Today was a full day for most of us here! A clinical day at the hospitals, teaching CPR to the traffic controllers, and then going to the temple!
Sotomayor, the maternity hospital, was busy with babies this morning! In the first hour of us being there, there were three babies born! The labor support given was much appreciated by the new mothers. It's amazing how grateful a person can be to have a blanket, a wet towel on their head, or someone pushing on their knees through contractions. We got to help a mother breastfeed her first baby ever. We also got to hold the babies in the nursery. Sarah, with her excellent Spanish skills, interviewed women in the postpartum room about their birth experience for a research project.
The hotel we're at has been so kind to us, and today they gave us little "Happy Nursing Day" cream puffs. YUM. Last night we had a pizza party, headed up by Allie, and they helped us order the pizza too. They have been good friends to us here...and we all LOVE the chocolates they give us on our beds.
We got to go to the temple again tonight, and it was great as expected! We all can agree that we love love love the temple workers here and their Spanglish! :) The Guayaquil Ecuador Temple has been very busy...70,000 baptisms so far this year! We left around 9 at night, and it was still busy in baptistry.
Everything is going pretty well here! We're sad that Debbie went home today, but we're glad she got to come!
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