Thursday, October 18, 2012

Getting settled

 Well we have been in Kapsowar for 3 weeks tomorrow (friday) and we are learning so much! The above picture is at the entrance of the hospital. I (Aaron) am starting to almost have some small sort of idea of how to do medicine here! I'll post soon about my 1st week of work for all you interested out there. I did my first C-Section yesterday with Kyle assisting me. I was slow but everyone involved is doing well (myself included!)
 Last Saturday night we all woke up at 230am from a huge shaking of our house, we thought someone was trying to get into our house. Come to find out it was a huge branch of a tree that had fallen on the power lines. if fell about 30 ft. thankfully no one was hurt
 Here's mom leaving at 5am. She made it home but not the exact way we planned her too! She had to buy another ticket and wait for 9 hours in the Eldoret airport. We miss having her here but as Braelyn says "Nana had to go home to take care of Granddaddy". I'm sure he appreciates us letting her go back home! She is and was such a blessing to us here. Ready for our next visitors, so everyone plan a trip!
 Braelyn Layna and Isaac (the other Jones' youngest boy) watching the Ipad. It was a gift to us from a doctor in the states and has provided hours of entertainment!
 Jason and Anna Lattin and their family were here for a month and we were able to be with them for a couple of weeks. They have 4 children and their niece came with them. They finished the post residency program in 2010 where they served in Bangladesh. She is a family medicine doctor and he is a surgeon. They were so gracious to bring us diapers from the US and it was great letting the kids play together and hearing their wisdom and ideas about our 2 years here. We miss them so much!
 Braelyn and Esther Lattin. They played so well together! Braelyn is now naming her dolls after their family!
 Layna has become well reacquainted with her pacy (she cries for it and calls it her "Bassy, Bassy") It was a step back in my opinion but boy did we need it on the plane and the first weeks here. As Sonya has said "she could really go far in the fussiest kid contest" without it!
The girls are BIG fans of mud puddles. It is tough to keep them out of the mud! And the mud is plentiful when it rains here

Thank you so much for the prayers. We are living off of them right now. Things are good but any adjustment is hard for a while. We are trying to find our role and place in the community and in ministry. So much unfamiliarity but we are blessed to be here right now.
Thanks for reading! We miss you!

3 comments:

Sarah said...

Great update! Praying for you all and miss you tons. Love you!

Pam Zalewski said...

Love the updates! Keeping you guys in thoughts and prayers always, we miss you but are so proud of you and your work.

I look forward to seeing more pictures and reading the updates,

We love ya!

Pam Z

Anonymous said...

Just came across your blog. It seems like we were just in training together, and you've already been in Kenya for three weeks - wow! Glad you are settling in well. I look forward to more updates. :-)