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So you’re probably wondering at this point what I’ve been doing this entire week in Southern Peru, and this is now the point where you’re about to find out!

Each day, five physical therapists and seven physical therapy students pile into a bus and head through the crazy, beep-happy downtown on our way to our Physical Therapy clinic.  For these two weeks that I am here, Medical Ministry International has launched a “campaign” to match the people of this Southern Peruvian city who are in most dire need of physical care with free treatment, evaluation, and medical equipment and supplies.  As an interpreter, I spend my time hopping from therapist to student breaking down the language barrier, making sure patients fully understand their situations and how to improve them, and writing up information sheets for our patients to take home.  However, because the work here with the community is so intimate, many times my job description sporadically morphs from translator to wheelchair repairman, to tent builder, to friend.  I also got the special opportunity to travel to a high-up mountain city for another special “campaign” to distribute wheelchairs to those who have no other options.

Every job and every responsibility is met with a laugh, a tear, and six and a half dozen pounds of adventure.  I would love to sit on here all day and type them all up for you, but being that I am with a team, this job is divided up amongst all of us (and computer time is limited).  So I would encourage you to also check out the team blog, where you can find all the minute and major details of the day-to-day adventures and tasks of this evermore fulfilling trip.

I would also ask that you keep a few things in your prayers.  For example, it seems like we’re all getting wacked pretty hard by some sort of cold/flu/plague, so if you could keep our health and safety in your prayers.  For me specifically, I want to ask you to pray for me that I would be able to put aside personal gain (in other words, the work I’m doing here is excellent experience and is ever-so-useful for personal advancement, but I need to have my heart solely focused on serving the needs of the people).

Oh, and we’re really high up down here.  When elevation is measured in the same units that you use to measure the distances between continents, you know you’re really high up (That would be miles, [or kilometers], ladies and gentlemen; 1.5 to be exact).