This is the day that our bus got stuck in the mud trying to cross a bridge that was too narrow for it.
And this is the team starting our hour hike up the mountain to get to the village.
I blame this experience on myself... haha. On our "dia libre" I had a lot of time to reflect upon my time with patients and the Lord surely revealed a lot to me! It was the first time that I'd ever seen more than one patient in one day, and I realized that I didn't do a very good job of being the hands of Christ. One of the most common complaints among the women was "headache" and "full body pain" and when I asked the time frame, it was always 5 years or 15 years. So after a while I became frustrated with these women and was not only disbelieving them but had a completely hardened heart against their sufferings. So on Wednesday when I was thinking about these women, I was truly convicted of my wicked heart. I had traveled all the way to Honduras to tell people of Jesus and heal their diseases, and there I was not even caring about their pain! Wowzers, praise God that He continually redeems me of all my sinful ways, teaches and refines me! Before we left for the villages on Thursday, I read several accounts of Jesus' healing ministry in the New Testament and in each of them before the Word gives account of Jesus healing someone it says that He had compassion on them. I can heal people in medicine but unless I have compassion for them, I will not be walking in the path of Jesus Christ. And there is no other purpose in life but to be a disciple of Jesus. So I prayed earnestly that morning that the Lord would give me His compassion for His suffering people. And did He ever teach me compassion that day! Our bus got stuck and couldn't make it any farther, so we hiked an hour up the mountain. When we finally got to the village and I got to sit down I discovered that I had the worst headache and my entire body ached! I then understood why these women were suffering and my heart was changed towards them. So that's why I said that the bus getting stuck was my fault... it is very kind of the Lord to answer our prayers, praise Him.
Giving out crayons and Bible cartoon stories to the kids. It was awesome because we got to explain the Bible stories to the children. Dios es bueno.
Gig'em Ags!
It was good that we made it up to the top of the mountain that day, this village was infected with lice and scabies. Both miserable to have, but able to be treated with the medicine we brought. There was much need there.
The dental team does awesome work. These people only see dentists/docs when these mission brigades go to the villages so there is a lot of work to be done.
This day two pieces of Scripture shouted at me. Matthew 7:7-8 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." And Philippians 1:6 "being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." Thank you Lord. Amen.
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