Zazou

Zazou 

Madison and Zazou <3

Obed, Madison, and adorable Zazou!!! :) 

Zazou going to school 

She is so cute!!!

I love Zazou so much!! I first met her on Sunday, after we came back from the orphanage. Ramces was there with one of his friends. Ramces said something that made us think that Zazou was his friends daughter. So we kept asking Ramces if it was ok for to do things like eat dinner. We asked Ramces thinking he would ask his friend. Every time we asked him he gave us a look like why do you keep asking me about her? Im not her father. It was very strange for us. She was shy at first but I went over and started playing with her. I was holding her sitting on the edge of the balcony. Zazou had a pretty pink crayon in her hand, and when she showed me her big beautiful smile I saw a little pink residue on her back molar. I asked her, in Creole, if she ate the crayon. She had this embarrassed look and said, "No."  I thought her lie was cute, wrong, but cute. Shawn was freaking out about me sitting on the edge of the balcony by myself once I was sitting with a squeamish little girl he made me get off. Shawn gave me his lawn chair. I sat Zazou on my lap and turned her front toward mine. She started playing patty cake with me, it was really cute! Then she would bump her head against mine and say, "oww." I puffed up my cheek so that when she rammed her head on my face it wouldn't hurt. She saw it as another game and started pushing out the air in my cheeks. Then Ramces and his friend left. We were like, "Why did you leave your daughter?" We are like yelling at Ramces to come back and we asked Obed to talk to her and find out why he left her. Obed started laughing and said, "That is not her dad this is James' cousin." We laughed for a long time and I continued to play with her. Sadly Frantzy came to take her home. Then she came over on Monday and Brenda played with her for a little bit. After a while I got Zazou and held her until she had to go home. Zazou came over on Tuesday night and we played patty cake and the cheek thingy. Then I remembered that my mom brought nail polish, she was going to paint the girls nails at the orphanage. I told Zazou to stay there and ran to go get the pink and pink nail polish. I asked her which shade she liked best and she picked the shade that looked exactly like the crayon she had on Sunday. I started painting her nails, in the dark, and then Shawn came over and held a flashlight for me. I showed her how to blow dry her nails, she listened really well. It made me so proud of her! When I was finished doing her hands and feet I carried her around showing them to all the people in the house. I wanted her to feel special. They all said, "Tres bel." Which means very beautiful. It made her smile and glow! I was so happy that she was smiling. Then everyone wanted me to pack for Wednesday so I went into our room, holding Zazou, and started packing. I sat her right next to me and she just stayed there until I was done. I gave her a starburst and she was fiddling with it while she waited. When I was done I went out to the front of the house and got her another starburst. When she saw that I was going to give her another one she started to eat the one she had, with the wrapper still on it. I tried to take it from her and she was not very happy. Finally I got it from her, took the wrapper off and gave it to her. She was all grumpy but when I gave it to her she started sucking on it and chewing on it turned her frown upside down. It was almost like a baby screaming at the top of their lungs and then giving them a pacifier and they suck on it. It was really fun. She did not need my help anymore after that. It was fun taking pictures with her and she got to stay a lot longer than she had before. It was a very fun night with her, but of course Frantzy came to take her away. I remembered Wednesday morning that I never said goodbye to her. Thankfully Josh got to take some stuff down,  for her, with him in July. I just found out that Zazou had cholera. Thankfully that is over but now she has a fever. Please pray for her fever to go away and for her to regain her health. The fact that she goes to school tells me that her family had a little bit of money but I don't think she lives too well. Please pray,  for her family, that she would know how much God loves her, that she can succeed in school, that she would work hard, that she would know how much I love her and that she would be healthy and safe. Thank you so much for reading about this adorable little princess! Bondye beni Ou! (God bless you!) 

Love, 

Madison 

Obed

Obed 

Ben, Obed, Frantzy, and Shawn getting ready for the birthday party at the orphanage. 

Obed :) 

Shawn, Ben, Sarah, Frantzy, and Obed. 

Obed, Madison, and Zazou having fun on Tuesday night! 

Obed and Josh playing around :) 

