Here's a quick rundown of prayer requests for this week. So you know what's going on with on and how we could use prayer.
In short, people are sick. People are pretty much sick here a lot. I think just statistically having over 40 kids, somebody is always going to be sick. But also, just with the lifestyle in general here people tend to get sick.
==> Right now we have three kids with malaria just because it's that time of year. The rain has come (finally) and there's more standing water around and these things happen. Usually they get stuck with a fever for a day or two and then the medicine kicks in and they're back on their feet in a week. It's still not very much fun, as routine as it is. (Average Mozambican gets it nearly two times a year).
==> Times when malaria can be really dangerous---when it's caught early and treated it's not dangerous unless you're really young or really old--- is when a normal case turns into cerebral malaria. That's the case for Pedro, a staff worker in the office, right now. You need to undergo an aggressive treatment and be under supervision of doctors/nurses and lots of rest. It also means that our office work has ground to a halt. Unfortunately for us as well as him, cerebral malaria is affecting the part of his brain that controls speech, so when we talk or try to ask questions what comes out is blabber and non-sense. It's a really scary disease and he can use a lot of prayer.
==> I'm sick and had a bad stomach ache for the last two days. I've just become accustomed to the fact that from time to time everybody's stomach gets out of joint here. I told the kids and they just kind of shrugged and said, "Yep, you're probably due for one."
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