Friday, November 03, 2006

Gifts from Los Estados Unidos!

Matt's mom and dad arrived in Guatemala yesterday from Michigan for a 12 day visit and brought lots of goodies! We like goodies!!!

First, they brought an order from Blessing.org, a wonderful organization that serves medical missionaries all over the world by providing bulk medicines at very low cost.

Second, they brought tons of over-the-counter meds collected by their church family in Temperance, Michigan. We're hoping to visit there in December when we're back in the States for Christmas. Included in that delivery was over 1600 diabetes test strips, which are not only difficult to get here, they are frighteningly expensive. Oh, and lots of hotel goodies, such as moisturizing cream, which is also very expensive here and very much needed in some of our more remote locations.

And, of course, being parents, they brought other goodies, too. We were in need of a drill and some assorted home improvement tools and, since Halloween just passed, candy. You can't find peanut M&Ms here...

Anyway, the next few pics are of us opening presents and happily restocking our pharmacy. And you can see that all of the excitement wore Jake COMPLETELY out. Poor thing!





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