Life Lately

 Not sure what else to call this except "Life Lately". A little of this and a little of that. Going with the old quote "A picture is worth a thousand words", here is a few thousand words :)

Sam's class made this for Jeffs finance team. Everything here overlaps in amazing ways, even the school and the bank. 

My patients continue to be the highlight of my days. About 55 cute kids in casts are coming to the rehab department, and very soon there will be more and more without casts! Then we make those beautiful straight legs strong before sending them home. Forever privileged to be part of their story. 

This is the current rehab team. They are from New Zealand, Australia, the UK, Belgium, the US, Netherlands, Spain and Sierra Leone. Beautiful people with servants hearts. 

These are our daycrew. They all live in Sierra Leone but travel everyday to the ship to work for Mercy Ships. They do translation, sure, but so much more. Exercises with patients, helping us understand the culture, etc etc etc. Most of these I have known for both years, a few from just this year, but all sweet friends of mine I will miss dearly when we sail away. 

We recently had an event called "African Praise Night". It was a beautiful night of people from around the world singing in many languages. Felt like heaven. 

Life in Sierra Leone is interesting. There is always something to see when walking/driving around. We were trying to figure out how many people were in this KayKay!

These are a few fun this things from the hospital. The first is all the feet are the orthopedic patients, and every hand is someone who has cared for them. Beautiful. Another is puzzle pieces patients colored, and finally a note written by a patient. Although a hospital and very clean (thank you housekeeping!) I love that it is also colorful and vibrant! 

Do you want to know more? Have questions? Reach out to us anytime! We love texts from home. 

Love,

J^2, L, S^2