Mission Trip - DAY FOUR

It was pouring rain when the alarm went off - in fact, it poured most of the night and it was tough sleeping with those tin roofs above your head!  The good news was that the rain made the air much cooler - the bad news was the MUD!  We even wore our rubber boots to bible study that morning because the tiles and cement were already getting slick with water and mud..............to say nothing of the poor people already standing out in the rain, waiting for us!

Breakfast was delicious - burritos filled with eggs and peppers, cubed potatoes and peaches!

We're ready to start our day!!

Our "down" time was right after breakfast while the people were in the medical area!  You can see the baskets with the sacks put in them - wrapping those grocery sacks around each basket for the prescriptions took almost as much time as filling the prescription!

Jaime and Raquel had a great system going between them - Raquel didn't speak hardly any English so a translator was needed anytime there were questions.

This little boy was staring into the pharmacy door for a while so I grabbed my camera and caught him - I couldn't get him to smile until a translator coaxed it out of him and wouldn't you know, I blurred the smiling picture!

Our leader Eric, had warned us at bible study that morning not to eat the "white" pineapple which was his joke as he loves it so much!  We got to experience white pineapple at lunch and all I can say is WOW - once you've had white pineapple, you'll never want to eat yellow pineapple again.  Although white pineapple is never available in the stores!!

We had a little break in the afternoon before the next wave of people arrived and I told Jaime and Linda we needed to grab our boots and get outside for a few minutes.  Church was held at the top of the hill each evening but because we always worked so late, we were never able to go - so we climbed the hill during the break to check it out!

This little boy was standing in a tree listening I presume to the church service going on.

Church service in full swing - check out all the mud outside the tent - it had rained off and on again all day!

The road we were on continued up the hill and it looked gorgeous!

The cloudy weather didn't make for great pictures but you can see the lushness of the countryside!

It was a busy, busy day again with 1356 people through the medical clinic and 3810 prescriptions.  We all devoured our spaghetti dinner and headed to the showers late that evening.  And so ended DAY FOUR - To Be Cont'd.............