Today we once again travled to Amatitlan, but this time we drove to the city and stopped at Gonzalez Park! We woke up at 7 as usual and after breakfast Cesar had devotions, today talking about God's love for all. After studying's God's Word we took a 45 minute drive and arrived at Gonzalez Park where the group split into threes to go on house visits. Brian's group, led by Manuel, visted two houses, one of which contained a wife with two children. Her husband wasn't true to her, and frequentally took other women, and sadly waqs also a drunkard. Manuel, Brian, and Rachel shared passages from 1 Peter, Pslams, Matthew and Revelation, all explaining God's power over the devil and His undending Grace and love. Alannah and the rest of the group then prayed for her and her family, that God may bless them, dismiss their problems, and bring the father to the faith. Michael's team (Tito, Sandra, and Deaky Beaky), had two visits. First too a family with four childern, containing a set of twins. However, one of the twins did not get enoughb oxygen during birth so he was mentaly handycapped. We shared versus from God's book and Michael shared our story and said God let him live for a purpose just like he let us. The second visit was for an abuela with Parkinson's disease. She asked if she was going to get better, we had to tell her no that it wouldn't and we paryed for healing and for her family.
After the visits the team ate and then started setting up for VBS, adult, and voung persons teaching. The kids were wonderful, and certainly loved the team's singing and yelled at the top of their lungs. The skit was equally a hit and the kids took the message very seriously! God was truly smiling on the CUC team today!
Sadly, Michael and I didn't get to participate in the youth and children's messages today because we were helping in the clinic. I transalated for Michael, (something thats extremely nerve racking and stressful). The first few patients had either back pain, gastritous (acid reflux) problems, or bacteral infections. Some also had joint pain from arthritous, and a baby even had a fungal infection that caused iching. When the last two patients were left Michael and I thought it would be smooth sailing, but God had other plans. One girl who was four years old had a abscess of the targus (little piece of cartilage of the ear) which was under the skin and had to be drained. This was extremely stressful for Michael as he didnt have a scapel to drain it and hard to use a pocket knife and blood glucose finger pokers to sucessfuly drain it, all the while the nina was wraithing in pain :(, we gave her antibiotics to make sure she would be ok and a sucker :). Also, the last paitent was a one year old child who somehow got a tiny pebble embedded in his lip. At first pressure didnt work and neither did tweazers, however after a while we finally got the pebble unlodged and everything went great from there. Evertime I thought I was useless or un-needed, God would step in and Sandra or Michael would need me to translate something to one another, or hold the little girls leg while they were operating on the abscess. I know God was smiling on the CUC team today fro mthe stroeis I was told on how successful the VBS and youth probrgams were, as well as our experiences in the clinic. God truely used both of our talents today to His Favor and Glory, using use to heal His children to the best of our abilities, hodge-podge medical procedures and imperfect Spanish and all. Todos el gloria a dios.
-Brian and Michael-
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