 Obed lived in a tiny room directly across the boys bathroom on the second floor. Now we knew the Arris family would be living with us but we thought they would all be downstairs. So we were very confused when we saw this boy, who we did not even know was part of the Arris family, hanging out and sleeping on our floor. We were very suspicious of him and did not really know he was part of the Arris family until Sunday. Brenda bonded with him on Sunday and then on Monday most of the others bonded as well. I first became friends with Obed monday evening, after we came back from Megan's house. He had gone to school early in the morning and I asked him how school was. He said that it was fine, so I asked him which classes he takes. He told me that he takes Physics and Chemistry ect... I was surprised because normally we only take onee of those classes at a time. I love chemistry so I was extremely excited to talk about that! I asked him if he knew what Q=MC^T is and he looked at me like I was psycho. I laughed at his look and tried to explain it again. Q is energy, M is mass and while I was telling him this he is like no energy for us is W. I really couldn't believe it but it was fun. Then on Monday night Josh, Adam, Mack, My mom, and Myself talked to Obed for like 3 hours. My mom left after a while and then Adam joined us. I asked Obed what their weddings are like he was not very specific, I should have know that a 17 year old boy wouldn't care about wedding details. :) We talked about music, he was always singing. In the morning and late night he sung worship music and then in the middle of the day he watched MTV music videos. I asked him who his favorite singer was and he said Rhianna. I have never liked her so it was a fun seen. He would start singing one of her songs and I would try not to throw up. It was lots of fun, I'm kind of fond of her now :) Mom wanted him to know his favorite Justin Beiber song and she said it in a silly way. As soon as Adam heard her talking about JB he got all defensive, "Don't you be hatting on the Beebs." He said, " That is my little buddy, I have like adopted him." It was really cute and quite funny :) Now we had 2 lizards walking on the roof every night, and I really like lizards. So I asked Obed if he had ever held a lizard before, I will never forget his response for the rest of my life! He said, in this super diva like voice, "WHAT?!?! Why would I ever do that?!?" Oh my goodness it was so hilarious everyone was laughing for like a half hour. I asked him why he reacted like that and he said, "I don't like lizards." So then everyone started asking him if he liked other animals, bears, cats, dogs, birds, tigers ect.. He told us he dose not like any anmials at all. I was so sad because I love animals! We asked him why he never sleeps he told us, "I'm young so Im going to stay up late and wake up early and have fun. Then when Im old Ill sleep." Brenda, the mom of the group, overheard him say that and was not fond of that plan, so she let him know. It was fun to watch. :) Then Obed talked to us about memorizing the bible. He said, "I have a lot of verses memorized in French and in English." He said that when he was younger his mom made him memorize and if he didn't she would "Slap" him.  For some reason that was a really funny thing to all of us. We talked about other random things for a while and then Adam came over and Obed started playing around with him. He was like making fun of him it crazy. Josh said, "I cant believe that a little 17 year old boy is making fun of a really big football player." Obed was joking around with Adam's muscles and stuff like that. It was hilarious! We had lots of fun with Obed! He is my friend on facebook so I get to talk to him alot. Josh went down to Haiti on July 1st, so we sent a lot of stuff down with him for the Arris family, Michelle and Chantell's family.  Obed turned 17 on June 30th so we sent a lot of stuff down for his birthday. Obed just started going to the orphanage so I asked him if he saw my girls and he said he would look for them. Then he went to the orphanage again and told me he had seen Kedlene. I was very excited to hear that she was still there, even though the orphanage is bad the stuff that happens to them out of the orphanage is 12X worse. Obed offered to take letters to my girls, which is really awesome. I wrote a letter for Arianna, Kedlene, and Ketia. I put some bible verses in them and a poem telling them how wonderful God has made them. I really tried to focus on building their self esteem. I told them how much I love them, how much God loves them, how beautiful they are, and how much I want to be there holding them. He just gave the letters to the girls a few days ago. Im so thankful for that! I can not wait until I go back to Haiti and spend lots of time with Obed. Before we were kind of creeped out by him the first few days and then we found out how awesome he was. I regret not spending all the time I could with him, he is a really awesome guy. He is my best friend! :) But when I go back we will be spending like every moment together, since he is going to come to the orphanage with us and be staying at the same house as us. It is going to be lots of fun! Im going to teach him how to play the piano and he is going to teach me how to live in Haiti. He is already teaching me Creole and some things about Haiti. Please pray for Obed that God can use him in the orphanage and that his surgery will go well. Pray also for his happiness because he has lived a hard life and has not got the opportunity to be very much of a teenager. Please pray also for his future that he can figure out what God wants him to do. Thanks so much for reading this! As Obed would say, "Peace!"

Love, 

Madison

Frantzy

Frantzy 

Frantzy spent a lot of time in the house. He did not live in the house and was not an orphan. He took out our trash. I met him on Friday night we played with moms phone it was way cool! One of the team members did not like Frantzy and because this person had leadership over me I did not spend as much time with him as I should have. Its understand able that they were skidish around Frantzy because everything was new to us and we didnt really know who to trust with our stuff. He was a 100% little boy, he was just like the boys here. It was really cute :) Frantzy was about 8 years old. He would dance with me and just play around. It was really awesome! I love Frantzy and I hope to spend more time with him next time I go. Please pray for him just to know how much God loves him, and how much I love him!  Thank you for reading this! Bondye beni ou! (God bless you, in Creole.) 

Love, 

Madison 

Wendy

Wendy 

Ben has a lot more of photos of Wendy but he has not given them to anyone yet....

