Monday, July 21, 2008

Again, we had such an incredible day. It started when we got off the buses at the medical site. We had a good line already waiting for us when we arrived. We set up shop and then went back outside for an opening devotional and prayer.

We "warmed up the crowd" with a few simple songs and Bill Powell gave a wonderful devotional about living a life of peace and serenity thanks to the grace of God and gave a demonstration with the small plastic vials that are then heated and blasted into two litre bottles for softdrinks. Two litre Coke bottles are things that anyone in practically any country can relate to.The prayer time was really meaningful and set the day off on a perfect note.

Today I got to work in the vitamin and worming station outside the pharmacy. That is one place where EVERYONE comes to get the anti-parasite medicine and their vitamins. So today was a little more hectic than yesterday but I can sure say"take one vitamin every day with your breakfast" really really fast now in Spanish.

According to our dentist, Bill Powell, there was one little boy about six years old whose teeth have all become rotten and will have to be pulled. He pulled some today and over the next couple of days, the poor little boy will have all of his teeth pulled.

One little girl about 8, her face painted with flowers on each cheek, came up excitedly and asked if we were going to be there in her neighborhood "for ever". Her little face fell when I told her today was the last day.

We ended our two days at this location with a really large Bible study and the attendees will hopefully be the core of a new church established in that neighborhood. I was fortunate to meet a number of really strong women over the last two days and hopefully they will be leaders in the new congregation.When we left, a group of about 30 people lined the little road and waved goodbye to us! It really touched my heart to see their faces.

Tomorrow we go to a new location and I understand it is actually inside a newly built church. The conditions at the last location were not that bad except for the dirt floor. There was a functioning toilet which makes life a LOT easier.Tonight was our first free time and Veronica, Egla and I walked down to the main Plaza and of course, found an ice cream parlor. I had something called maracuya and it was delicious.

I will write more tomorrow but we are leaving extra early as the new location is on the far outskirts of town.

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