Psalm 16:11
" You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forever more!"
How do I even begin to describe such an amazing day as today?! Praise Him!! We started out our day at the hospital around 9:30 am. Today we got the amazing opportunity to go to each of the patient's rooms and pray healing for them individually. Coincidentally (or not because God is amazing) the hospital we are working for is missing a chaplain at this time !! So rad to see how God works. We started out just going room to room praying for the patients, we were both filled with Joy as we prayed for them. They all seemed to really enjoy and appreciate the words of encouragement and prayers received. After praying for a certain amount of time we were both kinda feeling heavy on our hearts that our prayers would be sincere and not just words from our mouth of repetition.. We lifted up our prayers for each of our hearts at that time and continued with faith. Seriously about 5 minutes after we prayed.. the last patient that we went to pray for (Elisabeth) was truly a blessing. We walked in to see a lady in her late 60s maybe, bald, and very weak appearance with a smile that stretched from ear to ear. Elisabeth has cancer and has already undergone chemotherapy, she is still very sick and has to undergo blood transfusions each month. This woman had more gozo (joy) on her face than I have seen in a very long time. We explained to her like we did all the rooms that we are nursing students from the US and we are here to pray with the patients today. After saying this.. her face and the face of her friend visiting lit up so bright with so much excitement! Chels and I were so encouraged. We talked with her for a while about her family.. She kept telling us that we were a "regalito" (a small gift) because her daughter had just left her and she said that I looked like her daughter! The friend of Elisabeth who was there was also excited because she said that she wasn't planning on visiting until later in the day but something just made her get in the car and come to the hospital. She as well as we truly believe in such a divine appointment! We proceeded to pray for these ladies who were so beautiful and filled with joy even in the midst of so much pain and suffering. They were filled with even more joy and encouragement and we were just so excited to see how powerful the power of prayer and a little love can bring someone.
After this we were finished praying we went to our favorite place to eat (in the garage of a family across the street from the hospital) its called Antojitos Melina! The sweetest most beautiful family lives at this house and runs this restaurant. We ended up talking to our friend Amanda for a while about the difference between religiosity and relationship with Jesus. Interesting that we had this conversation because this has been heavy on my heart for a lot of this trip! After lunch, we still had some time left to work in the hospital. We made our way down to the operating room to help clean utensils and offer our help to the nurses there. When we got down there they told us that they were going to do a C-Section surgery in an hour! We were both so excited because they said we can watch and help with the post op baby care!! (have not even come close to an opportunity such as this in the states!)
The day kept getting better and better! We helped our nurse Eunese get everything ready for the baby in the nursery and then went down stairs to start the surgery! We were able to be inches away from the whole surgery! It was such a beautiful experience!! How amazing truly is the MIRACLE of life.. Sad to say this baby that was born.. was born with downs syndrome and the doctors did not know this before delivery. In the midst of the sadness, we continue to Praise Jesus anyways for the safe delivery because he is a son of the most High!
Thank you all again for continuing to pray... We got the opportunity to visit a very poor community (where we left about half of our hearts) about 5 minutes from the house a few days ago, we are praying and trying to make some plans to start afternoon work after the hospital in this community working with a church over there. Please keep that in your prayers that it would work out and for protection! Thank you!!! Love you guys!
Laurie
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sounds like big things are happening! more to come..
ReplyDeleteI'm so excited for the work you girls are doing over there! God is so good! Aaron and I have gotten our missions narrowed down to 3 places, but the doors are really opening wide for Madagascar. If they continue we should be there in a couple months. We still need to work on raising some money for tickets, but everything else is falling in place.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the awesome work! And remember, even if you don't see results now, don't be discouraged: you will see them someday in heaven. Seeds being planted are so so important! Don't forget it!