Journey to the Top Lot

<p>Lesley grew up on a farm milking cows in the boonies of New York. At the age of seventeen she was an exchange student to Lima Peru. </p><p><br></p><p>Following in her mother's footsteps a generation later she graduated from Vassar Brothers Hospital School of Nursing as a Registered Nurse. Her career of forty-four years included Emergency Room nursing. </p><p><br></p><p>She adopted a baby girl from Colombia and five years later had a baby boy! </p><p><br></p><p>Lesley was a very protesting Protestant until God opened her eyes and heart to the Roman Catholic Church. Her conversion story was a mini miracle and the night she entered the Catholic Church God spoke to her heart about what he wanted her to do with her life. That is the building of a retreat center on the top lot for God's good priests on the frontlines. </p><p><br></p><p>Lesley entered the Order of Secular Franciscans in 1999. An order in the Catholic Church for lay people who follow St. Francis of Assisi's teachings. </p><p><br></p><p>I hope and pray this book touches your heart and helps you to ask God what HE wants you to do with your life. </p><p>The rest is yet to come. Thank you for your prayers. Lesley Mason Vaitekunas OFS</p>