Sunday, June 14, 2009

Lea writes from Samban:

I went to another village with Karie today, she was visiting a patient and I went fishing with a stick, a hook, worms and styrofoam for a bobber. Karie went to the patient and I just followed some little kids from that village. Couldnt really talk or understand them but I just went along. Went to the garden 2 miles away a few days and picked rice and cut down bananas. We ride the quad to get out there and the path leaves much to be desired and has lots of holes filled with mud. The one front wheel no longer has its mud guard either, so needless to say it's a bit of a muddy drive.

Wednesday a pregnant girl came into the clinic and was only a few months along, but was shaky and stuff and Karie thought maybe she had low blood sugar. Someone from church donated some blood glucose testing systems. The nurse isnt here right now so we figured it out on our own. I read the directions and looked at the pictures and we got the girl's blood tested and turns out her count was low. Karie commented, "what are the chances that when she actually needed that (blood testing kit) it just happend to come." So that was really neat and definitely a praise. I clean up after Karie and count out doeses of pills and medicine when I'm at the clinic usually.

The teachers are overwhelmed (in a good way!) with all the stuff we brought, it's so much for them. They were discussing amongst themsleves why their school always gets help and not the government shcool and wondering if the Pryors had asked for it. Karie had overheard though and came walking in and told them that she and Jesse didn't even know Charlie and I and dropped the hint that God is blessing them and its His doing that we came and brought all the supplies. The school is so Chrstian and is so awesome to see. The kids say the Lord's prayer everyday when they start.

I'm so sticky! and just wanna be for real clean :P oh well. Saturday I got up at 7 to go fish again. It rained the night before so everything was really muddy even on the normal path. On the way back we went a back way which was supposedly a short cut. It was more of just a little path. It was so slippery and muddy! I almost slipped a bunch of times. Karie was like, ' well now you have been thrashing through the bush' because it was just a path in the middle of the jungle. I walked across this wobbly bridge that was just a log then a plank to cross the river. It had kinda a hand rail part of the way but it was out a little from the log and it was wobbly too. Karie didn't walk on it and took the canoe because she fell on one like that once haha. Then I walked across a coconut tree trunk to get across another creek. Yesterday the basketball "court" was really muddy from the rain, especially on the one end so Jesse dumped a bunch of dirt and we spread it around. But the dirt is black and pretty moist itself, so things were still muddy. Then they dumped corn millings on that, which is kind of like saw dust. I wasn't planning on playing till the court dried out at least a little. The ladies and moms wanted to play last night though and wanted me to play so we played full court - mud, millings, and all. The ball was slippery and slimy most of the time and since 3/4 of the court was wet and/or muddy or just really thick dirt we couldn't really dribble, so we had to pass to get the ball up the court. It was fun, the ladies told me we were all sisters. I had mud all over me when it was all said and done but it's no big deal; being muddy and dirty is nothing new - its a regular thing now haha. Thankfully Charlie and I are both healthy which is a huge praise! Thank you all for your prayers!