An instument in the Lord's hand

I just had a glorious moment where I feel I am being used as an instrument in the Lord's hand. Tonight I was reading in the Ensign about helping Brazilians grow vegetables to improve their diet and suddenly something came together for me in how to help the Haitians. The following is taken from the email I just sent to the organizer of the trip we didn't get to take to Haiti.

I believe this evening I was blessed with a visionary moment. I am a gardener and am trying the 12 foot garden method where you build your own soil. I was looking on line to see what I should get for my soil. The site I went to suggested compost and mentioned vermicompost as being the best soil but it is expensive--that is unless you raise your own which I do. Vermicompost is made by worms eating the parts of fruits and vegetables that humans cannot eat. I have a plastic tub 15 1/2" X 23" X 4". My husband computes that a container that size would make one cubic foot of soil per month.

The size is not important and even the container is not important--except worms would eat cardboard and also the moisture would destroy cardboard. I feed my worms about every two weeks although I could feed them more often if I had more space for more worms. They do not even consume a tidbit of the vegetable waste I have and what I have is mostly the ends off things like carrots, cores of apples, etc. I make the worm beds out of torn up newspaper. In other words, the soil is basically made out of garbage that probably even Haitians throw away.

Every two weeks, the worms have reproduced enough and eaten enough that I am able to remove half the soil and worms. In the winter, I don't know what to do with all of it. Haiti has no winter. If a million families in Haiti were to do this with one small container this size, they could produce a million cubic feet a month of the richest topsoil in the world. What a quick solution to their topsoil problem.

The soil grows vegetables and fruits in abundance, the soil could be sold, the worms could be sold. I've got worms I'll donate to get it going. I speak French and have been studying Haitian Creole for about four years (my husband does also). We even have current passports now--that was what kept us from going with the Utah task force. I would be glad to go and teach the people. I have made application to work for Jet Blue but have not yet heard if I have been hired. If I am, my husband and I will be able to fly into the Dominican Republic at a price we can afford and go to Haiti ourselves. (We served a temple mission in the Dominican Republic and know many Haitians personally.)

Anyway, we wanted to share this visionary message with someone we think can also catch the vision. This will provide food, soil, and money to Haitians with virtually no cost to anyone and it is on-going and sustainable. They just need some worms and vegetable seeds to get get going which is easy enough to provide. What could be more beautiful?

What can I say? I am excited. I feel I have been inspired.