Not much exciting to mention but I figured I should post to make sure everyone knows I'm still alive. Plus if I get out of the habit of posting, I'll just never remember to post again.
This week has been great and I've really fit into the routine of the clinic and believe it or not, am sorta helping to orient the new staff. I've only been there a week, but since I understand the routine and stuff, I help some of the new volunteers get used to everything. I'm growing in independence at the clinic and am excited for what is yet to come! A group went back to the brothel today, but I stayed back to hold down the fort at the clinic, plus I wanted other people to have the opportunity to go. Tomorrow we are doing an outreach clinic in one of the further communities on the island of Roatan. That should be exciting! And then after work in the evening we are also doing a health fair at a local after-school program to provide mainly health education and HIV testing to the youth of Sandy Bay. So lots of exciting things yet to come this week!
As a side note, I'm loving being here because I can feel God's presence so well. Its nice to have a chance to rest in Him and refocus my life. At home, each day is so busy and there is never enough hours to get everything done, and I think a lot of what God tries to tell us gets lost in the rush. However here I have time to just enjoy what God is doing and it seems so much more evident. A lot of the Hondurans who live in poverty rely on God for everything and it just provides such unique examples of His power and glory! Like take Carlos (our gardener) for example, he is 18 and is the only person in his family who is working, so he supports the whole family (and still goes to school in the evenings! thats dedication to education I must add!) However, without his dad working too, there just isn't enough money to feed the family and pay rent. The money Carlos makes is just enough to cover the cost of food for the family and they haven't been able to pay their $75 rent for the past 3 months. Debi and I were talking about their situation this Saturday evening over supper and talking about how the landlord was going to evict them by Monday, but that Carlos firmly believed God would provide. We felt like we should stop and pray for the family, so we did. And I'm not even kidding, seriously 5 mins later, Carlos came to the house. He had forgotten something at the house earlier that day and needed it before work on Monday so he came back for it. Debi and I were so flabbergasted to see him after we had just prayed for them.. and Debi asked about the housing situation. Carlos told us that the landlady had just told them that she would give them one more month to get things together and pay! How CRAZY is that?! God provided housing for them! When the situation looked really bleak, He provided just as He promises! And I was even just so blown away with how confidently Carlos trusted Him! Anyway, thats my encouraging story for the day! Hope it makes your day like it certainly made mine! Remember we can trust Him always, no matter the situation because God wants to provide for us, just like He did for Carlos and his family!
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