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A Broken Nose and the Power of Prayer

Well, it has been exactly a week since I have arrived back at Hospital Loma de Luz after my 5 week long support raising trip. I have officially survived the week. It has been an eventful one to say the least. It started with my arrival at my cozy apartment that smelled of horrible, eye watering, stomach churning, rotting chicken which took three days to clean out. Then, the power being out in the middle of the night resulted in me breaking my nose by running into the concrete corner wall in my bathroom when responding to a "Code Blue". And today I am sick in bed with some sort of stomach bug. Normally I would say that I would take a cold over the stomach bug any day but the fact that it is quite painful to blow my poor nose, this one time I am thankful that it is the stomach bug. God is indeed good!  Yesterday was having lunch with some other fellow missionaries at our founding surgeon's family's house when the topic of our conversation changed to our crazy travel st