Good News

Thank God our car is running fine (although there is that one noise...). Our missionary friends Tommy and Marilyn from Texas are going to buy it!



Doña Dorotea has seen a general surgeon about eventually getting treatment for her skin cancer. On the same day we discovered two other ladies with skin cancer at Casa Maria! I excised one, and the other one (on the lady's nose) will be managed by a plastic surgeon which will be handled through the wonderful private Catholic charity hospital here in Antigua, Hermano Pedro.

Julia, the elderly lady who needs the hip revision, will hopefully see a visiting American orthopedic surgeon in the next few weeks.



Also, thank God the little premie twins, Antonio and Ariceli, are thriving under the wonderful care of their loving extended family. And thanks also for the donated formula which was a timely gift that arrived with the Canadian team. This family was so kind in having a few of us SI staff over for a wonderful lunch of the most delicious pepian I have tasted yet! (Pepian is a kind of sauce or stew, a--or should I say the--Guatemalan specialty, especially in Magdalena. It has dozens of ingredients and takes an immense amount of work to make. This was one of those humbling "missionary moments" where you just really feel blessed.)

Justin has finished his time with me. It's been fun to be a friend and mentor over the past few weeks. I've enjoyed that part of my role here quite a bit.

This being our last week here, we have enough going on to "keep us busy"... but I'll save my ramblings on that for another time! I'm pretty sure I will be able to get Tori to do the next blog entry, which will be refreshing for us all. We are having a great time getting together with our new friends here.

We're doing fine without our turtles, but miss our cat Louie and our dog Charlie back home! It sounds like they are being cared for so well they may not want to come home! But we miss all our friends more.

Thank you all so much for your prayers. God is listening!