This past week has been extremely busy. On saturday night i returned from another trip to masisea where i preached my second sermon. Our team had to finish packing medicines and supplies for the campaign. We got to the campaign sight which was just outside of Pulcallpa around 8 in the morning. The building they gave us for clinic had just been built. It had two rooms, one for pharmacy and one for patient consults. It also had a dirt floor. Not only was the building our clinic it was our sleeping quarters and surgery center. After unpacking the medicines Laura, Dr. Fillman, Emmanuel, and I started seeing our first dental patients. It was a little nerve wracking at first to be pulling people's teeth out but I quickly got used to it. Throughout the week we saw a wide variety of patients. We had every where from a 3 year old up to people in their late 80's. A couple of the people had the last of their teeth pulled while some of them only had one or two. Kids were especially difficult because a lot of times they were scared of the needles. I had one kid actually try and jump out of the dental chair while i was giving him the injection. I learned so much about dental this past week. Also, i got to assist with three surgeries that Dr. Matthews performed. All three of them were tumor removals but it was fun to watch. The schedule for the week was pretty crazy. I usually woke up at around 3:30 am to the sound of people lining outside the building to get their tickets for the morning session. I would finally get out of bed around 6 am, take a shower, and start converting our sleeping quarters back into a clinic. We would set up, go eat breakfast at the mayors house, and then start clinic around 8:30 am. Usually dental would stop about noon and we would go and help with clinic until lunch. Then the whole process started over again for the afternoon session. The dental clinic was held in the large, orange evangelistic series tent. Because we were in a tent it got extremely hot. It was around 100 degrees inside and we had gloves, scrubs, and masks on. Needless to say we sweated A LOT! I really enjoyed working with the different patients. A lot of times we would take teeth out that had been causing the patients quite a bit of pain. It was especially hard to see the kids in pain but it helped to know that they only felt it for a few seconds until the lidocaine started working. This coming week we are going on another campaign to a chipevo village. It is going to take 16 hours to get there by boat. Please pray that our team will have the energy to get through this next week and that we will be able to reach the people we meet for Jesus. Thanks for all your prayers. I know they are working!
Ps. the pics are as follows.
1. the dental team: laura, dr. fillman, emmanuel, and I
2. Our medical team after a long week
3. carrying logs in the rainforest
4. what the logs did to my back
5. working on a patient in the orange tent
4 comments:
so brent, i'm glad that things are going well over there, even though you're sweating all over the place. things are going well over here in michigan and au. so anyway i was going to tell you that me and katie are dating. funny how things work huh. :) anyway still praying for you, have a great year. ttyl.
hey man! finally got to look at your blog and was excited to read all you wrote. that is so cool that you are getting all that experience and what not. looks like you are going to have a really good year. things are going well up at SAU, doing the whole RA things in the dorm this year so i am really busy but i think i am really going to enjoy it. so i am looking at the picture of the groupd and i am like 'brent the ladies man down in peru'; way to be brother...lol. your mom was saying something about some guys coming a little later or something like that, i could be wrong. speaking of the picture i recognize like three girls in your pictures. two of them i do not really know, but i know tara a little bit, tell her i said hello! anyway man, glad to see you are doing well and i will for sure be praying for you. keep it real in Jesus! later bro
Brent!!!! I am so excited for you! The experiences you are having sound incredible. It's a good thing God's got your 6 though, cause it also sounds like without Him making the difference some of the experiences could be....well...yes. I can just imagine the grin on God's face as He plans just how He is going to use you each day you are down there. You are such a blessing to so many Brent, no matter what America or whatever other continent you are on.
I was looking at the pics, and I am pretty sure my RA from freshman year is one of the "leaders down there: Jenni Goodwin????? I doubt she'd remember me, but would you send a hello anyway? ¡Y casi olvidé! ¿Cómo marcha tu conocimeinto de la lengua española? Jejeje. Biggest (unexpected) news in my life? I am going to teach a spanish class at IJA, the elementary school associated with Glendale. I start Monday. YIKES!!! SO if you think about it, keep me in your prayers. You are in mine. God Bless and love ya, Princess!
Hey Brent:
Praise God for all the opportunities you are receiving for service. Stay connected with Him and let Him use you there. We remember you in our prayers.
. . . And could you by any chance bring back a couple of those "logs" I saw you carrying in the jungle? We could build some cool furniture with those!
Romans 5:18.
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