Morning Clinic

So there is this bug called a Torsella (not sure if I spelled it right, but your pronounce it the way it's spelled), and it is kinda like a combination of a bee and a mosquito, its brown and yellow. It bites you, and when it does, it lays a worm beneath your skin, relatively deep under your skin. But you don't feel the bite, its like a 10 second interaction with the bug. Anyways, once the worm is in you, you swell up, and you get an infection. The only way, well the way we do it here, is to squeeze the worm out, like a pimple. The worm has to come up for air, to the surface of your skin, so that is the best time to squeeze it out. Meanwhile, while your squeezing and trying to get the worm out, green puss is coming out and blood and all kinds of infected body fluids, its quite gross. And it hurts, extremely bad, to get it out, and sometimes its not a one time process, sometimes it can take a few days. Its crazy.

A boy came into the clinic this morning, with a Torsella. I personally had to help squeeze the infection and worm out. The bite was on his cheek, about an inch from his mouth, and the whole side of his face is swollen. The place where the torsella was laying under his skin is rock hard, you can literally feel where the worm it. Bleh! He works on the farm out here, which is the most common place to get bit, because of all the trees and brush and grass. The bugs aren't too common, at least the bites aren't, but obviously it does happen. Anyways, this kid was a trooper, you could tell it hurt so bad, but he didn't cry, he just sat there and let us do what we needed to do. We got out a lot of the infection, blood and green puss were flowing out of his cheek, and part of the worm, but the rest of the worm still has to come out. I really wanna see what this worm looks like, but who knows if i will have the clinic shift when the worm finally pops out. For his sake, I hope it comes out soon, it sucks to have to go through all the pain of getting it out over the course of days. But like I said, he did great!!

Anyways, just wanted to share the intensity with you all, its been fun experiencing it firsthand lol. But needless to say, all us volunteers, and I can definitely say for myself, are nervous about getting bit by one of these bugs. Bug spray is essential, practically like lotion lol. So yea, thats a little bit of the "fun" going on here.

Love you guys :)

Oh Honduras

So my first week here has almost come to an end. It has already been such an amazing, wonderful, and chaotic adventure. lets see if I can somewhat document whats been going on... my friend missed her flight, so I traveled alone. my luggage arrived two days after I did. I met 10 other volunteers in one day. I woke up at 530am, multiple mornings, to bathe and feed toddlers. I walked around the Orphanage grounds approximately 4 times (no small feat). I have a horrible TOMS shoe tan. I had my hair done by a 3 year old (and it looked better than anything I've ever done). I was reunited with kids and staff I had known before. I met some amazing  beautiful kids. I administered medical attention to kids. I wore skirts and t-shirts all day. I stayed overnight and cared for an 8 month old suffering from pneumonia and malnutrition in the clinic. I got bit by foreign mosquitos. I sat and talked with some great girls. I visited town and bought a few groceries. I cooked. I cleaned rooms, bedsheets, clothes, bathrooms, etc. I have spent time admiring God. I have done so much, and all in such a short period of time, and I LOVE IT ALL. There is so much I am thankful for, that I have seen and learned, where God is the only source of the blessing of serving here. God is opening my eyes and my heart and my mind, and is wonderfully exceeding my expectations. 


Tonight, myself and the other volunteers and I had the opportunity to go up to Mami y Papi's House, to visit with David and Lydia, the founders, and parents of the Orphanage. It was great time of fellowship. While there were, while so many other conversations were taking place, I was constantly drawn to Mami (Lydia). Everything she said was full of God, and I mean each word resonated with His glory. She saw God in everything. I couldn't not listen to her or watch her talk. She is filled with the Holy Spirit. Everything that she talks about, every memory she has, every thought she thinks, all of it leads her back to God, to His scriptures, and she shares it (tells us) with us. From the call of a child to the opening of a door, she sees God in it. She is such a wonderful woman, a great blessing to myself, to the volunteers, and to all of her wonderful children; all 482 of them :) I was sitting at the table soaking in the Spirit that was seeping from within her, and my eyes were filling with tears, I want what she has. I want to grow in my relationship with God so that the Spirit is so blatantly seen by all I am in contact with. I want her joy. her peace. her trust. her love. I admire the work of the Holy Spirit in her life, I give God the glory..... I wish you all could meet her and see her and know her, even if only for a brief minute. I could see Christ so clearly in her, I am getting emotional even as I write this, it was so beautiful to see God displayed through her. 


I was so blessed this evening, I am so excited about growing in Christ, about seeing God work in my life more and more as the days and minutes and seconds go by. I cannot wait to reach my full potential in Christ. I am so enamored with Him, I want nothing else but Jesus. He is amazing, I am blessed to call him Abba. I am praying the He would teach me and show me how to be more like Him through my time here. 


I love you Jesus. 
I love you friends. praying for you.