 I first met Wendy, on Saturday, when he came up to me with a translator to beg me to take him to the clinic.  As soon as he asked me that I felt panicked, sad, angry, and motivated to help him. I was sure that he would be in tons of pain to ask me to go so I asked the translator, who did not work for us but for "Pr." Max, to ask Wendy what hurt. The translator told me that Wendy said that nothing was wrong he only wanted to go and have fun. I stayed with him until we left to the clinic he was a really fun kid. He has a wonderful smile, and I love him so much! A few hours latter Wendy asked a translator, who worked for us, to come over and ask me why I have not taken him to the clinic yet. I explained that we would go but we had to wait until the people, who were at the clinic, came back. They were taking a really long time because Ben was leading Arianna to Christ. While the translator was still there I asked him to ask Wendy why he wanted to go to the clinic. He said that Wendy said that his arms and legs itch and are very sore. I was, then, very angry with the other translator who lied to me. Wendy's father, supposedly, is a leader of a gang and, supposedly, made Wendy shoot people. If that is true, which it wouldn't surprise me if it is, Wendy needs a lot of prayer as well as his father. Wendy is about 10 years old.  Thank you for reading this! 

Love, 

Madison

Rachel

Rachel 

Haha My hair is all messed up from the kids trying to braid it. :) 

Beautiful smile!! :) 

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This is Rachel, a wonderful little girl! It saddens me to make this post because I looked through everyones pictures of the orphanage, all 2,000 of them, and i did not find any pictures of her except these 2 that I took. Apparently she did not make an impact on anyone other than me. I wanted her to hang out with me I kept trying to include her in things but she refused to participate. She was wearing the same outfit every day which means she is not taken care of  very well at all! I hope she knows God loves her and that I love her. Maybe next time she will be more open with me. Please pray for her to understand her importance to God and me. I wish she would have had more fun. 

Love, 

Madison

Sophia and Melinda

Sophia and Melinda 

Melinda and Zac, one of the guys working with Megan.

Sophia. She fell a sleep like 3 mins after I started holding her. 

She had a very bad fever, and the heat was not helping it. Thanks to God all of that heat did not bother me at all! 

Mommy got Melinda on saturday and had her until we left.

Sophia and Mack.

Sophia and Stephanie. 

First picture, at the orphanage! I was super ecstatic that I had a baby in my hands. 

This picture is so sad. It makes me think of a world hope picture. 

"I'm holding a baby!" :) 

Mom and Melinda at the clinic. 

Sophia was the first kid I held. I thought she was like 13 months old but after hearing stuff from all the people there Im pretty sure she is like 3 1/2 years old. Melinda she looks like she is 7 months old but we found out that she is about 16 months old. The kids have such poor nutrition that their bodies do not develop like ours.  It is very sad to see their bodies so far behind. Sophia is so cute!! I went to Haiti excited to hold babies and as soon as I walked in the door I had a sweet little baby, or at least I thought she was a baby, in my arms. I only held Sophia on Friday. Mom was given Melinda on Saturday and she took her to the clinic.   Mom got to give her a bag of water, which was a very cute thing to see. On Sunday when we went to the orphanage Melinda had massive bumps all over her body they were very tender and nasty looking. Mom had a hard time holding her because she couldn't touch anything without causing her pain. If having these massive bumps and nastiness wasn't enough she had a fever too. :(  Melinda is Sophia's baby sister. Please pray for healing for Melinda and Sophia, and that neither of them get worse than they already are. Pray also that they would know how much God loves them and that he will never leave them. Thank you so much! 

Love, 

Madison 

Bettina

Bettina 

Already tagged 

This link takes you to a picture of Bettina and her mom Betty. 

Bettina literally is the most adorible little girl ever!!! She is 4 years old, her mom Betty is 15. Both of them live in the orphanage. When I walked into the cortyard, on saturday, Bettina put her arms up for me to hold her, and I held her until Tuesday. She reminds me of the jungle book. Why? I know not but maybe this picture will explain my thought.

 

Any-who. I had fun holding her all day saturday. Thankfully she made it to the clinic. I took her because she had fallen asleep on me and I didn't want to wake her up. Yay she will be partly healthy for the next 3 months!! On Sunday, when I was holding her, she started singing, I'm free, by the newsboy's, it was SUPER adorable!! I had lots of fun holding her on Tuesday, as well. When we were upstairs drawing creation wheels. She was asking one of the girls, who had a bag of crayons, for a certain color. When the little girl did not give her that color, but a relatively ugly color, Bettina started hitting her. So I grabbed her hands and then she started kicking her! So I grabbed her hands and feet, she was not very happy... at all. I told her, in Creole, that she needed to tell the girl that she was sorry... She stubbornly refused, but it did not help that the little girl was saying, "yeah, say your sorry." So Bettina saw Ben and ran over to him. They had loads of fun together for the rest of the night. :) She was very well taken care of, which is a good thing. It is just sad because she is favored over all the other kids. Of course she needs our prayers! I would recommend praying for her 15 year old mom! Betty who is a baby herself and has no one to care for her while she cares for her sweet baby.. But I want you to pray how, when, and who you feel moved by the sprit to pray. Thank you so much for your support!! 

