LDS Volunteers Give Comfort on Relief Ship

The USNS Comfort - a medical ship - has held several LDS volunteers for the past few months. Some have returned home to relate their stories.

Pleasant Grove’s Sheryl Flanary is home now, but she still thinks of “Mich,” the undersized Haitian boy abandoned at age 10 and plagued with brittle, crooked legs after prolonged bouts with rickets.

Having learned some English after being taken in by a missionary in Haiti, Mich enjoyed celebrity status on the USNS Comfort, the full-service U.S. Navy hospital ship that carried Flanary and 650 other medical personnel on “Continuing Promise 2009” — a four-month, seven-nation humanitarian mission still winding its way through the Caribbean and Central America and into South America.

Everyone enjoyed chatting with Mich, but Flanary, a registered nurse, relished a few special moments of her own with a boy not much bigger than your average 5-year-old.

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