What am I doing?

Well today was another exciting day. We arrived to find one of the woman who was in labor yesterday fully dilated and pushing. The baby was in a frank breach position which means that both the arms and the legs are up above the head and the baby is delived bottom first. I learned that this is not a good position for delivery very fast. Olive was able to deliver the body of the baby and everything was going pretty well until the head got stuck and would not budge. Another doctor then came rushing in and together they were able to deliver the baby boy. He was a little stunned but very healthy. After this, things at the hospital were kind of slow. We walked around to do rounds. There were a few new cases that came in through out the night but not anything too serious. We then waited around awhile and then right after Olive and I got done discussing the word quit, another woman comes in. She had just arrived, she was fully dilated and ready to push,and having TWINS!! It was a a pretty good delivery but the mom was tired after the first baby and had a harder time pushing. In the end we got two healthy babies, a boy and a girl! The mom then began to hemorrhage a little and so we started her on an IV. The best part was, Jake(one of the missionaries)let me put the IV in and coached me through it(YEAH!!). I am learning so much. Below is a picture of the twins that were born today! Enjoy!


I've enjoyed my time at the hospital and in Mali a lot but it has also been a huge challenge. I am really struggling with missing my family and home right now. Today was a very emotional day for me. I just really struggle with having to leave my family full time. As many of you know I felt the call towards missions since I was 11 years old. I just also felt God was leading me some where not in the US, but it's such a struggle for me to leave home. Christmas is going to be hard, but I know that Jesus lead me here for a reason and I'm ready for whatever he has planned to teach me. God is really stretching me while I'm here and it's only been a week, I can't imagine what it will be like when I leave! Please continue to pray for the hospital and the missionaries here especially over Christmas as they are away from loved ones too.

The missionaries here are such great people! I've really enjoyed getting to know them. I was able to give them all of their gifts tonight and they absolutely loved them(Thanks Jessica :) ). It was so great to see them get so excited over pepperoni and bacon! I also am giving the watches to all of the nurses tomorrow and I am very excited. The missionaries were very impressed with the number of watches collected so thank you SO much to all of you who provided. God is doing great work through these people! Well I need to get some sleep so I can be awake tomorrow...it's going to be Christmas Eve and it's 90 degrees...weird : )