From Julia P. and Cammy...

Today we had the luxury of sleeping in a few hours because of our long day yesterday. After a late breakfast around 9:30, we headed off to a leprosy hospital. There we had the pleasure of meeting some joyous people affected by this rare disease. Each group broke off to talk to the patients, with different stories from everyone. Julia Petit and her group had the joy of meeting a particularly inspirational man named Juan whose life story was extremely compelling and moving. He spoke about how God is necessary in everyone's life and the impact it had on his. Juan was a evangelical pastor who devoted his time to tell locals the good news of Jesus Christ. During his years, Juan picked broken English and was able to communicate very well with us. At one time his life dream was to read an English Bible, but was unable to follow this dream because he went partially blind. Because of his blindness, Julia and her group decided to read the bible to him, a passage from Psalms 40. Along with Julia and her groups experience, myself (Cameron Heavican) was able to meet a wonderful woman name Dolores whose joyful spirit was contagious. We learned that she loved to listen to music, and wished that she had a radio to enjoy devotional music. We thought it would be a delight to sing to her, knowing that we have such good singers on our team. We ended up singing Awesome God in both English and Spanish, combined. This was one of the most amazing moments that i have been apart of, and definitely believe that God was with us during this brief time of worship. Dolores also really enjoyed the music, which made it all worth while. Overall today at the leprosy clinic we all experienced God first through these amazing people. It was a completely enjoyable experience in which we all gained from.