Ma, Butterbutton, and Aunt Jalina

I would like to thank Ma for the inspiration that she has given me for the title of this post.  #sharehoodness

Meet Alyssa (Ma), Hannah (Butterbutton) and me (Aunt Jalina).  We're roommates.  And we are rocking room 201.

Yesterday was a pretty laid-back day, so we spent some of the time looking through old Instagram photos.  We found one of Hannah's where she is about to kiss a fish, and she put in the caption "#sharegoodness."  #sharegoodness is a hashtag done by the LDS Church to encourage us to share inspiring messages.  Hannah is really good at doing that....maybe too good.  She had no idea why she put #sharegoodness on that particular picture, but we thought it was hilarious.  Alyssa wanted to make fun of Hannah and put #sharegoodness on something random, but put made a typo that said #sharehoodness.  It describes pretty well what we're all about here in room 201.

So, I guess I should start with an apology.  We have been way super busy since we arrived here in Guayaquil.  Last Monday and Tuesday were filled with tours of the hospitals where we have been working.

 

 

This is all of us at the Luis Vernanza hospital.  At this hospital, we do mainly Med-Surg things.  I have been in the Burn Unit and the Operating Room here.  I got to see an Open Heart Surgery!!  This may sound weird to you, but that has always been a dream of mine.  I thought about President Russell M. Nelson the whole time.

 

I have also been to the Labor and Delivery hospital.  There are tons of babies being born all the time!  Here's a small portion of them:

Photo credit for this one goes to my good friend Jessica McCulloch. 

All the women labor without meds.  Props to them!

 

Last Tuesday, we went to tour a place where we were going to work called Hogar de Cristo.  When we got there, the director turned around and asked us to instead go help at the site of the earthquake.  Plans have been changed, and this week we are going to help at the earthquake site.  The site is about 4 hours away.  We divided into 2 groups.  One group works there today and tomorrow.  The other group will work there on Wednesday and Thursday.  I was supposed to go with the first group, but I came down with a nasty cold.  We'll see if I get to go with the second group.

 

Last Saturday, we took the day off from working and went to a beach resort.  It was amazing to run around on the sand, play in the waves, and sit back and relax.  I put on a ton of sunscreen to go play in the waves.  You know.  Since I'm really white.

 

I spent the rest of the day hiding from the sun.  And still got fried to a crisp.  LeCheminant problems.

 

That's it for now.  At least, that I can remember right now.

 

Love you all!