This week has been pretty quiet, going about our normal routines. I’ve been going through the medical inventory, trying to make sure it’s ready for the team that comes in September. This week, I have bagged literally thousands of pills of acetaminophen and ibuprofen into baggies of ten pills. But I feel like I’m being more useful, so that’s good. This week I plan to continue going through everything, making sure pills are bagged for the health clinic’s pharmacy and making sure the counts taken in April are still accurate.
This past weekend, we had been planning on going to the Mayan ruins of Copan with Juan Carlos’ family. However on Wednesday evening, Francis got the call that his 10-year-old daughter, Daniela, was being taken to the hospital because they were afraid she had Dengue, a fever carried by mosquitoes that can be fatal. I guess the hospital released her that night to be cared for at home, then we didn’t hear anything for the rest of the week. This morning after church Daniela came up and gave me a hug, and said she was feeling better. She still looked pale and very tired, but she was smiling her and acting like her normal self. Thank you for your prayers for her, she is a very special girl and I thank God that she is okay!
Thank you also for your prayers for my encouragement, especially on Sundays. This morning was better than the previous two Sundays have been. I was still ready to go back to the house after spending more than two hours trying to understand Spanish, but I was not as overwhelmed and sad as I had felt before. Thank you for all your prayers.
This week Jim comes back and we will hopefully got to Copan with him this weekend. I might also have the opportunity to go with my friend Kystelle (a friend from OCC who is also in Tegucigalpa this summer working with a ministry) for a day and work with their ministry. I also want to finish the medical inventory stuff, and achieve some of my goals for Spanish-learning for the summer. I think the week is going to fly by. But I’m going to try and do a few more updates this week to get all my final thoughts out. I’ve been thinking about the poverty and the different cultural differences the whole time I’ve been here and finally might be able to put together my thoughts and feelings and other reflections from my time here. I was going to in this post I thought, but it is longer than I expected it to be.
So again, thanks for your prayers, keep them up please!
Prayer Requests
-Jim’s safe travel to Honduras
-Daniela’s continued healing and recovery
-that I will be even more productive for the ministry this week, and serve the God’s purpose for bringing me here this summer, learning everything He has for me to learn while I’m here
here are a few of my favorite pictures from the past couple weeks:
Nicole, Andrea and I in a huge tree in a small town called Ojojona
sorting and bagging the medicine for the medical clinic
Krystelle and I, two gringas in Tegucigalpa!
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