Week ONE!!!

Yayyyyyy still alive and kicking after the first of our teams in January. We just spent an incredible week with the folks from VIMM (Volunteers in Medical Missions) and a team from Danville, PA....watching them dig in at the barrio clinics and just LOVE ON PEOPLE. It was the coolest.

We were in various places in Elias Pina for the most part and I forgot how much I LOVE going to the barrios. One of our goals is to continue to introduce more education into our barrio clinics and one of my favorite things was watching Leah, one of the Danville all-stars, do charlas (talks) with Pastor Widmy to the waiting patients. She talked about dental care and parasites and drinking clean water and all sorts of good stuff. We were able to incorporate some one to one.... face to face prayer time with the patients too and that was really meaningful to me. We talk with the teams about how handing out meds is great and all....but giving folks education is KEY...and then sharing Jesus is even MORE key. Seeing it in action is awesome!

So most of today was spent in the med room trying to pull it together for the next team coming in tomorrow..and then (of course) some dominos tonight. I'm feeling shot, pretty emotionally beat, on the exhausted side. But I know that tomorrow when we see the eager faces of the next folks to get going....it will invigorate me. And also, Terry Wellman is here helping Laura and I...and she might be the greatest thing that has ever hit the clinic. She has organized almost EVERYTHING out there and I could just cry for joy knowing that in another week when the first surgical team comes.... they will reap the benefits of all of her hard work. She and I have decided together that the Scary Room will need to wait. I'd post a new picture but honestly- it wouldn't do the horror of that room any justice. :)

I'm psyched for this week because our barrio clinics are near El Cercado and I'm hoping to sneak to the house for some sweeeeetttttt rice and beans for lunch if I can.  :)  Doubt it will happen but one can always hope....

Anyhoo- bendiciones a todooooo.....til next week...