Week 4

This week is going alright; I haven’t thrown up since Tuesday, which is good. In these four days I have worked 50 hours, although tomorrow I have a day off. It is a lot of work. We are really super short on staff, so that has been hard, and I am now one of the main Cuna workers. Last night, Sunday, the Cuna got a new baby, who is under a month old. So I had the night shift, which was really difficult because there is also a 3 month old, and they need to be fed throughout the night. I didn’t get any sleep. I also got little sleep the night before because I went to bed late and had to also do the morning shift yesterday. Tonight I am also doing the night shift. It is really difficult. It is hard to have to deal with a baby that cries about every 5 minutes when you are so tired, and then with another that cries every 3 hours. So this is definitely stretching my patience.

The new baby doesn’t have a name, but we call him Abraham. His mother had him at a migrant camp – a very dirty and poor migrant camp, and he got sick right away. She gave him to he Cuna to take care of when he was 11 days old because the camp was too dirty, and they were too poor to take care of him. Hopefully, when he is older, she will take him back. He is such a tiny baby, about the size of a new born. It is so scary holding him; I feel like I will break him, or hurt him. It is scary doing the night shift because I don’t really know what I am doing. No one ever taught me what to do, so I hope what I think I should do is the best.

Oh yes and it was Roy’s first birthday party this week.

Prayer Requests:
Even though it is hard work here, I really want to make a difference and to help out. I am not sure if God is calling me to be here longer or not. I could definitely use some prayer that God would reveal that to me. But I have been considering staying longer. I think it would be fun to start an art class at the school and teach that. I think I would also still be working in the Cuna, which would be hard work doing both, but if I do stay longer, that is what I want to do. So I think then I would stay until Christmas if I do that. In some ways I feel like God is calling me home, but I don’t know for what, so I dunno – just pray that God could open up some doors for me in what he wants me to do. I really want to go to Uganda next summer, and I feel that is something God is calling me to do, but I could also use prayer about that too. Thank you guys! I miss you all sooo much!