They call me gringo.

Hello Friends.

How are each of you? I´d really really love to hear what´s happening in your life. Internet is amazing for keeping in touch. Try it out.

Again, I don´t have much time, but I´ll try to tell you as much as I can...
I wanted to write a bit more about the slum area that I wrote about earlier. Recently, like in the past 6 months, I´ve been thinking a lot about what it means to ´surrender all to God´. In the bible, God asks everything of the disciples. They´re fishing, Jesus comes up to them, they leave their nets behind & follow Him... Would I do that? If God says He will never leave us nor forsake us, then why do I put things of the world ahead of my relationship with Him? The people we visited literally have nothing. They treasure every scrap piece of metal they can find otherwise there will be a hole in their house. God doesn´t desire for people to live in these situations & His heart breaks. But in the midst of it all, He is sufficient. And He is sufficient for us --nothing else is constant & unchanging.

Ok, I´m going to try to write about a week of info. I´ll even bullet point it for you ...
-I was quite sick for a day. I think it was because I had this frozen water in a bag. Don´t buy food from a random on the street. But I´m feeling much better now, praise the Lord.
-I was able to clean a total of 4 wounds the other day. 3 of them were on a little girl. Here mom thought they were from bug bites & the girl had been scratching them with dirty fingers - I thought one looked like a boil. We gave the mom antibiotic cream, so hopefully they´ll stay clean and be able to heal.
-Yesterday we went for a hike up a mountain. Seriously, a mountain. I almost died. Or I thought I was going to. We visited the family of a man who has been connected with AIM for about 6 years now. It´s crazy to think that people live in these places. The mom who had had 18 children was able to make it up there faster than me. I was just taking time to admire the scenery.
-I´m having pizza for supper. I´ll see if they can put some Canadian back bacon on there.

Much love.
xx