Last of the Honduras pics!

The view from my hotel room, there is the Heli-pad!

Tegucigalpa neighborhood by T-Pastor Carlos

View from Christina's front porch

Saying goodbye to Delores

Dennis and Jullissa!

Taylor and I

The only guys on the trip, they cleaned up ok for chuch! :)

The whole GCU group

Just the girls of the house!

Students playing in he rain!

Chris and I staying out of the rain.

Demi and I she is soaked!

Meagan and I, she will be an awesome Doctor!

One of my roommates, Lindsay is great!

Girls having way too much fun in the rain!

On the bus heading to Delores

The back of the bus is always goofy!

The last few days...

The rest of the story…..

Thursday was a rest day. The team went to the mercado and got to see all of the sites and smells that accompanied. I stayed at the children's home with time to meditate and peace and quiet. With such a large team they are loud but I love them all the same. One of my roommates was convinced that I would hate them by the time I left but it was the opposite I got to know them and loved them for who they were, no matter how loud they got. Any ways so my morning of peace and quiet because discussion time with Stan which was awesome. He is an amazing pastor and is an excellent encourager. He pushes me to be a better Christian and to be a better encourager. So after the noisy college student came back, we all rested. Then around 4 we went to Marvin and Christina's house, which praise God they have finally moved in!!! They had the foundation created when I went to Honduras 6 years ago and they have just moved in in November! We had a nice cookout with a large bonfire. The GCU students were able to tour the ministry property and get to hear the vision that they have for the ministry property! I can not wait till we have enough funds to build on the property!

Friday we headed into Delores. The team will be staying there for 10 days. There they will helping out in the school or evangelizing in the surrounding area. I really wish I could have stayed with them!!!! Delores was REALLY HOT! So I was glad I was leaving but I really wanted to stay with the team. The girls were staying in one house with the boys in another. It is a bit cramped with having so many girls in one house but I am sure they are getting along! :) It rained while I was there and it felt nice except of course I didn't dry but the rest of the girls played in the rain and then changed into their church clothes.

After Dennis finally showed up we left as the team went to church. I really did not want to leave. But life must go on! That night we had a quiet dinner with Christina and I stayed at her house. She really had ministry in mind when she had her house built. They can easily have 7 people stay with them. It was nice and quiet.

Saturday  Dennis, T-Carlos and I went to Tegucigalpa. After dropping Carlos off Dennis and I went to the hotel. Later I found out that this hotel was right next to the Presidential Palace. I thought the helipad that I could see from my room was for a hospital, NOPE! It was the presidential helipad! It is definitely crazy! It would be nice to actually see the white house as I have now seen Honduras' and England's palaces!

This trip in general was a blessing and let me heal after several bad weeks of work. But know I just don't know where God wants me to go, we had mentioned I could stay in Honduras full time but I do have loans. Once all of my loans are I can go anywhere and we will see where God wants me to go!

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Rest of the medical brigade pictures

Dr. Leta our dentist with our travel dental chair!!!!

My medical crew day 2. They did great!

This is what our pharmacy looks like, just your average walgreens!

Two GCU students with Kerin-one of the girls who lives at the children's home full time.

Dental crew having too much fun!!!

I wish I could join the dental crew!!!!

THe medical student with a GCU student seeing patients.

Teaching a GCU student how to obtain a blood pressure.

Ahh the difficulty of a manual blood pressure.

Go Dental Go!!!

Everyone is too short and short chairs too!!!

Tomas giving instructions on medications!

Tying out another translator. Ismaris is Awesome!

Pharmacy had a little too much time to goof off.

Wanted to keep the chair clean so plastic bag where the feel go.

Eating lunch at Pastor Carlos and Rosa's house

Beautiful sunset on our walk to Rosa's house

the view at Rosa's house!

Medical brigade day 3

Medical brigade day 3

Well the day three went well. We had the last clinic at San Antonio a community where hands giving hope sponsors a church with pastor Carlos and his wife Rosa, his is the third time for me to visit this community. When we arrived there was already two different lines one for medical and one for dental. Medical was very interesting some of the same, mal nutrition and too much time in the sun. I was able to let one of the GCU student ask some questions and write the prescriptions, which she loved, and I was able to work with Tegucigalpa- Pastor Carlos. T-Pastor Carlos is a great translator and he catches on to stuff and reminds me to ask stuff that I forget. And he is passionate about the teaching as I am. So when I educate on nosebleeds, headaches, or muscle stain Carlos has me completely explain it to him and them he explains it well to the patient and there family. It may make us see less patients but it still works well. One interesting case was a teenager who came in with complaint of nosebleeds and head aches  3 times a week. I went into the education of how to prevent nosebleeds and the various formulas for his headaches. Then at the end his mother mentioned that all of this started after he was in a car accident several years ago. I asked my typical did he lose consciousness? And her reply was yes, for 2 days. I went "oh". She then showed me where he had a gash on his head, it was a large scar. The mother was unsure if he had a head bleed because she was also unconsciousness after the accident. So after talking with them for 10-15 minutes and I consulted with Dr. Gladys and she agreed with me that the boy needed to see a neurologist. So she filled out a consult so they could go to the hospital and see a neurologist. I kept trying to ask questions like if the boy was forgetting items at school or if school but he seemed like he didn't want to be there and kept looking off to the distance, which I saw as odd, but he might have been embarrassed that his mother forced him to come here. :) Other than that I saw two of Pastor Carlos's( of San Antonio) sons. Milagro who is 19 now T-Carlos and I both teased. I had felt bad earlier because when we arrived Milagro was coming to say I to me and I had no idea who he was. It took me about 4 hours and then light bulb, I realized who he was. I realized he was the pastor's son, and we worked together the last two trips. He led worship we had baptism in January last year. And he was at the children's home when I went in 2009. I felt really bad but made up for it when

