During our time in Leticia, we did various work projects around the base and in the community. Some of these activities included using machetes to mow lawns and picking up garbage in the streets.
We had the opportunity to serve in a nursing home, cleaning, helping in the kitchen, and visiting with residents.
My first day there I was so excited because I was given the opportunity to work in the infermery. I thought that I would be finding residents and bringing them to the nurses, which I did, but I was also able to treat some wounds. The nurse explained the process to me, and I cared for open sores on an old man's feet. I saw more things than most people want to see in a lifetime, but for me this was a definig moment. It was one of those things that confirmed what I plan on doing with my life, heath care in missions.
Sometimes we sit and wonder, "God, what do you want me to do with my life" It's a very good question but sometimes we fail to actively seek the answer. I think that we need to go out and experience different things whether that means mentoring children of the inner city, landscaping yards, knitting blankets, whatever it is that we have a passion to do. And in that, through that, God can speak. He can confirm that question we ask by saying, this is where I want you or even expand from there. This experience in the nursing home was one of those experiences for me.
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