I went to the clinic today and got to spend some time talking with the nurse there today. She's this sweet older woman who has no doctor to work with and only has a couple people to help her. She has to deal with many of the same frustrations that nurses in poor rural areas in the US have to deal with, only on a larger and more desperate scale. There are the "frequent fliers" who come in for the same thing over and over, ie - the boy we brought in who had chigger bites from his feet to his lower back. The medications and creams can only help him so much when his living environment is so infested with the bugs. There's also the people who can't afford treatment for malaria but that she gives the medication to anyways. And thennn, there's the people who are given the malaria medication and then stop taking it a few days later because they're feeling better, only to have it come back worse.
She's a hardworking woman who really does a great job considering her circumstances and she's been very grateful to us for the work we've been able to do here. So would you pray for our sweet sister? Pray that she would not grow weary of the work she is doing, but that she would press on even when she's feeling overwhelmed. Pray also for a strong anointing of healing upon her, that the patients she encounters would experience miraculous healing of their bodies, minds, and souls.
I also got to spend more time working on assessing the kids today. Because of exams and a few other reasons, we were only able to check out a few kids, which isn't necessarily a good thing, but it does mean I got to spend more time playing with my babies :)
Working at the care point each day, I've gotten to spend a lot of time with Angela and Joseph, the two disciplers - villagers who have been hired by HopeChest to work with the children each day, making sure they are getting fed, singing with them, sharing the Gospel with them, and nowww caring for their medical needs :) They are certainly two of the people I've gotten closest with here and they are such a joy to me! They work so hard and they really do love these children. They looove to laugh at the Mzungus as we dance and as I do my Ugandan yell (not to toot my own horn, but I'm prettyyy sure I've gotten as good as the women here... That's right Judy, I might be better than you now :) And my favorite part about them is that after I tell a joke, and then take 5 minutes to re-tell the joke so they can understand it, and then I completely explain the joke to them, they laugh really hard :) So eyalama Yesu, that these children can have adults in their lives who really love Jesus and who are willing to work hard for the good of the children. Please also pray for Joseph and Angela, that they would not grow weary of doing good work and that through them, many would come to know Jesus as their Savior.
My last update for tonight - a Bruno story, of course :) When we were little, I always remember being in my pajamas and climbing into my parents big bed before heading upstairs to sleep. And my dad always loved to play our "kettle drums" - lifting up our shirts just enough to expose our little bellies so he could tap a beat on them. So today, after Bruno performed his daily magic trip of cramming a giant bowl of posho and beans into his tiny little body, I saw that bulging belly and couldn't help but play his kettle drum while that sweet little man laughed and laugheddd :)
Love and miss you guys!
Asio Cati
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