Mazatlan Day 3

I am still having trouble downloading pictures so I guess all those will have to wait until I get back. Today was another great day. We woke up to a pure gift from God- it was cloudy and rained a bit... priceless weather! We headed out to Madero. This is something I did not post about yesterday because I know my mom reads this and she would worry. Madero being the "tolerant" zone has its share of violence which seems to be getting worse. Apparently some man just got out of prison for murder and there is going to be a 15th birthday party (quinceria - spelling??) there tonight which is a huge deal in this culture at a house right next to the church. There has been an apparent rumor flowing loud enough for the pastor to hear that someone is going to be shot at that party as revenge. I do not know if someone was planning to shoot that guy or someone in his family. Dave, the pastor there who comes with us everyday, thought that there would not be any problem because we would leave earlier than the party would start but he wanted to make us aware. We talked about it as a team and realized God is in this with us and His will will be done. We had a good prayer time this morning praying not only for our safety but for the families and innocent people who live in this type of situation everyday. We get to leave it and go "back" to our lives and they do not. Bottom line is that nothing happened, not even one thing fishy or scary. We saw 87 patients today and it went really smoothly. Bill and I got testy with each other about "who was doing more work?" because we are the only two people seeing patients. We resolved and I think I have to bite the bullet and saw today the answer was him but I am still nonetheless exhausted.

We have one more day in clinic tomorrow before we have Sunday for church and Monday for our day off. Tomorrow will be a modified clinic day seeing patients only from about 1-4 as there will be a meal and service for the kids at Valles in the morning that we will help out with.

Prayer requests:
renewal of energy to give it one more day before we have some good rest
for our patience with each other and for our tongues not to be sharp and for grace with each other to be overflowing
for that party in Madero tonight that no one would get shot and that girl could celebrate her 15th birthday like a princess