Hello friends! Good day to all of you! From this chosen people of God, I greet you with a big hug and joy in my heart. I wish each and every one of you buddies and brothers in Christ and St. Daniel Comboni to be well physically and spiritually and enjoying the life that gives us our Father in heaven every day.
After my training in community experience as CLM, I find myself missioning in Chiapas. Here I am very well, working in the San Carlos Hospital. I am living a new missionary experience and starting this great mission that Christ is entrusting me among these indigenous peoples. The parish have 80 communities, but we attend more than a 100, walking up 15 hours or more to come to our Hospital of San Carlos, because sometimes, in other hospitals or health centers they do not want to attend because they do not understand them. We have six main dialects, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, Tzotzil, Ladino, chol, but the predominant are Tzeltal and Tzotzil.
It is a great missionary work and a great humanitarian work directed by the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Padua for over 30 years. They have a nursing school within the hospital and that is where we train the indigenous people as nurses. Then, they work in the hospital attending their own people. They are who translate us. Here, patients feel at home and family, and although they have to pay recovery fees, they prefer this hospital. By this, is being met what St. Daniel Comboni prophesied in his Plan “Save Indigenous with Indigenous”. My memories and prayer for everyone. We are united in our fellowship with our heart and our missionary spirit, love you all and wish you the best in your missionary life. Greetings and a hug to all.
Your little friend and sister: ISA. 😉
Thank you for your letter. Greetings. Fr. Arlindo.