When we arrived this morning at the clinic there were 75 patients already there. This was less than Guatemala last year, but we immediately got the feeling that it was business time. Since they had a service last night, we had to completely rearrange to optometry clinic since that is in the sanctuary with the triage. We were all prepared to do that though. Phil has done a wonderful job arranging things and making sure that we get set up quickly.
There are many cases in the optical clinic that are not your bread and butter examinations where you giv
e out readers or have the perfect prescription, etc. I had the idea to pop the lens out of 1 of the frames where they had 1 eye at -3.00 and the other at practically nothing. We only did this when the patient knew they could purchase a lens with a prescription of 0.00. This really helped out a few people who would otherwise have received nothing. Hopefully they can find the missing frames they need.
We had told 1 lady that we had nothing to give her, but we miraculously found a pair of distance glasses that were perfect for her and then also a pair of readers and she was so happy. That was really great. 1 kid we found out after some time that we had no glasses that could help him. We tried for some time, but we were definitely able to help his really irritated, red eyes that he had had for some time. Also, I was able to talk wit
h him about “Our Church” (Manantial de Vida where we work). I encouraged him to come to the church and get involved with the Youth Group. I felt I made a connection with him. He was 14.
God was good today as always and gave us all the strength to continue working and not faint (literally) for these 8 hours or whatever it was.
Good to hear from you, Lindsey. Glad to know that God is using you all in marvelous ways. I wanted to share a Bible verse that I found this morning with you and the rest of the group. It comes from Philippians 2: 1-11,
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1 If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature[a] God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature[b] of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross! 9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Keep up the great work!
Sorry Ryan, it was late last night when I wrote this. I should have addressed it to you, buddy. But glad to hear things are going well for you all in optical. You guys are the pros now, being it the second year!!!!
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