Home Visits

3 beautifully painted girls!

Selvin one of the PT patients with CP and his family with

Marylee one of the other Volunteers

One of the Mom's in our group!!

One month down! It’s has crawled and flown by all at the same time! It is a great feeling to be a bit settled, and have a feel for what is expected of me, and how I fit in. This past week was a crazy week of getting a lot of things ready for the team of new long term volunteers that is coming in next weekend. We had the job of painting a whole house!!! As I was teaching some of the girls the art of “cutting in” all I could hear in the back of my mind was my Dad forcing us to do it well! And me arguing the fact that I wouldn’t need these skills in life! OK Dad…you were right and it was worth the life lessons! But, it was quite a tedious job that ended in not only a beautifully painted house but 3 beautifully painted girls from head to toe as well! We had some fun with it! My highlight of the week was being able to go do home visits to the sick with the Friars. They go every Sunday to the sick who can not leave there homes, and give them communion. The people are so beautiful that we went to visit. One woman who looked to be somewhere in her upper 80’s was very disoriented when we came to her room. As soon as Fr. Juan Diego started the mass parts she came to it and recited all the parts. After receiving communion she started singing this beautiful song (that went on for about 5 minutes ! ) but it was so beautiful!! She started to say how she suffers so much, but receiving Jesus gives her so much hope. It was a very intense experience for me; it made Jesus so real to be able to see the change and comfort in this woman. We are looking to form some kind of home healthcare system here. There is a need for this because what happens is that here at the mission we don’t hear about how sick the homebound are until they are critically ill, and then it is an emergency situation. A few weeks before I came there was a young girl of 14 who went into labor during a big storm. Because she lives with and takes care of her blind grandmother there was no one there to run and get us, or for someone to take her to the hospital. She delivered the baby on her own, and the next morning sent someone to our house to help her. When they got there she had a terrible fever, and the baby wasn’t doing well. They got them to the hospital, and she was treated for a terrible infection and the baby as well. Both are now doing well, but these are the situations home heath care and the prenatal program will hopefully be able to help prevent. There is no lack of need, I am just trying to figure out where I best fit, and what I can do here that can be then continued by the Hondurans long after I go. So pray for direction and the resources to keep moving forward! I miss you all!!!