Love, 

Madison  

Ketia

Ketia 

Ketia was a sweetie. She is definitely treated the worse out of all the kids. Thankfully she made it to the clinic and I'm pretty sure got some medicine. She is really sick, in fact, if I'm not mistaken, she has a staff infection. All the kids treated her like a leper, they wanted nothing to do with her, and they most defiantly didn't want her to touch us. We noticed her long face on sunday and I asked her if she wanted me to hold her. She hung her head down in shame and nodded her head no. Again I asked her if I could hold her on Tuesday she said no but I could tell that she did not mean it. I grabbed her and sat her on my lap and both of the girls who I was holding, Kedlen who was a mega sweetie, and Bettina, hit her away. I could tell that they were telling her to go away because she was dirty. I said no and stopped them from hitting her. They let her sit there for a few minuets and then they told her to leave again. I would not let her leave, I told her that I loved her and wouldn't ever let her go. Then after a few minuets she just felt so bad, from the kids yelling at her to leave me, so she went away. She was wearing that whiney the pooh nightgown when we got there, on Friday. When the older ladies started washing the little kids, on Tuesday, mom brought her over to get washed and non verbally said, "wash her?" Thankfully they did wash her and she got something new and clean to wear. I regret with all of my heart not loving on her more! I should have picked her up on Friday and never let her go! I wont make that mistake ever again!!! When I go back in September she is the first person I'm going to hold. Hopefully she will still be alive then. She was so sick that we are all worried that she wont be. It would be really awesome if you could pray for her. She needs the most prayer out of all those kids, unfortunately. Please pray for healing from her many sicknesses, for new confidence, that she would be accepted by everyone at the orphanage, and, most importantly, that she would know how much God loves her. Those pictures of her smiling take my breath away! Because when my mom tried to take a picture of us she would not even look at the camera she was so embarrassed about herself. Im very thankful Brenda could get her to smile! Thank you so much for hearing these kids stories! They really need our prayers! 

Love, 

Madison 

P.S. I don't know how old she is for sure but she cant be more than 7 years old. Also, she was very new to the orphanage just like Kedlene and Arianna. 

Arianna

Arianna 

The most beautiful woman I have ever seen! 

The exact place were she accepted Jesus into her heart. 

She looks so young in this picture. I guess that is because she is young,
but I always thought of her as the same age as me. 

Arianna is the most beautiful, kind, sweet, caring, joyful woman you will ever meet! She is 12 years old! Just a baby. :) I met her on sunday and continued to connect with her until we left. She spoke a lot of english! I was super surprised at that. She also spoke French and of course Creole. I did not know any of this until I got back, but Arianna had only been at the orphanage for 2 days before we got there! Just before she arrived she had been abducted and sexually assaulted. Ben was talking to her on Saturday while she was waiting at the clinic and learned about this. He was unsure of what to do for her? How could a man comfort a little girl that had just gone through that? He says he felt the spirt leading him to share the gospel, so that is what he did! She accepted Jesus into her heart right then and there! I'm the super excited to see her in heaven  where her pain and suffering will end and she can be safe. I got the opportunity to hold her and love her all day sunday and then a lot on tuesday. Earlier in the morning, on Tuesday, she was sitting next to me and I was telling her how beautiful she is and how much God and I love her, when she said to me, "You my mom?"  Man that made me so happy and sad I wanted to cry! How wonderful that she would want me to be her mom! And how terrible that a 12 year old girl would even have to consider a 16 year old girl her mother?  It was a great honor to me that out of all the wonderful ladies there, who all loved and cared for her, that she would pick me to have the honor of being called her mom. Im very scared for my little girl because she is in this horrible place, without any love from her parents, who knows if they are alive?, and has just been attacked by the devil for no reason! She was not sick when we left but I fear that being exposed to all of those different sickness after being healthy will turn out really poorly. I would love it if you could pray for her, that she would know how much God loves her, how much I love her, and that her life is going to get better.  Thank you for reading this, I feel that when you hear their stories they impact your heart and show you how much they need love, help, and most importantly prayer! 

God bless you and your family!

Love, 

Madison 

P.S. I now have a way to send messages to the kids at the orphanage, if you would like to say something, a bible verse, word of encouragement, a poem, whatever you feel led to say, please email me, at coolkim333@yahoo.com, and I will make sure it gets to them! Thanks again!