Escuapa First Work Day and Monsoon Monday!

Escuapa First Work Day & A Monsoon! Monday March 6th.     Today we went up the mountain for our first work day.  As usually busy, busy days in in medical and pharmacy.  Optical not so much - wondering if it has come to the point that we may need to alternate years between different areas.  Prescriptions just don't always need to be changed every year.  But, still we did see 45 people today, that is still 45 people who can now see better.    Today was kind of unusual in Escuapa in that we all of a sudden got a steady pour of rain that almost looked like a monsoon.  The best part about it was that Leslie had just got though telling a story about Noah's Ark, when it started to down pour!  Guess the kids needed a visual!   I got to hold an 18 day old little girl today as well as a 3 month old and a few others.  Love the time to snuggle these little cuties.  Being a little slower in optical did mean I could walk around a little more and check out the other groups, and I also got to meet lots of little kiddos.     I am hoping and praying I get to see my BECAS child tomorrow as it is our last day in Escuapa for Optical.  We move down to Danli to do two days of optical there.  Carlos is our BECAS child and he lives in Escuapa.  I met him once before on my first every mission trip, but that was before he was my BECAS child.  For those that don't know BECAS is a program that was created by two US missioners to help cover the cost of school uniforms etc so that kids could go to school.  So you spend $120 a year and a kid is able to get an education. Read up on it on their web site.  http://www.becasconbendiciones.com/about-the-program.html That's for now, internet is in and out and will probably post this in the morning.

  Blessings,   Shelley