August 21st, 2001 - My Last Sunday Church at Emmanuel for 2011

Terri came to relieve me at the clinic at 7am and I rushed home to shower & get ready for the last church service I’ll be attending this year at Emmanuel.  I head out early Wednesday morning, so will miss Wednesday evening’s service.

 

Today’s service was given by a pastor from Florida.  He talked about 3 things: figuring out your identity in Christ, forgiving others when they commit sins against you, and then reconciling – or going through the process of making everything right.  What a service!!!  I was on the edge of my seat listening to every word.

 

After church, Daysha and I went to the volunteer house.  We needed to change out of our clothes before heading to eat with Daniel, Kari and Kellin. When we got to the tienda out front, we discovered quite a few members of the new group there with the children they sponsor, giving them soda & cans of Pringles and taking pictures.  We had to wait a while for our food, but the conversations we had while waiting made the time fly by.  Daniel leaves on Tuesday for Tegucigalpa and I leave on Wednesday.  At that point, the male volunteer house will be empty and the female volunteer house will only have Daysha (for about 2 weeks when some Danes come in).  We had some great conversations with Elvia and Angelica (who were working in the tienda today) as well.

 

When I got back to the house, I folded the laundry that I had washed that morning from the clinic and stuck a load of my own clothing in the washer.  This should minimize what I’ll need to wash early Wednesday morning when I prepare to leave.  I uploaded 3 days worth of blogging and swept the entire house – minus everyone’s bedroom aside from mine. 

 

I did supper and baths with the girls again and around 5:30pm I brought the clean laundry back to the clinic and introduced myself to the 4 RNs that are from this most recent group that will be helping me out over the next few days.  I plan to spend this evening at the clinic and most likely Monday night, but will need Tuesday night to be back at the volunteer house so that I can wake up extremely early on Wednesday to prepare my stuff to leave.

 

Before heading back to the clinic to spend the night, Brandy came over and made some Chai Tea for Daysha and me.  It was DELICIOUS!!!  She let me know that little Sindi (with the seizures) is in the hospital in Tegucigalpa and not doing so well, so I’d like to ask for your prayers in her healing.

 

When I got to the clinic, there were 2 boys; Tony and then one named Jorge who had an allergic reaction on his skin to something he had touched.  Although Tony was a little wound up when I got here, both are now sleeping, so I will be going to bed soon as well.  Good night!