Hospital Run and Lingue Baco (Cow Tongue)

The first day, we woke up super early which was great and we met Alexis, who is one of the directors here at our headquarters. He took us to two Paraguay public hospitals which was an eye-opening experience. Most of the time spent in one of the hospitals was in the maturnity ward. This is a huge ministry in the hospital. What happens is the pregant women come from all over outside the city with nothing but there clothes on their backs and have their baby. The majority of the ministry in the maturnity ward happens when the mothers are forced to stay with their baby because they had their son/daughter premature. Some of these babies are under 500 grams, which is a shocking sight. But these mothers are cared for very well and given food and clothes, and some of these mothers have to stay 2-3 months. It was a great place to be on our first day, visiting people and praying with some of them.
Later on, we met some of Judah´s friends (Judah is also part of our team, he´s the one that hooked us up with a sweet place to stay and a truck, he´s our good friend and leader) Judah´s friend Angel took us to this place where they served cow tongues and intestines and something that looked like cow brain. We all three were feeling adventurous, some more then others, it was chewy and tasty.

One of the exciting things that is happening for us right now is we´ve been asked to help A.I.A Paraguay with developing a template for their sports camps and working alongside the Paraguayan Women´s national soccer team. We were asked to help create the template for the camp because there has never been any sports camps in the history of Paraguay. There have been clinics--one in which we will be helping with this weekend--but there has never been the structure of a sports camp. We are told that our camp experience is exactly what they want. Pretty crazy...so we have our work cut out for us. Oh ya, and we are doing this alongside two people from ¨Transforming Paraguay Today¨(which by the way is the unification of Power to Change and Jesus Respondé). One of two of these people is the assistant to the first lady or something like that. She is really cool though and we were at dinner at the most expensive restaurant in the city with her and the other leader of AIA and they are very awesome people.

By the way, that restaurant had tons and tons of meat and was a very amazing place and it cost about the price of a good meal at Tim Hortons.