Sister Olga has been in the Hospital for 2 weeks. She fell to the bottom of her full length stairs. Every home has stairs. She hurt her shoulder and foot, but no broken bones, a real miracle.
We were going over every other day to visit and help out, then got colds and had to stop. This last week. The Sisters and Elders have been dropping in. We thought the Hospital was not as we would hope, but Elder Morgan told us it was the cleanest hospital he had been in. In the hospitals here the family is to care for the patient, not the hospital. The hospital does not furnish any soap, personal care items, or clothes. That is all to be done by the family. The nurses only attend to medicines and medical needs. The family is to take care of all other problems.
I was a little taken back by the process , but as we observed, it may be the better way. The only draw backs are for those without family. We were told about an accident that happened and the victim was from out of town so they were without family, & no one to care for them. They finally were able to call the church on the third day in the hospital and get a blessing and some help. They were too weak before that time.
Back to Olga, she went home yesterday!! Because of the visits and the fact that there are 5 other patients in the same room, the Sisters got to share their testimonies and do some teaching with the other patients.
One of the English students works at the hospital, when she heard they were going to visit Sister Olga, she asked them to call her when they were in the hospital.
Graziela, the student, came down and introduced the sisters to all her co-workers.( They felt like it was the whole hospital, and Graziela introduced them as her 'Friends'!) The night before, Wednesday night, the missionaries had shown the movie about Joseph Smith and Graziela was telling all the co-workers about the movie and that we 'do' believe in Jesus Christ and we are not Jehovah Witnesses. There is a large Jehovah Witness Church here and we are very often mistaken for Jehovah's Witnesses.
All in all the Sisters were very well pleased!
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