Let's get to work! Part 2 (Episode 3)

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Tuesday with our third clinic, located in the village called Panyebar. That day, it was a little colder than usual (although the reality is that I am always cold 😂); we arrived and got ready to start the clinic. Many people came, especially children with their families, because next to the church where we were located was one of the dining rooms for children that the Impacto ministry has called “ Happy Tummies.” 

We had many people with skin conditions and some children with parasites. At the beginning of the clinics, when the patient registers, they go to the vital signs area, where the dewormer is administered, and then they go to the doctor. We were already finishing the day when a lady asked if they could treat her. We had already finished, but one of the doctors came and asked how we could help her. While I was translating the doctor from Spanish to English, the lady told us about the rectal bleeding she had and started crying.

We often take our health conditions lightly, and only when we are in a more severe state do we decide to take action. That is why health promotion and disease prevention are essential in communities. Let's recognize when our body alerts us to something and not take it lightly.

Returning to the woman's story, the doctor advised her to go to a clinic where they could perform more tests. The reality is that we couldn't do much in this case since we had primary care. I again advised the lady not to take lightly what the doctor told her and to go and get care where she was more specialized; in the meantime, she was given essential medicines and prayed for. For every believer, God is the doctor par excellence, and even though sometimes we don't understand many things, we have to know that everything has a purpose in this life.

Our last clinic was at the Happy Tummies in San Juan la Laguna on Thursday. This day was where most people attended. There was a case of a child who had a bad ear infection. He had another condition, but I only knew a minor detail because I was in the pharmacy area. 

We also had a particular case where a lady came with a Mayan dialect that no translators could translate. Still, God had already taken care of meeting that need by bringing the teacher who brought the child with the particular condition. This teacher could translate the lady into Spanish and English since the teacher was trilingual. These things are only done by God; He puts everything in order as long as there is a willing heart. 

We ended up exhausted but full of God's blessing, and I was happy to have been helping these communities. That Thursday night, the mission's pastor showed us a video he made for us, and then we had a campfire where it was there that God had confirmed his purpose in me and that it was just beginning. Here is the verse that I kept in my heart while studying in Pennsylvania and that this day was the day I began to understand what God wanted to do in my life. 

And we know that in all things, God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 NVI


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