Have you ever had one of those adrenaline rushing moments when you over slept......Well I had one yesterday morning except I was awaken by my roommate telling me that I was suppose to be at work. Oops. I thought I was suppose to work an evening shift and it turns out I was suppose to work a day shift. One nice thing about ship life is that I have to just walk down the hall and I am at work :) I did feel bad cause it was only my 3rd shift. That was only the second time in my nursing career (8yrs) that I have done that. But it ended a great day.

I got to watch an operation. You may look at the pictures below. This patient was injured in the 14yr civil war here in Liberia during a bomb blast. Basically his fingers are all contracted in different directions. So the dr released the thumb so that he at lieast can have a pinch motion. It's done by breaking the bone and resetting it with wires. Then they take a skin graft from the thigh to fill in the gap. It's crazy how they do things like that.

Last night was our big community meetings. They have them on Thurs. instead of Sun. so that people can go to churches in Monrovia on Sunday mornings. Which is really nice. The speaker spoke on our calling and what exactly that is. He said that everyone of us on earth's calling is for salvation first. Then from that comes our individual callings. He shared a quote from his friend who is a missioinary in New Guinea that I thought was so good. "You are a success in God's kindom when you are faithful where He has put you." I thought that was so good. No matter what we are doing we are all ministers of the Gospel and we need to always remember that.

Tonight is going to be my first night off the ship!!!! A group of us are going out for dinner so that should be fun.

Thanks for staying in touch with my life here in Africa. Keep praying for all of us onboard but especially the patients for quick healing. There has been some major spiritual warfare on the ward with pt's putting curses on other pt's etc. We know that greater is He that's in us then he that is in the world. Pray that the demonic strong holds will be torn down and that the enemy will not get the victory.

Be blessed!