Eating and sharing your gift

Today, we were all at Lemoa in the clinic and a lot of things were going on. There was a lot of different activities. One of the activities was that Kemmel and Lisa were gifted a chicken from Mactzul VI! I asked Kemmel if he was going to take it home and raise it. He said, "No! The brothers told me that it is ready to eat!"

Before I knew it, Juan went and, "did what he needed to do," so they could prepare it for our lunch.

We saw 17 medical patients today and Gaspar had 7 dental cleanings.

I saw several diabetics and most of their blood sugars were under control.

One gentleman always comes with his wife and they live in Chiqua. He has heard of the new clinic there but there are bad feelings between him and that family, so he wanted to explain why he will continue to come to Lemoa and not be at the new clinic.

The exciting part of the story is that he and his wife are constumbre, which is a Mayan religion. He told me that he thinks the Bible is difficult to understand and is confusing. I reminded him about the first time he brought his wife to our clinic. All of the medicine was new, the diet that his wife would need to follow was difficult to understand, everything was confusing to them...........and now, they understand more and she feels so much better.

You can apply understanding the Bible in the same manner. We do not understand it all the first time we hear it. The message is slow for us at times. We need time to think about it and to find ways to apply it to our life. I asked him this week to think about his relationship to God and how he wanted that to be. I also talked to Gaspar about this family and we hope that we will have the opportunity to visit them in their home.

When it was time for lunch, Martina served us our chicken soup. It was wonderful. Our neighbor lady prepared it for us and it was good!

Thank you, Mactzul VI for thinking of Kemmel and Lisa.......and thank you, Kemmel and Lisa for sharing!