Hello all our friends and family. All is going well here in BElize. We had another great day in our villages. But, boy is it HOT here...today was the hottest day so far. We have met many people in our villages and it is amazing to see how hospitable, friendly and happy they are to see us. The children especially!
Today, our construction team finished the outer concrete of the church floor and laid two levels of cinder blocks...that is such great progress for three days. They are hard workers and apparently Jay Couch has a new nickname...Sledgehammer!
Anne Schappe and Rebecca Mueller visited a health clinic today and seen over 34 patients in about 5 hours....everything from scabbies to burns to coughs and diabetes, but they both enjoyed putting their medical skills to work by asssiting at the clinic.
Our team members that worked in the schools also had a great day...we continued to do an arts and crafts project of making little boy and girl figures out of pipe cleaners and gluing on googly eyes, we also gave them crayons and sidewalk chalk...they were so excited to play with these. We also had them write letters to the school children back in St. Louis. The kids are very curious of our lives and families back in the US. We are teaching them and they are also teaching us.
Some of us had the opportunity to visit the homes of some of the village people...what an incredible expereince, you feel like you are in a history museum. We even tasted some local etnic foods. Very yummy.
Fr. Dick, a missionary priest here came by today and presented us each with a solidarity ring made out of kahune nut (a local nut tree). It is worn on your right ring finger to show compassion for the poor. It was a very special gift for us.
Well, that sums up our day...we are back to it tomorrow.
Fr. Don says to send a thank you to everyone who helped us make thsi trip possible. All the supplies we bring are so useful here...and he also said to be preapred for when we return, beacsue we will be back at it for next year! I think we have him hooked!!!
All for now. We hope you all are doing well.
Love, Jaime
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Hey Jaime it made me so happy to here your voice when I woke up this morning, but then I realized how much I miss you.
ReplyDeleteI need you to bring that hot weather back with you. We had snow flurries this evening and have a light dusting.
Keep up the good work and come home safe.
Love Doug
Jaime - hope you are feeling better and enjoying the weather, albeit hot. We are wishing for summer here - the temps dropped like a rock.
ReplyDeleteWe at SAL are holding up the fort..it's crazy as usual!
Hi Jaime and eveyone on the Belize team. Thank you so much for all that you are doing. Know that our support, prayers, and love are with you.
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Hi Aunt Jaime,
ReplyDeleteI went and got a book on the Rainforest because I knew you where in the rainforest. I want to know if you have seen a parrot snake. It looks green with kinda of black on the side and yellow eyes. Heard about the spider hope you took a picture for me. That is in my book too. Hope you have been taking pictures of animals for me. See you soon.
Love,
Justin
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