End of the School year fun and Christmas

Village kids playing on their "Toy"

End of the year trip to the local hotsprings
  David's fifth grade class was going to walk the 3-4 hours to the local natural hotsprings. But because the rain made the path dangerous, they went by vehicles instead and just walked down the last part (about 30-45 minutes). When some of his students complained even with this short walk, David thought "I can only imagine if they walked the whole 3-4 hours!"

OUR OWN ROOM!

The church moved and in its new location theres room upstairs for the Sunday School!

Cupcakes!!

School examens finish two weeks before the school year is officially over. One of the German girls in his class, Hannah, suggested that they make cupcakes. David told her the problem is that theres no a oven in the school yet. Hannah replied: We can make them in your house of course.

Christmas Eve Service in the Hospital Chapel

Christmas!!

Christmas fell on a Sunday this year, so we celebrated as a church family.  We rent an apartment on the third floor of a local families home. They live on the 2nd floor, and their party room is on the first floor.  Mario and Dominga are a Catholic family but are always so nice, and let us use the first floor (which has an enormous table). 

We started dividing in several groups to enact the various parts of the Christmas story.

Christmas lunch of turkey, mashed potatoes, apple sauce, and dinner rolls.

And we finished up playing Settlers of Catan and Ticket to Ride!

How many docs do you need to fix a dislocated elbow

Juan arrived at 5:30am after a car accident.  There were rocks in the road because of the rains.  The car struck them and smashed against a large truck.  Juan was the only one injured with a dislocated elbow.  The problema is that the men here work hard and are very muscular (his forearm was bigger tan my proximal arm).  I passed by Mark (the White guy in the back, a new American FP here) and asked him to help.  Susan, the German anesthesiologist, is the left of Mark.  Jonathan is the Peruvian XRay tech on my left.  The three of us pulled without luck.  I looked at Susan, asking for hlep.  Dont look at me, she said, I hate dislocations, too.  So we called Klaus (to my right).  With 2 pulling one direction and 2 pulling the other, and lots of medicine, the arm went back into place!

Update on my Peruvian Medical License and an Upcoming Adventure.

Peruvian Medical License.
  In July according to the new regulations at Diospi I submitted my application to one of the Medical schools in Lima from which Diospi accepts residents for month rotations.  In October they rejected my application because I'm a D.O. (doctor of Osteopathic medicine).  After "re-looking" at the application for a couple of weeks the finally rejected my application permenantly.  Because my application was no longer "in-process" I wasn't able to work in the hospital, so I helped out as much as I could in the Diospi school.
   I heard about another way to apply for revalidation of my USA medical license through the goverment educational department. After waiting for the other document that they wanted, in December I resubmitted my application through the SUNEDU.  Since again my application was "in-process", I was allowed to work again in the hospital.  They said in 30 business days they would say whether or not the revalidation of my Medical Licence will be in process. 
      Please be praying.  I should be hearing from them in January.
    Please be praying for our future as well.  David and I are planning on a month in the USA in 2018 for David's visa and so that he can learn English well.  We have been praying about where God is calling us in 2019. We feel called to an English speaking country (?in Africa?), so that David can really master English.  Through Samaritan's Purse we have planned a vision trip to Uganda and Zambia this month.  We leave January 11, 2017 and return Feb 3, 2017.  Please pray for our trip. That everything runs smooth enough and most importantly, that God makes it clear where He is calling us next.

Entrevista a los pobladores de Curahuasi---interview of the people of curahuasi

¿Cuantos hijos tiene?

As a project at the end of the school year David challenged his students to be curious. He helped them form questions to ask the people of Curahuasi, and then sent them out. 

"How many kids do you have?"

¿Cuál es su plato favorito?

"What is your favorite dish?"

¿Qué es lo que más le gusta de Curahuasi?

"What do you like most about Curahuasi?"

¿Que programa de TV mira?

"What TV show do you watch?"

¿En qué colegio estudio?

In which school did you study?

¿En qué trabaja?

What is your job? What do you do?

mmmm algunos pensaban mucho para responder nunca les habían hecho una entrevista

Hmmmmm.....Some think alot before responding.  They've never been interviewed before.

¿Que haces los domingos? - nada

What do you do on Sundays? ---Nothing.

A la pregunta ¿Qué le hace falta a Curahuasi? todos respondieron - Un mejor sistema de AGUA

To the question "What does Curahuasi lack?"...everyone responded, "A better system of distributing the water each day."

Taller de pintura---Oil painting project in the woman's Group!

In our Monday night woman's group we started an oil painting project. We always end with a devotional message but their was the hardest project to get them to stop and take a break! The women thoroughly enjoyed both painting and our study of how to be a woman of excellence. 

When the women had finished their projects we envied them, their friend and their family to the church one night. They were able to share their art work, with finger food and then David shared a short message. It was good because some of the women sell produce in the Sunday market and otherwise never are part of a church family. 

Hipolita.

Wilma. Katerina's aunt.

Ruth.

"I am the vine and you are the branches" by Deisy

Katerina (Who has now invited her mom and several aunts)

Pokemon--by Igor (one of David's students and Ruth's son)

A thank you painting for Klaus and Martina. It says "Well done, good and faithful servent. -Jesus" in German.

Mi primera pintura, gracias a mi esposa.

My (David's) first oil painting, thanks to my wife (who taught me how to paint).

Visita de un gran amigo (The visit of a Special friend and Encouragement)

Un lindo atardecer en Curahuasi

Sunset in Curahuasi. 

Visitando una laguna de la comunidad

Ed Morrow the director of The world medical mission part of Samaritan's Purse, came for a visit. Together we visited a lake high in one of the neighboring villages.