Site Summaries for Wednesday from Brooke!

The last few days have been pretty busy here in Nicaragua. 

At the medical site Doctor Celia has seen over 80 patients in the last 2 days and we have continued to assist her by taking temperatures, checking blood sugar levels, blood pressures, and pulses. The majority of our patients are sickly children, older women, and pregnant teens. Prayer for these people would be greatly appreciated because most of the women have been abandoned and left to take care of their children on their own. We went to the poorest community today, which is built upon the landfill. Prayer for a mother and her 35 day old baby would be very appreciated; she lost his twin brother in the womb and now he is very sick and the mother is very distressed. 

At the micro finance site the girls have been helping women learn how to do projects. Megan has been doing a devotion to encourage the women dealing with depression. They have also been helping by cleaning the houses and doing house visits to pray with various women. Today they also made several piñatas for parties later in the week. 

At the AT site Kylie has been working hard to help the men build the water filters. While they could build many filters per day, they choose to draw out the process in order to build relationships with the people and better share Christ with them. Kylie helped deliver their first filter today, mixed cement, and helped to paint.

At the sports site the boys have been playing soccer with all the kids in the various communities. Today we blew up balloons and handed them out to the kids to play with. It sounds like such a simple thing, but it brought the kids hours of joy and laughter.

In the social work site the ladies threw a lovely, strong woman a beautiful baby shower to celebrate the miracle that her child is. The girls on our team aided the women in making jewelry and made 6 home visits today.

Jackie visited the education site which is not open to students yet. She helped the kids learn several english words, read them a story from the spanish bible, and just ran around and played with all the kids. She was a great help to the site leader today, who does not know any english. 

Nob, Miss Duek, and Dan have been helping at all the sites and constantly encouraging us. They have been taking tons of pictures, some of which will be uploaded tonight.

Love you and miss you all,

 Brooke

P.S. Kylie says “Hi mom!”

P.P.S. Mom and dad, comment below and I can read it later!