Matt Goes To India: 06/02/15

Hey Everybody,

I just got back from another long road trip and didn't have WiFi available... so here's an overview of the last few days.

Sunday was a nice day, we drove 2 hours to Chennai where we had church with the Chennai 1st Branch and I was pleasantly surprised. Although it was only a branch, there were maybe 60-70 members present and all of them were very well educated in the Gospel and gave some excellent talks and lessons. The Indian culture of education and hard work was definitely evident. That was great and then I just relaxed the rest of the day after we got back.

We left early Monday morning to a colony about 4 hours away and were able to see maybe 30-40 patients. We haven't seen this colony in over a year so they were really excited to see us and so grateful for what we were doing. We had to go up a steep road to set up our clinic and these patients who had really beat up feet and you could tell were in pain just moving around were helping us take tables/chairs up the road to set up the clinic. It was really awesome to see. After that we went and visited a big dam nearby and the gardens behind it... then we got set up in our hotel, had some dinner and went to bed.

Yesterday was really awesome, we got up early and went to another colony close by and helped 66 patients! It was a little crazier because some of the volunteers stayed behind to help with school (it started this week) so I was running between doing blood pressures, helping with the ulcer washing, and blood sugar testing... it was awesome! We finished up at the colony a little later but we went down and saw some waterfalls that were in a nearby government protected jungle. We got in these little saucer boat things and went down this river, I had so much fun. We headed home after that and got back at around 11:00 pm... and today we have another longer road trip planned. Hopefully I'll have WiFi, but if not know that I'm doing well and having a blast. Enjoy the pics/videos!