Greetings one and all! How wonderful to join you again for an
exciting update and a new bonus “Misadventure” story.
We have been busy
bees! Our MAG medical/dental brigade was
engaged in a three day (and some of that next morning after) extravaganza. The stats are below.
They couldn’t get a
heartbeat. After Wes flew her to Puerto
Lempira for treatment we received good news – the baby was okay and the hip was
just dislocated. She is walking around
on crutches. What a blessing to have had
this awesome team here.
Medical/Dental/Eye
Brigade
Sept. 29 – Oct. 2,
2014
Medical
177 Adults
138 Pediatric
315 Total
Dental
115 Patients
238 Extractions
67 Floride
Treatments
Pharmacy
1269 dispensed
Eye
73 reading glasses dispensed
503 Total Patient Encounters
Other October
news – Wes and Carlos flew to Mocorron and Puerto Lempira for a meeting with
the Alcade of Gracias A Dios. Getting a
full time teacher for the school and bridge repair were the topics of
conversation. They left hopeful that
their information and pictures will bring about some help in the bridge repair
project.
The alcalde is also coming out on
Sunday to assess the teacher situation here.
We will fix them a tasty lunch after they visit with the villagers.
Medico, another medical organization, will be visiting toward
the end of the month. They are looking
us over in anticipation of sending a possible brigade themselves sometime next
year. They want to see the facilities
and get to know us a bit. We are hopeful
that they will like what they see. If
they come on board, it’s possible that we could have medical/dental brigades 3
times a year (staggered out) so the folks will have care in a more consistent
basis. 
We are excited by what He is doing. Please continue praying for the work
here. The Braxton’s will Possibly be joining us
in service sometime next year.
we have another couple, the Mora’s, that will
be visiting in January to see if this is where God is calling them to serve as
well. We can’t wait to see what will
happen as we grow.
Bonus- MisAdventure
“What in the world?” I think as I am jerked awake from a sound
sleep. The monkey is pitching a fit and
I can hear the dog barking with almost a full howling, and the cat meowing very
loudly. I grab up the flashlight, flip
on the porch light (soft yellow lighting) and head out to the porch to see what
was going on. I can’t get the flashlight
to penetrate the screen to see so I step outside. It’s very dark, no moon or stars because of
cloud cover. The cat’s meows are even
louder so I step towards her thinking she is injured. As I get closer a stray thought enters my
head since I am barefoot about fire ants being out or the big black ants that
bite hard and hang on. But….I was
already out by the tree. Ebony (dog) and
Pixie (cat) are still caterwauling. I
notice they are both focused up on the tree.
I shine my light slowly up the trunk to the branches. Poor thing, a young cat was clinging for dear
life. I firmly tell my animals to be
quiet, several times. They don’t shut
up. I head back to the porch to get a
broom to “herd” Ebony to the porch, where hopefully, she will calm down. The flashlight goes out. Battery was dead. I walk gingerly in my bare feet to the
porch. I put the flashlight down and get
the broom and head out of the yard to the other side where Ebony is still
barking and semi-howling. It took quite
a few tries, but I managed to herd her into the yard and onto the porch. Again, speaking firmly I tell her, “Lay down
and be quiet.” She looks at me. I don’t know if she will obey. I shut off the porch light and close the
door. I listen intently to see if she
will behave. Things quiet down. I notice the time. It’s 2:15 a.m. I head back to bed, hopefully to drift back
into dreamland. I listen a little more,
but it’s still quiet so I go slip onto the cloud of dreams and float away. But wait!
That’s not all. A while later, I
hear Ebony howling (this time the full roar howl) and she begins to whine and
cry. No kidding. This causes the monkey to get into the act
(again). I get up with a groan. I flip on the porch light and speak firmly to
her but she is not listening. I glance
down. Eureka!!! I see the food storage for the animals. I decide to give her a little food. Surely appealing to her tummy will help quiet
her down. I give her a cup of dog
food. She is happily crunching when I
shut the door and turn out the porch light once again. It’s 3:10 a.m. as I stumble back to bed,
listening to see if a happy tummy will make for a quiet Ebony. It seems to have done the trick and even Jack
creeps back to his little house to rest.
It took a little longer for me to slip away to dreamland but I managed
to find the cloud and drift away, hoping that this was the end of this nighttime
adventure. J
Joyfully
In His Service,
Westley
and Denise Wiles
