-changing expedition to Haiti, but MY plans did not work out. As I mentioned in my previous post, we were supposed to leave for our Haiti trip, but it was cancelled the night before! Praise God that we listened to him and did not go because it was not HIS plan. Now looking back, I was not even remotely prepared to go when I thought I was.

So, I officially became a nurse and about a week later I had my interview for my dream job; to work at a local hospital on the Labor/Delivery and Post-Partum unit. Praise God, I was offered the job and of course I accepted! I started orientation about a week after that. Everything felt like it was coming into place for me, finally!

I shortly found out the name of the nurse that was supposed to be my preceptor (orienter), Cynthia. That is all I knew, I had never met her or anything. One day at church, I ran into one of the Haiti team member veterans, Dr. Mandy. I was asking her questions about when the next trip was scheduled, what were the plans, etc. She told me that it was looking like we were going to go in October. She told me a couple of people who were planning on coming. She said that there was a nurse at the same hospital I worked at that was interested in going. I asked her what the nurses name was and she said, "CYNTHIA". I about died. It was the same exact person that was supposed to be my preceptor!!! Lets just say that I got chills!

On my first day of work, I met Cynthia. We immediately had a connection because we knew we were planning on going to Haiti together in October. Again, I am in awe of Gods plan and his timing! He is always on point! Cynthia is a wonderful Godly woman who is very kind and has a gentle and caring spirit. She is also very calm and patient (very much the opposite of me, so I needed her). She taught me everything I know, well maybe not everything, but all the good stuff! I had a wonderful experience orienting under Cynthia. We worked together for about 8 weeks, so we had a good indication of how well we would work together in Haiti. Cynthia and I talked about our upcoming trip probably everyday we worked together. Lets just say we were so excited!

Up next....
The actual first trip to Haiti! We finally made it!