praise God. be blessed as you listen.

so day two started out pretty early for all of us. I woke up at 5:30am, no alarm needed and mostly everyone else was up before their alarms went off too whether it be because they went to bed at 8:30 the night before or because they had trouble sleeping the first night. we had breakfast, worship and a devotional which was on Corinthians 13 (one of my favs) before heading out for the day. first stop was to go back to the new creation center school where 75 kids call us auntie and uncle and sing us songs of gratitude for the things they are blessed with. everytime one of these precious kids spoke they said, "praise God.", introduced the song, and then said "be blessed as you listen." they are all great singers and dancers... super animated and passionate as they sang. from the fun and crazy sons where we got up and danced and jumped around with them, to the serious songs with eyes closed and hands open. we had a lot of fun with them and they all loved hanging out with us. we danced a lot and try taught us their african-style moves. the kids had lunch and we got to try what's called portia. not sure of the spelling but its supposed to be a cream of wheat kind of thing but thick like rice. I thought it was good so I ate beans and portia for lunch with the kids. after that, we went into one of the slums to pass out deworming tablets as well as candy (called sweets or sweeties) and cookies (called biscuits). the deworming tablets are passed out every six months by a team from loving one by one ministries and it's important because if these people he worms then the little nutrition they may be getting will be consumed by the worms. there were so many kids and once we got done passing out our stuff, we played with them, walked with them, danced with them, and just got rearly dirty with them. it was a long day but always worth it. at one point I was sitting with a group of kids when one older girl had a seizure. luckily, I got to her pretty quickly and sent other to get help since we have some awesome medical staff on this trip. a lady who's a very experienced nurse on our team came over and we helped the girl, margaret, recover. we walked her to where she lives and talked with her care taker. she has a history of epilepsy and after moving, wasn't able to afford thru medication that used to be given to her for free. the nurse, who's name is also margaret, talked with sherry, or director and we were able to get the girl a year supply of her medicine. so awesome. I am so in love with this place and these people. trips like this are life changing even after bein on several missions trips. there are a lot of similarities between haiti and uganda by i've also found a lot of differences. it's neat bein in a new place and feeling really at home and at ease with everything around. the weather i,s nice. little hot during the day nut the humidity is more than tolerable. and one of my biggest praises at the moment... the mosquitoes have not seem to noticed me. not one bite. I'm taking garlic pills but haven't really been using bug spray. woohoo! we stopped by the new creation family home which only has about 16 kids and was where we hung out for a good chunk of the day yesterday. just from that one interaction, the kids already love their auntie and uncles. we got little notes that the kids will write and then just pass out to several of us and we got notes from specific kids to specific people on the team. I hung out with sharon for most of the time spent there so she gave me a note today that she worth for me. so cute. these kids are the sweetest. I'm so happy to be here and our team is very dynamic but everyone is gettin along so well. I apparently sleep the lest of everyone so once again, I'm the last one up. time to get some sleep for another big day tomorrow. medical clinic number one.