Well, we are exhausted! A day at San Jose is always the BEST day. We had a breakfast of "cinnamon oatmeal bread cereal" and fresh pineapple. Morgan and I went with the teams all day today, helping with VBS and the medical team. We arrived at San Jose and immediately went to work setting up the mini hospital in the church. The VBS was held behind the church in the open air building with over 70 kids to begin with, eventually growing to 100. I was hoping to help somewhere in the mini hospital, but it seemed that they had everything under control. Right now we are working with 2 doctors, one "nurse" and two people doing triage. Morgan helped in the pharmacy, distributing medicine to the patients after they saw the doctors. I went up to help with VBS, sitting in the crowd with the kids. I am telling yall, Cornelia goes all out! They had a Bible story, songs, skits, 2 crafts, and a whole suitcase full of tricks! It was cool because I was able to speak Spanish with a lot of the kids, and help the team from Cornelia talk back and forth with all of the children. Almost like a translator, except not, ha. I really enjoyed helping with the crafts, asking everyone, "Necisitas ayudar/Do you need help?" haha. We also fed all of the children. I helped a little 3 year old boy, Osman, with his craft, and his little sister, who he was taking care of, and after that we was literally attached at my hip. After lunch, I played baseball with some of the kids I met last year, Elisandro and Norbin. I still have not found the little boy I was so close to last year, Albarro. I looked for him all day though! Cornelia also brought out a parachute, and I have some of the best pictures of Osman that I will have to put on the blog soon. We played a little futbol/soccer for a while as well. But honestly, the whole rest of the afternoon I entertained Osman. I realized while I was playing soccer, with Osman watching, that I had to take advantage of being with Osman. So I pretty much just carried him around, and played whatever he wanted to play. Ha, at one point I did a somersault, and before I knew it, I had a gymnastics class going on. I looked around and I literally had over 30 boys wanting to learn how to do back handsprings. So funny!
Yall be praying for me, because I really feel like the Father is going to reveal something to me this week with the medical mission team here. I still haven't been able to work with the medical team, and I don't exactly know how I am supposed to take that. I mean, I had such a great time today with the children, and I wonder if I will be able to do that if I am ever a doctor. You know, just play with the kids. So yall be praying that something "divine" will really happen this week!
How cool that the medical team saw over 120 patients yesterday, and over 150 today. So incredible. Well I love you all. Off to have an ice cream party with the team!
te amo,
Spence
p.s. We are struggling with the MagicJack. It still isn't working :/