Our Last Trip Into Town

My throat was still raw this morning.  I'm not exhibiting any other symptoms other than a sore throat a cough, so at least that's good.  My plan is to stay away from the children as much as possible though, so I don't overwhelm LaShawn (the clinic nurse here) with children who have the same symptoms.

I did head to the medium boys house this morning, but kept my distance.  Noah was not feeling well (diarrhea), so he stayed back and I told him to meet us for breakfast.  I walked with the boys to the Comedor and saw Noah there.  He was unable to eat the arroz con leche (the hot rice with milk cereal that we have every day), so I didn't force it.  I needed him to be better for this afternoon's walk into town.  After breakfast, I walked the medium boys down to school and then headed to the high school where I chatted with Suly and Misel braided my hair.

Today is the "first of our lasts", so it is our last Wednesday at Emmanuel.  Tomorrow will be our last Thursday, etc.  So we need to enjoy each of these since we will not be back for 11 more months.

I spent the morning in my room drinking lots of fluids, hoping and praying that my sore throat would be gone soon.  At lunch, Chris and Nathaniel Miller join us at the medium boys table to eat.  He let me know that they had quite the array of medical supplies, and Noah could go back there to pick up throat lozenges and cough drops.  Noah came back to the room with the supplies and I quickly put a lozenge in my mouth before we headed into town.

Wednesdays are the days that are reserved for going into town shopping for groceries.  I had let Glenda know last week that we'd be in to pick up supplies for me to make the medium boys some guacamole, so I would be needing avocados, tomatoes, onions, cilantro, garlic, and lemons.  We stopped by her place first to see what she had, thinking that anything extra I might need to get, I would then buy from the grocery store.  She had enough of all of the supplies except for avocados.  She told me that she had bought 5 large avocados in Tegucigalpa last Friday, but then they began to look more delicious by the day and she ended up eating 3 of them!  I just had to laugh.  It wouldn't be a problem.  One of the grocery stores in Guaimaca would have the avocados.  I like Glenda...she remembers us every year and even remembers back 7 years ago to the last time Andres came along and asks about him (referring to Andres as the "big boy")!

Our walk into town with Noah posing for the camera

In town we found the avocados and then also picked up a bunch of Honduran treats to give to our nieces and nephew back home.  I can't wait to make up the goody bags (and hope that the treats don't get crumbled in transit.

When we got back to Emmanuel, we put the groceries away and made sure that there would be space in the refrigerator.  Although the couple in Hotel Room #2 left today, we heard that more would be coming and staying in Hotel Room #1 tomorrow...and if these people are who Suly believes they are, they will definitely need room in the refrigerator.  I will keep you posted when I find out.

We headed to supper and then went to church at 4pm.  The orphanage mechanic gave his testimony last night and it was very captivating.  His son had holes in his heart and a very good friend of mine, through God's help, direction and plan worked tirelessly to get this boy surgery in the United States.  The boy's story is amazing (4 years with heart problems), how God planned for this all to work out was simply nothing short of a miracle, and the boy is now very much okay!  Everything happens in His time.