Our New Home

Well, here we are in Guatemala. Thanks to many weeks of work by Russ, Bethany, and Carrie, the house now has high speed internet. What a life saver!!

Our first night in Guatemala was spent in Antigua with Savior´s Sons and Renew, men´s and women´s mission groups from Houston who were here a week before us. We were so fortunate to meet them and hear about their awesome week of service prior to our arrival.

The next morning, we came up the mountain to our new home and got settled in. On the way here we met with John and Sharon Harvey at ASELSI in Chichicanstenango. They have an awesome mission and we will be learning a lot from them about Guatemalan medicine. There are also some very exciting opportunities there for Heidi to do some OB work. We´ll see if that´s what God has in his plan for us.

When we got to the house to unpack, we found that we´re missing a few things from the pile of stuff we sent down, but it will all work out, we´re sure. Worst case is that we have to buy Heidi a lot more pants!!!

Today we met with the hospital staff here in Quiché and were presented with our first urgent need... for computers for the hospital. And in this case, they need NEW, state of the art, American computers. They have been directed by the government to install an electronic medical records system and the software they have to use only runs on new XP machines. Okay, we´ll work on that.

After our meeting with them, we drove to Canillá to meet with the Ficker Family. They also have an awesome mission working with severely underserved people in a remote region of Guatemala. In addition, they have taken in several Guatemalan children, one of whom was badly burned when she had a seizure and landed in the open flame her family cooked on inside their house. Her name is Martina. She has a variety of other medical problems, but is a very gentle and loving child. Leslie Ficker has several clinics and will be also helping Heidi learn about Guatemalan medicine in the next few months. Dwayne, her husband, is a pilot. The Lord has provided them with a twin engine plane which they will use to serve the people here as they are directed. They are building a hangar now and will be bringing the plane here from the US in a few months. How exciting!!!!

Anyway, this was supposed to be short, but we never are, so there you have it. Our first few days in Guatemala.

Thanks for stopping by and pray for the people of Guatemala, and for us that we might help them as God wants us to.