What has the team been up to?

Monica has been locked in our pharmacy for a few days now, and is doing a fabulous job. Today she was crying because Dr. John had to drain an abcess on a baby's leg and the baby just cried and cried.









Usually if there is a picture of Jimmy, he is climbing on top of something, but he was holding this baby last night and today he was helping a little girl put barrettes in her hair.





It's hard to catch a picture of Mike because he's been on the go so much. He gets sent to local pharmacies for supplies, stores for chocolate and hardware stores for paint. When he's not looking a little stressed and helping us have all we need to get our jobs done, he can be seen talking to the locals and playing with children. Garry has been working hard with the crew upstairs and Karen is sad because we are out of teddy bears an dthe kids keep asking for them. Today she was singing songs with them. They had no idea what she was saying, but they were laughing at her anyway!

Dulce has been Patti's personal interpreter. She loves the little children and got to hold several small babies today. This one was only 5 days old. She also spent her lunch break brokersing our jewelry deals. Patti is keeping very busy with lots of kiddos, ans she enjoyed the babies today.








Melody and Dana have gotten so good at being pharmacy techs, you wouldn't know they hadn't gone to pharmacy school themselves.





When Steve is not working hard on the construction project, he's snapping pictures.










Sue is the best post-triage waiting room nazi ever. She keeps them in line, in order and moving along.

Mike got to play with putty today. I think they eventually got him a putty knife. Then I think they took it away.

Martha Ellen has been amazing. She has walpapered two whole walls of the church building with colored pictures from the kids and has been helping them trace their hands.

Vivian has been working hard at triage without a single complaint. Today after we had triaged everybody before lunch, she put on her practicioner hat and started seeing patients with the doctors so they could get finished up for lunch.

Mary has been doing the other half of triage. The doctors said they were doing such a good job, he could already tell what was wrong with most of the patients before they ever spoke to them based on what the triage nurses wrote.

Dana has taken so many blood pressures in pre-triage her ears feel bruised. She was also very taken today with this little woman. She is 100 years old and in great shape. She was just being seen for arthritis.

John and Dale were caught today catching a little rest after lunch. It's much cooler upstairs, so that's the best spot to take a break.

Tim has been locked in the farmacia for a few days, also. Today we let him out for lunch and he spent much of his lunch break playing with this little boy. They were scaring each other with rubber insects.

Betsy will have a medical degree by the time she gets home. She has been seeing minor medical problems with occasional physician consultation and has been dressing lots of wounds. Today she caught a little boy with Hepititis, which Patti confirmed.

Virginia has been doing such a good job helping pass out the goodie bags and toys to children. Today she had them all laughing catching the bubbles she blew.

Eugene has been working hard with the construction crew. He seems to be incredibly resourceful.

The end of another day....time to head back to the hotel for showers.


Terry wasn't in many pictures today because he was off buying paint and supplies. But, he is working very hard, and was "so thrilled" to be painting today.

There were three more baptisms at church last night! Praise God! There have been so many local brothers and sisters studying with the people here. They are so passionate about teaching the gospel, it's no wonder they are adding new Christians!