Over the Rainbow

We've been in guanacaste now for three days, and I now know what Dorothy felt like in The Wizard of Oz! I've never felt such strong wind in my life. 

We are in a very high-altitude area, just adjacent to the Arenal Volcano. The wind is constantly moving here, so much so that I thought a hurricane or tornado might be coming. It makes an awful howling sound in our hotel. It's unseasonably cool here right now, and we've heard it's because it's so cold in the US. So instead of getting sun-burned, we are getting wind-burned. But God is still working.

We've held two vision clinics the past two days and have met with over 700. And there were only a handful that we could not get glasses to. There was one lady who was in her 80s. She had severe cataracts, and hadn't been able to see for quite awhile. I took her reading on a machine called the "sure shot," which is a machine that can read the exact prescription of the eye within 10 seconds. Her prescription was something like -9.99, .5, which is BAD (most were around a 
+\- 2)! We were really worried that we wouldn't be able to find what she needed, but fortunately we found something close, and suddenly she was able to read and see distance! The first thing she read was a teammate's shirt which was in English! It was a great experience, to see someone who hadn't seen in years be able to see world around her. 

The water project is moving along steadily. A few of us worked into the night tonight, so that we would be able to train the church members tomorrow morning. We've had some awesome welders, a man named George and one of our teammates Tierah.

Tomorrow will be our last day in this area, and then we will travel back to San Jose, hopefully making a stop to view the Pacific ocean. Hopefully the weather will be a little better once we get off this mountain, but it's been an awesome ride while we've been here!!!

Blessings! 

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