Honduran Missions - It's A God Thing: 2nd Day of Clinics

We have had another great day of clinics at El Cacao. We saw more people today than yesterday. I guess the word got out that we were coming back today which is exciting. We saw a total of 67 patients all total in our eye clinic. We gave out quite a number of readers and 18 prescription glasses. We got so many loving hugs today from people after they received their glasses. Jeff and Kristi said that around 4 or 5 got saved today in evangelism station. Most of the people who came through were local pastors in this area and the people from their churches.

The young girl who came yesterday with her younger siblings she is caring for came back today. Bucket took her to have her eyes checked and gave her some sunglasses. She stayed and helped pack some things up. We gave her some snacks to take back with her. I will check with Leonard to find out how she is doing at a later time. Bucket got really excited when he had to drive some place to pick up some supplies. He saw some people walking down the road with the sunglasses we gave them yesterday and one man was wearing the prescription glasses that we gave him. I know what we are doing is very minimal in importance in comparison to everything else in their lives - little or no food, no clean water, and entire families living in very small houses - if they have any place at all to live. Poverty here is so different from back home. At least back in the U.S., government assistance is available. These people here have absolutely nothing. Many do not work because there aren't very many, if any, jobs available especially in very remote locations. Growing their own food, if they can, is their only resource. It is so sad to see where some of them live. One small house that is the size of one of our bedrooms will house an entire family. It is made of mud, or wood or sometimes cinder blocks if they are lucky. Transportation for most of them is walking or riding a bike. Most don't have money to see a doctor much less go to a hospital. So many of them die of hunger every day especially in the more remote areas and in the mountains. If we see a child with light to blonde hair, they are severely malnourished and protein deficient. We are so blessed with what we have and so many times we don't remember to thank God for all of our abundance. Sometimes the smallest and cheapest thing we have is rich in comparison to what these people have. Thank you God for where I live, my job and all you have blessed me with. I don't deserve it any more than these people deserve to be so unbelievably poor. I know you have a perfect plan in all of this. I need to be a willing servant in everything. Es una cosa de Dios!