Bubbles, Exploding Milk & A Brindle Cow!!

Thursday began with breakfast and devotional, each morning the team has met at 6am to eat and study and share God's word. The team's theme verse is Romans 1:16, and each day we have reflected on how the gospel impacts various areas of our lives such as Joy, Forgiveness, Suffering to name but a few. This has been a great time of sharing and bonding. Each morning concludes with the sharing of prayer requests from and for the team. The team are grateful for and certainly feel the prayers that are being offered for them.

The day included the construction team discovered that the nice flat floor they had laid the previous day ready to be glued for the tiles, had Bubbled up! In many places in the room there had appeared bubbles, probably due to the humidity and the rain that has been falling each afternoon. It is a little early in the year for the amount of afternoon thunder storms that are taking place, but it certainly makes the temperature a lot cooler than it would be otherwise. After spending a couple of hours re nailing much of the floor, the team suddenly discovered that the floor seemingly on it's own had flattened and was ready to be glued. However Mike Yost's back flared up again and so we went and painted an outside wall instead.

6 surgeries took place today and and so a busy but productive day. Rich also got to meet up with another of the patients he operated on a previous trip. He was pleased to see that the results of the previous surgery had been very successful indeed.

This afternoon Donna went with our new friend Sonia to Sonia's knitting class and took over 200 wonderful photos! This is a great ministry to enable the local women to have a new skill to not only supply knitted items for themselves and their families, but also to make enough to sell.

On returning to the staff housing a number of the team were greeted by a very surprised Beverly who was laughing so hard. She was covered in milk that had turned bad and literally exploded when she opened it.

During the day Lori, Amber and Dave were transporting a patient to get to the public hospital in Le Ceiba as they have some equipment that Loma de Luz does not have. However the patient decided to return home instead of making the trip. All this to tell you that during this time, Lori randomly said Brindle Cow, or so the rest of the vehicle thought, it was not random as She had actually seen a cow that was Brindle.

Now anytime you see Lori, just say brindle cow and she will laugh out loud. The evening continued with the weekly fellowship, during which Pastor Richard shared a brief message based on Psalm 46:10 and then lead communion. This has become an annual opportunity and a great blessing to all involved.