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So I guess its time for me to blog (for all of my faithful readers our there-yes Brady and mom, I’m talking to you!) ☺ I can’t believe its been so long since I’ve written! When we got back from the missions trip a week ago I recorded a “blog” for you all to watch instead of read but it wouldn’t upload…so I guess I just put off writing.
So I have a lot to share! To start, I’ll just say the missions trip was awesome! We met up with Brooke’s church last Saturday to drive down to Yavisa together. It was really awesome to be able to see some people from home again! Anyways, Brooke and I traveled the whole span of the country of the course of 2 days…so that was tiring. But we finally made it down to Yavisa. A little background on this city-its dangerous. We had this army of men with us 24/7. Seriously, all the time. Like they got only 4 hours of sleep in between rotations-and that was all because we were there!
So a little background on Brooke’s church-every year doctors and nurses go down to a different city in Panama to administer healthcare to the people who can’t get it. The services span from giving away pain killers to doing eye surgery to restore sight! There was one person there that hadn’t been able to see for 14 years due to cataracts and the doctors were able to restore her sight!
Anyways, Brooke and I were in charge of the VBS-working with all the kids there. Which we did…haha it was pretty crazy. There were close to 100 kids there so all of the planned crafts we had kind of went out the window. We pretty much just ended up passing out papers all day for the kids to color. But it was good nonetheless. As the days went on they found more of a need for translators. That’s where Brooke and I come in! We spent the last couple days translating and it was awesome! God totally blessed me with the words to say and I got to get more into the medical side-which I loved! As you can see from the pictures, we were able to scrub into some eye surgeries, which was BOMB!
After 4 days of being in Yavisa we went back down to P-city to party! We went to this awesome resort called Playa Bonita where we slept in, ate awesome food, and basked in the sun! I even got a little workout in at their gym!
So now have been back with our grandmas for the last week. We are back into a routine with school and we have 2 more weeks here till we got back down to the city. The missions trip left me with 3 major thoughts: I love translating, I love medical things, and I really miss home. The first day back in Boquete was hard because everyone from Denver went home and we remained. It was a lonely feeling. But to tell the truth, I am starting to feel almost a kinship to the people here. Like a part of me is really familiar with it now and I love it. I am going to seriously miss all the Spanish when I get home so I am going to have to fight to keep it going. But I am starting to feel ready to be home. But God is good and we have been so blessed with Hilda and Corina, so we are comfortable here.
Please pray God continues to work in our lives and keeps us focused on our Spanish for the remainder of the trip!
Dios te bendiga!