Thursday

Today Cory, Brandon, Tom, and I stayed here and continued our work trying to finish all we could. We all worked hard from early morning till dinner time. The girls and John went to Talanga for the medical brigade. There were 203 patients treated and prescriptions filled. Silva and Rosa from Ft Worth and Mark, Anna, and their children went with them. The girls were really glad to have them along since they are all bilingual. They were also able to give away the rest of the blanket packs to needy women. One patient was a 90 year old man, who told Penny that he felt better after he had drank his medicine. Of course Loyda had to translate for her, but what a blessing to see immediately the rewards of their labor. Dena, Kelly, Loyda, and Bella performed the puppet show for all of the children waiting with their parents. John got to preach another message to all the waiting patients and Pastor Jorge from "Sinai Church" in Talanga also preached and several people accepted Christ as their Savior. The medical brigade was in a small church in Talanga, and the name was "The Church of God in New Jerusalem". It was hard work from 9am till 4:30pm, but well worth the effort.