Miscelaneous!

These last couple of weeks, I've been with a friend of mine in the hospital. She is doing well now, and it's all good. I do want to tell a little bit about the experience I had while coming and going to visit her.

When one come to the hospital, you have to show your identification before you can enter. Then you have to know where the patient is, which bed, which is normal. The id card stayed with them guards at the gate of the hospital, and it was given back to you when you left. Well, this one afternoon when I was leaving they couldn't find it... but luckily it was a copy of my id. The day my friend was discharged, they still couldn't find it =) but it's all good.

The room that my friend stayed in was with 4 beds, but there were only 2 of them there. So we were able to stay with her pretty much the whole day. In her room we had to wear a mouth cover and a jacket because the lady in the bed next to her had severe pneumonia. I didn't know the first time I came in, and the nurse whom had one told me to put on one asap - so I did. And then things were ok.

Yesterday we had another clinic and we saw many people. One lady came up to me and said that she wanted her ears checked. Yfke did that, and they were both clean - something that is not very normal here =) often they have lots of wax and it's hard to syringe. We saw that she had a bandage on her right hand, and asked what had happened. She said that she hurt it the day before. Of course we asked her if we could pray for her, and guess what.... the pain left. She got so excited, and asked if we could pray for her feet also because at night they are burning. So we did, but we don't know cuz we haven't seen her since.

There was a man there that had a lot of sorrow in his life, and he was wandering why he had all these bad things happen to him. And why God allowed all of that to happen to him. Grace and I talked with him for a good while, and he knows what he needs to do, but he doesn't feel ready or something. But we prayed for him, and believe that God will work in his life and show him what he needs to do.

This week we are invited to dinner every night, what a treat. People here are so hospitable, kind and friendly.

Today we went to lunch with the combi driver, David - which is a person that comes to pick us up when we go to World Vision - the other side of Ecatepec which is the area we stay in. It's a bit of a hassle to get there with public transport because there are 13 of us. One day he drove us home, and said if you ever need transport.... if he knew. He is also going to take us to the airport when we are leaving on the 10th of June. A good guy!