Monday, February 25, 2008 the start of our second week. It started out like every other day here. If you slept well as I have, the alarm goes off at 6:30am, breakfast at 7am. We had devotions and boarded our bus at 8am. The project staff has devotions and prayer every Monday and we have had the privilege to share this time with them.After devotions we were divided into home visit teams. Home visits are my favorite part of this project. We feel honored to be welcomed into the homes of those we are serving. Today my team members were Vito, Carpenter, Brian (the new intern who arrived yesterday) Aynalem (an expert patient) and Betty (the staff member). We walked twenty minutes, through the kebele, across two busy streets and arrived at Gebeyenesh’s home.As we started to climb the rock steps to her home we heard a baby crying. It turned out to be Gebeyenesh’s granddaughter, Hiwot. When asked what happened Gebeyenesh said the baby had pulled a pot of hot water off the table. We undressed the baby and saw a large, blistering wound on the baby’s stomach and left wrist. We rinsed the wounds with cool, clean water and were able to use a cell phone to call the office to make sure the pharmacy was unlocked. Not only was the pharmacy unlocked but Teddy also sent Gizow in a car to pick us up. Within 15 minutes of the burn we were able to clean the wounds and apply silvadene cream and wrap the wounds. Not too bad for a third world country! We will see the baby on Tuesday morning and change her bandages.Please pray as we continue to serve alongside an amazing team of Ethiopians.Rose

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