Whew!

As I logged on to the blog, I was astounded to realize that I haven't posted in a month, but a quick reflection on the past few weeks makes it abundantly clear why!

• Hot Metal Bridge group was here during our week of standardized testing with homeschool. Between bubble sheets, we traveled a bit with this "funky, punky, tattooed and pierced" group of amazing young believers. Their week was marred by the terrifying but survivable injury of a group member who was clotheslined and pulled out of a cattle truck while riding into Santo Domingo. I'll post more about this group, their adventures, and their response to their friend's injury in another post.
• We've been trying to wrap up homeschooling for the year, which means standardized testing, final exams, grading & recording....the whole nine yards. The homeschool adventure has been just that - an adventure. It was both better and harder than we expected, but all in all, it's been a success.
  
• 2 weeks of medical mission caravan in the jungle setting of Yaxoquintela (the former Wycliffe Missionary Jungle Training Camp) was both wildly successful and wildly exhausting. 2 weeks, 5 doctors, 7 nurses, 2 nursing students, 45 other volunteers, days and days of rain and inches deep mud and 4051 patients. Yes, 4051 in 10 clinic days. One day we saw as few as 270 patients, but one day we saw 720! More details to follow!
• And now we rest...between pounds and pounds of muddy laundry, 3 summer volunteers, lingering final exams, bills to pay and emails to answer.
  

Thanks be to God for amazing people with a passion for Mexico, a soft bed, Mexicans who pitch in to help make miracles happen, a chance to sleep later than 5:45, the stamina we've needed to keep going, and 5 days off.