Rising Star Outreach -- Day 3

Ok, so there are few pics from today, but incredible memories.  we went to the colonies today.  We went to Calvary Colony, about an hour from the outreach.  We pulled up to the church that we were doing the clinic in.  The church has all of the windows broken out, it was very plain.  The medical staff pulled up and were so efficient to get the van unloaded.  They had a fully operational leperacy treatment center in about 5 minutes.  My assignment was to wash the feet for the afflicted patients.  These are patients that have sores on their legs from the leperacy.  Many don't have much of their feet remaining.  The first patient came in, and was handed his file.  (They keep very good records of their patients.  I am amazed at how well they are taken care of by the outreach.) The patient did not have fingers left, the leperacy had taken them, so he held his file between his hands.  He was first in line, I don't know how long he was standing there waiting,  but he waited so patiently, he came in ran through the whole testing with a huge smile.  He came to the washing station.  He had his bandages cut off, then he was washed.  I did not wash him, but watched as he patiently sat there having his little nub of a foot cleaned.  He could not walk without a special shoe he has to wear, but proudly he sat on the floor and scooted to the next station to be rebandaged and get more medicine.  It was people like him that made this day so amazing.  I was sad that there were only about 15 patients out of 60 that showed up, I hope that it means that the other are doing well.  I washed about 6 or 7, Carl my trusty assistant provided the towels and helped with the process.  Each patient was in different stages, but all were reasonably affected.  There is something amazing about washing the feet of the afflicted.  When we were finished, with the same efficiency they packed up the van.  After that we went to a bird sanctuary to watch some birds.  It was interesting, there were monkeys.  Love the monkeys!  Then we came home, back to the outreach.  We took a break to teach the younger volunteers magic, which they are digging on right now.  Then we ran off to play time with the kids.  Again, like yesterday it was really awesome.  "Uncle" do this, "Uncle do this" we ran all over.  I am sore all over from throwing kids.  It was really fun.  Then off to prayer time.  Tonight was much better than last night.  We sang "I know that my redeemer lives" and then talked about being thankful.  It was really neat.  I was truly thankful for this experience here.  It is so amazing.  Tomorrow we are taking some kids and patients to Chennai for check ups.  I will track down the official pictures from today.  We are loving it here.  Carl is already freaking out about leaving.  I don't think he would ever leave.