Monday, January 27, 2020

Happy to report today started just like yesterday.  Ok, probably not happy (chickens and dogs) but that is life in Honduras. The bigger problem was I looked at my watch and thought it was 5:30 so I got in the shower only to realize it was 4:30.  🥴 My watch did not change times (Honduras is on Central time zone) so I have been up and ready to go way before everyone else.  The first duty I had today was figuring out how to sync my watch to the correct time,  SUCCESS!!!!

We started our day with a saying: God gave you a fingerprint that no one else has so you can leave an imprint that no one else can.  This is a beautiful saying that we can use not only for missions but for our everyday life.

By 7:30am we had the trucks loaded and headed out to the community of El Sauce Las Vegas, Santa Barbara.  The trip took us around an hour to real 19 miles.  The roads were actually not that bad with, in my mind, the biggest obstacle were the pot holes in the road.  😳

We arrived at the school the a small crowd of community people waiting.  As soon as the back door to the truck was opened there were probably 10 individuals waiting to help carry supplies to the school rooms so our clinic could be set up.

Community people lined up under a canopy waiting for registration to begin,  once they were registered the next station was vitals (blood pressure and oxygen level) being run by Marlene and Nancy.  The next station was deworming (Vernon and Eliana),  every person was given either a pill or liquid form of the medicine.  They then proceeded to the vitamin station and finally the height/weight station where children up to age 16 were assessed for possible malnutrition.  After each station is completed families could go to the gift/donation station manned by Linda and Glenda.  At this time, if any needed to see the dentist they were escorted to another waiting area.  The dentist had a mobile dental unit so she was able to place fillings as well as extractions.  The final two stations were the medical doctors (Dave and Jim) and pharmacy (Carol B and Sylvia).  If an individual had a medical issue  we had the medications there for them. During the morning session I was able to clean 10 individuals teeth.

As we were waiting for the dentist and doctors to finish their day, the rest of us went outside and interacted with the children.  We had a fingernail polish station, coloring station, and balloon station.  All three stations were very popular and sadly we had to cut them off so we could get packed up to head back to the Mission House.

We cannot forget the very important construction crew which included Bill.  Two cement floors were laid in local homes.  The first house was laying a floor for a home that is just starting to be so strutted.  It is owned by a 20 year old woman.  The second house was putting a floor in her kitchen area.  I had the privilege of helping the afternoon crew lay the kitchen floor.  The criteria for laying a floor is the individuals must provide the gravel which is approximately 25-30 5-gallon  jackets full.  Healthy Ninos provides the  cement.  What we did was put 5 buckets of gravel and a half bag of cement mixed with one and a half buckets of water.  Mixed it then poured it onto the floor and smoothed it.  My job was dumping the gravel and water, helped mix the cement and watched the rest.

Bill had the honor of presenting new water filtration systems to families of the community.  The filtration system will now provide families clean, potable

Back to the Mission House for supper then bed anticipating tomorrow’s community.

Thank you for your prayers.



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