Wednesday was a big day in Santa Matilde and Candelaria...The full team went to Santa Matilde at 10...and visited the health department. We then played musical chairs with the kids and some baseball.Paul, Ben, and Lori continued to see villagers and distribute vitamins and other pills accordingly...One boy had s oy bean in his ear that had to be pulled out and a 9 year old girl had fallen off her bike this past Sunday and Dr. Rexroth told her to get it x-rayed...They told us it would cost 8 cortabas (40 cents) to get it x-rayed and read by a doctor in the next town. The worst case seen was a teenage boy that fell out of a tree into a burning pile of brush/trash and had what they diagnosed as 3rd degree burns around both ankles/shins...the accident happened Sunday and by Wednesday looked infected and possibly threating...Paul got him some bandgaes and ointments that he needs to apply correctly to avoid the infection from becoming worse or even death.
I got a soccer ball at the market and took it to the youth age boys there...they have one donated in January by Greensboro College, but Pastor Walter keeps hol dof it so no one steals it...they told me 2 Sundays ago, when I brought Candelaria over for a game that they needed a ball one of them could keep up with to practice...I gave it to 19 year old, Darwin, because Walter said he is the one that comes to church the most and will keep up with it and is a good team leader.I left with Tommy and Oscar to get to Candelaria around 1...they had their 12 pastors meeting from 3-5 with an earlier in-house meeting with Pastrana (father of Jose/Wismon/Herman/Nidia)
I met with Alfredo and Alex, 2 of the 3 boys, that did the 16 lights and 10 fans in late January...The storage shed attached to back of church is lightless so we ran a wire for adding 4 bulbs within it Thursday...we also swtiched the previous run switches because the front switch
was doing the back 12 lights and the back swtich the front 4 stage area...the coolest part for me was that a 15 year old, Ariel, was watching and holding tools and wasking questions willing to learn from Alex and Alfredo..i got them all soft drinks for the 90 mins we worked and told them we would meet tomorrow about 2 to complete it...We will have it all done with the storage shed running off the stage lights by 3 pm Thursday. The 2 weddings are at 5 pm in Candelaria.On the weddings, IHBC of Charlotte is here to help in Santa Matilde and when they left Charlotte it was set for Tommy to marry 8 couple on Thursday, by the time they arrived it dropped to 6, and now the cold feet of the men has spread to only 2 couples being married...One couple is Carmen, Sunday School teacher and Youth Leader at Santa Matilde..she is 27 with a 9 year old girl (the bike wrecker possible broken arm) and and a 4 year old girl, Julie, that I am in love with...She is marrying the man that is building the houses for the widows in Santa Matilde..he has already finished 3 in 10 days! I can't recall his name right now!
We had a great dinner at Lobito..they have everything from shrimp to steak to pork ribs and fish..It was 14 of us at dinner and we will have another big dinner tomorrow night because it is Linda's 55th birthday!
Love you all and I want to send a special HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my oldest sister, Ashley Dawn Norman Smith who turned 29 March 5th! Turns out my mom got the birthday present tho..Ashley and her husband, Jeff, flew out to Colorado for a friends wedding and Jacob, my 2 year old nephew, is with Mimi and Papa D (my parents) for 5 days!Diego
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