Martes (Tuesday)
Hola!
Today the medical team was at the Mealer (sorry, last night's spelling was incorrect) community while the Muy Debil Construction Team was at Gracias a Dios once again. The medical team saw 180 people and gave out over 200 deworming pills as well as around 40 eyeglasses. It was very stuffy in the school in the morning, but luckily an afternoon rain helped cool things off. This community is in the midst of building a fairly good sized church, but have run out of funds and still need a considerable amount. A few team members visited Jorge, who has Muscular Dystrophy and is now in a wheelchair. His mother is a single mom of four kids who started building a house, but is not finished and is living with her brother next door. This family could really use prayers and our group is going to discuss possible options tomorrow night, I believe. Also please pray for the pastor's son, who is most likely sick, but we do not know with what. Zach, who was manning the eyeglasses station had a very interesting character. He was around 75 years old and wore a cowboy hat. After lunch he engaged me in conversation and left me a little bewildered as I tried (and thought I succeeded) in telling him I didn't know very much Spanish and had more trouble listening than speaking. Luckily Jen was walking by and managed to tell him what was up. Later at the eyeglass station, he spent about 10 minutes with Zach trying to find the right strength until Jen came over and asked him if he could read. He said no. We eventually found a very old (70's, perhaps) pair of women's prescription glasses which made him very excited that he could see. Tomorrow we will be somewhere, but I forgot to ask where, sorry.
The Muy Debil Construction Team was unsure of whether they actually accomplished anything today when I asked them. The locals had almost finished the rest of the walls before breakfast so The MDCT helped finish the walls, put up the roof support, made a window, and made preparations for a door. Barry even taught a kid to play Candy Land. Tomorrow they will be at Gracias a Dios one final time to finish the door and other various things.
"All Quiet on the Western Front" were the words Steve could have used to describe the snoring of Bob last night. Steve hasn{t read the blog, but I'm sure he appreciated Jeanette's prayers and might need them the rest of the week. Is it the calm before the storm? Stay tuned to find out!
Also, the cooking from Aurora is excellent.
Contributed by Matt
Today the medical team was at the Mealer (sorry, last night's spelling was incorrect) community while the Muy Debil Construction Team was at Gracias a Dios once again. The medical team saw 180 people and gave out over 200 deworming pills as well as around 40 eyeglasses. It was very stuffy in the school in the morning, but luckily an afternoon rain helped cool things off. This community is in the midst of building a fairly good sized church, but have run out of funds and still need a considerable amount. A few team members visited Jorge, who has Muscular Dystrophy and is now in a wheelchair. His mother is a single mom of four kids who started building a house, but is not finished and is living with her brother next door. This family could really use prayers and our group is going to discuss possible options tomorrow night, I believe. Also please pray for the pastor's son, who is most likely sick, but we do not know with what. Zach, who was manning the eyeglasses station had a very interesting character. He was around 75 years old and wore a cowboy hat. After lunch he engaged me in conversation and left me a little bewildered as I tried (and thought I succeeded) in telling him I didn't know very much Spanish and had more trouble listening than speaking. Luckily Jen was walking by and managed to tell him what was up. Later at the eyeglass station, he spent about 10 minutes with Zach trying to find the right strength until Jen came over and asked him if he could read. He said no. We eventually found a very old (70's, perhaps) pair of women's prescription glasses which made him very excited that he could see. Tomorrow we will be somewhere, but I forgot to ask where, sorry.
The Muy Debil Construction Team was unsure of whether they actually accomplished anything today when I asked them. The locals had almost finished the rest of the walls before breakfast so The MDCT helped finish the walls, put up the roof support, made a window, and made preparations for a door. Barry even taught a kid to play Candy Land. Tomorrow they will be at Gracias a Dios one final time to finish the door and other various things.
"All Quiet on the Western Front" were the words Steve could have used to describe the snoring of Bob last night. Steve hasn{t read the blog, but I'm sure he appreciated Jeanette's prayers and might need them the rest of the week. Is it the calm before the storm? Stay tuned to find out!
Also, the cooking from Aurora is excellent.
Contributed by Matt
posted by DRE MAMA Project at
3/16/2010 10:40:00 PM
1 Comments:
Thanks for the updates. You are in our thoughts and prayers. Any pictures?
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