Carlos and I teased him for seeing the doctor, he did wait until everybody else had been seen which is refreshing.  I love to see servant's heart when someone goes last even if it means they may not receive what everyone else gets. We did run out of vitamins both children and adult by mid day. We didn't have too many go with out them but we did have a few. Other than that we did have medication for everybody.
And next time I will try to bring more vitamins.

After the clinics we went to go see Pastor Carlos and Rosa's church. They have been trying to build for the last several years. Every year they had built the walls using adobe but were unable to get a roof up before the raining season started so the rains dissolved the walls. They now have a roof on it! They wish to build a feeding center next to the church but they mush await funding from the US. After praying for the church we went back to Carlos's house and Milagro sang and played his guitar and his little brother also joined and played guitar with him. Milagro is amazing on the guitar and teaches himself and now it looks like is teaching his little brother. Their whole family serves the Lord with everything they do! Well it was a long day and it finished by us heading back to the La Esperanza and there was a Semi truck in our way. Now many of the girls had asked what happens on the one lane roads if there are 2 cars, My response is the biggest truck wins. Well there was this Semi and we were debating which was bigger our bus or the Semi. Then the bus starts driving in the ditch sideways to go around the Semi, I was so glad we were not on the side of the mountain where one of us would have to back up to find a passing place.

Medical brigade day 2

Day 2.

Tuesday was an amazing day! We did not have has many patients as Monday but it flowed well and the team worked well. Some of the team that wasn't helping with the brigade were able to help with the feeding kitchen and they were even able to give the bible story to the children and lead the prayer all in Spanish!! I started catching on again with what to ask the patients. I had a different translator who used different words with the medical lingo do then I was getting loss or maybe it wasn't all getting translated. All in all it was a good day! I saw about 40 people. And we had a case with a child who has febrile seizures. It started when he was an infant and it comes every time he gets sick. The mother complained about his fever always staying high when he is sick, I talked to her about fever management and that if the boy continues with the seizures he needs to go to a neurologist. They may not take him the mother believes he continues to get the seizures because the clinic gives him penicillin. I felt like I was educating all day! I try to talk to the patients on what they need to do when they run out of the medications I am giving them or how to conserve the ones I am giving them. 

I Also saw a lot of patients complaining of white spots. This is not Vitiligo- where skin loses pigment, but it is where they have white spots on their skin randomly and it is related malnutrition. So we give them vitamins and today is the day we ran out of prenatal vitamins. We did not have much to start of with but it is horrible we we have someone who is pregnant and also has the while spots on their skin.

Tuesday we started praying for healing of those who are sick. I have been having a cough all week with hard wheezing when I laugh or cough, after much prayer that night the wheezing went away, praise God! The students also had a high and low talk which was awesome to hear! Just their perspectives on the day, the people and the culture! I am so blessed to be working with them!

More pictures from Delores

                   Seeing a patient with Carlos as translator, not the best picture but its candid!

                                   Honduran medical student with GCU student, Tomas. :)

       Pastor Marvin speaking to people waiting to be seen, making sure thier spiritual needs are met along with thier physical needs.

                                              Delores School

                                          GCU student, Ivy, with delores school children

Its tuesday night and its been a busy week already!

So it doesn't look like i will get a post about today up and still fellowship with the team. So I am going to ask for prayer requests for tomorrow and write about today later.

Our team is going great they have so much energy!
Prayer requests is hard some times but here are some of what God has started to point out to me!
1) this team is flexible but may they be more flexible!
2) I continue to have compassion throughout our last day of the brigade, and that the medicine will last! We don't have much left but hoppefully will last throughout the day!
3) That I will be able to mentor these students and that they may be able to grow in the Lord.
4) Everyone's health, I have been preaching drink more water to everybody i meet!
5) That we will be able to find more support for the ministries in honduras.
6)The Lord will give me wisdom about changes in my life and and guidance for that.
7) travel to the brigade, some of the mountain travel is scaring some of the girls with the bus. :)

Thanks more sooon!