Our two VIM teams serving in Rio Bravo and Monterrey!

hello everyone!

we miss yall and are trying to represent you the best we can...it was a great day today. we served an epispocal church, new with cement floors new building and bathrooms with flushing toilets. super. i was at the intake table and my 2 years of college spanish came in handy. we did not have enough interpreters so, i was it at the intake table...i did okay, forgot and remembered lots of words. we saw 138 patients and many went to two or three different doctors. we have two rooms with 4 doctor stations set up in each. Blanca, our main translator, could be in the room and translate for gary smith(dentist) and susie willard(doctor). She is a great help for us! we found a young girl that was in the circus in the USA for 6 years and we grabbed her up to be a translator. molly and Suzy were awesome helping translate also. we checked eyes, teeth, and for blood sugar. i think almost everyone with a little weight on them is diabetic. lots of cavities in lots of kids. several dogs running around the clinic as well...i think everything went so smooth, i am so impressed with the whole thing. it is very different from the youth trips in lots of ways and very much alike in lots of ways. oh, i have a funny story about amy cheatem yesterday...we were eating nopales and she asked blanca if the green beans in mexico were called cactus (it looked and tasted just like green beans), blanca says no, that is cactus! well, it was funnier when it happened. she never touched them for the rest of the meal! oh, i am also reporting on the guys in rio bravo...my husband joe brower is there with them and they had two teams working on a school. they finished it except for the roof and will put it on tomorrow. the other team worked on a casita. they love the accomodations they have! they also were reminded to work on their relationships with each other and of course, joe said, oh, yeah...oh, don't worry we are! he said it is really a great trip because their ages span from twenties on up.

well, we are back home and thankful for the day. i hope your day was a great one. i am sorry for my spelling and the keyboard is a little different. again thank you for this opportunity.
ruth brower