Mirna had Saturday School today (a way to finish High School while still working during the week) so today Elizabet worked with me at the clinic. Elizabet is one of the older Institute students who hopes to go to nursing school. She is a Garifuna, a separate ethnic group in Honduras who speak their own language and have a separate culture.

We had several walk-in clients (glucose checks, injections, blood pressure checks) but no admitted patients until about 1:00 pm when a small boy was admitted. He had been coming to the clinic for injections of antibiotics, but was not improving. He was admitted for fever and vomiting.

Here is a picture of Dani before Rosemary started the IV (before he started crying). After the IV he cried himself to sleep. He is receiving IV antibiotics, anti-parasite, and anti-emetic medications while here.

I left the clinic right at 3:00 pm (a little early) so that I could travel with Sarah, Zach and some students to a mission church at Agua Helada (literally translated as Cold Waters). I asked if there really was cold water there, and they said that yes, we did go through a mountain stream on the way.

Sarah is giving a Children’s Meeting this weekend at this church. In the pictures, note that not everyone is a child (there was a grandmother there who did all the motions of the songs and helped with memory verse), and that there ia a “second congregation” of men outside who are attracted by the songs and story but don’t thought there were too “macho” to attend a children’s service.

The children started a small memory verse craft, which they will complete tomorrow.

Larissa took a little break during the service to play outside. There were cows nearby and she kept on pointing to them and saying, “Gow. Moo”. She also blew some kisses to her daddy, but she wouldn’t perform on command so I couldn’t get a picture.

Night arrives early here, and it is completely dark by 7:00 pm. We ate at the Meltons tonight. After dinner, I worked read a bed-time story to Kendrick and Kaleb at their house, then did the same with Larissa at her house. After Larissa went to bed, I worked on the blog a bit before going back to my place. I was tired and looked forward to an extra hour or two of sleep in the morning (something that I did not get – read tomorrow’s blog!)