Madonna and John Spratt met us in Puerto Cortez this morning to help us connect with the government Health Center. This center will provide a “covering” for our visiting doctors as well as possibly provide us with the use of an occasional nurse in our clinic. This would be a great help. Madonna will continue to hold clinic once a month, but we are still hoping to have a standing clinic as much as possible. She also took us to the local post office. That was quite an eye opener. There is nothing like it in the states; very primitive. There we could sign up for a post office box. It does not cost much, but for anyone to get anything to us at that post office, they would have to pay for airmail which is costly. We would have to purchase our own lock and key at the hardware store and install it ourselves. For now, we put that on hold. They have a new food market in Puerto Cortes that Madonna introduced to us. Most of the time we have to go all the way to San Pedro for our groceries, but this will be a closer option. We treated them to lunch at a fish restaurant right on the water. (Puerto Cortes is on the Caribbean)
Madonna spent 30 years on the mission field in Africa and India before her 28 years here in Honduras. I am learning a lot from her.