Mission Trip - DAY THREE

Did I even sleep the night before?  I guess so but the 5:45 alarm sure came early!!  We dressed in the dark in our tents and were out our door by 6:15 for morning worship service.  The kitchen came through with an awesome breakfast - eggs, pancakes and peaches!!

In our scrubs, ready for the day!!

One of the translators did a chalk drawing outside the medical room so I slipped out before we got busy to take a picture.

Rayna was asked to go out with the vet team for 1/2 day!  Carl and Steve took her under their wing along with Kari, the RN who went along!  They went with a Nicaraguan vet and a translator and gave shots to dogs, horses, cows and pigs!

Here is the outside of the school.

And it wasn't long before the first set of 250 people were out of church and standing in line for their small group evangalism.

This line extends up the hill towards the church - we could see this line outside of our window so always knew how much longer it would be before the next group came in!

These patient people sometimes waited for hours - most of them walked from their homes, sometimes leaving at 2:00am to arrive by morning.  And if they needed a tooth pulled, they would wait for hours at the dental room.

The family packs room didn't have a lot of time to get organized so were in need of extra help - I slipped in for an hour in the afternoon to sack up rice and beans.

Here are most of the many, many boxes that were shipped ahead - full of toys, stuffed animals and clothes.

Once in a while we got to sit down - but not often!!  Since we stood on a cement floor, my legs really hurt by the end of the evening.

By early evening we were all exhausted but the lines seemed to go on forever and ever...............Little did we know at that time that extra cards were given out and 1596 people actually went through the lines that day - no wonder we were tired!

As I said earlier, it rained 3 to 4 times a day and this day was no different - early evening there was a commotion and we later found out a huge tree had fallen across the road a little ways down and a small boy was pinned under it.  The Lord was working his magic that night as the huge branch he was pinned under had a bough in the branch and that's where he was found - he ended up with just a cut on his forehead! 

I was working family packs and had just taken a sack out to a family when a pre-teen climbed the few steps and just stood there frozen - I knew something was wrong when she wouldn't respond when I spoke to her - I yelled for someone to get behind her in case she fell and sure enough, after about 30 seconds she collapsed - she had an epileptic seizure but she was fine after resting.

Dinner was on the run that night and we had a side dish that was so good - it was cooked cabbage with bacon - I'm not that fond of cooked cabbage but this was excellent!!

On the way back to the pharmacy, I got this picture of a moth!

The electricity was on and off all day due to the rain and by 8:30 that evening, we filled the last prescription!!  Jaime and Raquel were STILL smiling though!!

The next morning we learned we had filled 4416 prescriptions on Monday - wow - no wonder my feet hurt!!  We were even too tired to take showers that night.  And so ended DAY THREE!  To be Cont'd..