Letter from Lisa Mitchell about her trip to Honduras

Hi Cheryl,

I was so sorry to hear if Curt's death. He fought such a hard fight and I know you will miss him very, very much. He is probably walking down the streets of gold right now telling Jesus all about the needs of the people of Honduras (as if Jesus didn't already know!) and is asking Him to bless them and your ministry. Curt's love for others truly shone and he will be missed by everyone that knew him.

I am so sorry we did not get to see you in Honduras but we had a great visit! It was truly life changing. Thank you for helping to facilitate our trip. We stayed very busy and loved every minute of it. I do not think you can ever realize just how great the need is until you see it for yourself! Paul and Kim and their children are wonderful. We fell in love with them immediately. Also Jack and Nancy and Anna and Tiffany were immediately like part of the family. I already miss them terribly!

Thanks you for setting us up to teach in the clinic. Those nurses and lab techs were so eager to learn and the classes went great. They were so thankful for the supplies - especially the gloves. It was so pittiful that they did not have enough gloves to wear and change between each patient. We also showed them how to use LED pen lights as a tranisilluminator to find veins in infants. They were pretty amazed with that. We were able to bring and leave 2 teaching baby maniquins and you would have thought we had given them gold. It was an awesome experience. We take so much for granted in the states.

Linda and I also worked with a group from Alabama and Martin (MD) and Wendy (Wylie and Candi were the missionaries) at a clinic set up at a church. We treated probably close to 1000 persons all together there. It was very hard though to see them given two weeks worth of hypertensive drugs with no followup. I still wonder what will happen to those people. Also the babies that came through that were already very sick and malnurished. It was so sad but truly changes my life!

The time we spent in the mountains and saw the people there and their hunger for Jesus was amazing. To see people willing to spend 3-4 hours to walk to church and their living conditions was unbelievable. But they all seemed happy and so loving - You truly could see Jesus in their lives. I find it hard to come home and really describe to others the experience we had!

And the deaf center - WOW! I had such a great time with Doris, Marcellena, Rosa, Edwin, and Gilma and the rest of the gang. It was awesome to see the things that the Lord was doing there!

Again, Thank you for helping to make this trip happen for all of us. I hope to come back again.
You and the others are always in my prayers! God Bless you!
Lisa Mitchell