Day 6 - Witto Clinic

Tuesday, March 19th

Today breakfast had a special treat of spaghetti noodles to accompany our standard rolls and eggs.   Shayna did her devo this morning on on Psalm 60. Clinic was in Witto which was close to Matta.  They actually had a school building where we set up clinic.  Vision in one room, registration and triage in another, and the practitioners/pharmacy in the 3rd.  Jonathan floated around and talked with different people all day.  After clinic got started, I went out to where Jonathan was and shared "the story" with many of those waiting to be seen.  It is a flip book where the words are facing me and the pictures face them.  It starts by telling a story about a happy and healthy village in S Sudan.  It then turns to when they had to flee their villages because of the civil war, but then of their people being rescued and able to return home many, many years later. It transitions over to the story of Adam and eve in the garden and eating from the fruit and fleeing.  It talks about God as the rescuer, sending Jesus to restore us.  It then shares 5-6 gospel points with scripture. We try to make it interactive, but it's hard sometimes thru the translators.  My translator was so eager to practice his English during the presentation, that it took quite a while.  At the end, he wanted me to write down all the verse for him and he was so happy that I did.  While these people were very happy to see us, they were also a little more aggressive than the people in Matta.  They all wanted to be seen, but we couldn't see them all.  We saw about 200 today, which we felt was a great accomplishment through Gods strength.  The most interesting case was of cutaneous leishmaniasis.

Emily and Lauren gave their translator a bible - he waited patiently all day while everyone else was being seen and only asked to be seen at the very end.  

Back at the compound we had showers and you guessed it - rice and beans for dinner. We also washed a few clothes in small buckets.  Debby and Shayna talked to the local "pharmacist," Bennett, who lived in the compound where we stayed.  We stayed up til 10 or so just talking under the mango tree and telling the many stories of our day.

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