Last Few Days

Thursday, Heidi and Isaac went to clinic at ASELSI and Matt and Roy went to Guatemala City to do some showing around and to pick up our friends, Dr. Louis and Victoria de Pena. Since we've been having to turn away some patients at ASELSI (it has become a very popular clinic - more patients come than we can possibly see), we decided to have an overflow clinic on Friday, which Dr. Louis helped with.

Saturday, we were out to Canilla with the de Penas and Roy Simmons. One memorable patient was a little girl about a year and a half old whose mother accidently spilled some boiling rice milk on. She had some pretty ugly burns on her face, neck, and trunk, but with treatment, she shouldn't scar too badly. Matt, having recently been burned himself (last March), can really empathize with her. The mother is in the local church and asked us if we would pray with her before she left.

Also, on Saturday, we had a woman accept Christ in the clinic.

Saturday afternoon, Matt, Roy, and Duane took a short flight around to do some sight-seeing. Roy's construction team built a school in Uspantan a few years ago. It's at least a two hour drive from Canilla, but a five minute flight!!! So we flew over and looked at the school, and also checked out a beautiful lake just outside Coban.

Sunday, Duane flew the de Penas back to Guatemala City and Roy headed back to Chichi to go to the American church there before heading down to Antigua to start a month of language school. He'll be back on the weekends, but will be studying hard during the week.

One of our translators in San Andres, Rosa, turns 18 today, so we celebrated with some tres leches cake. Her sister, our other translator, told Matt that all of her cousins and friends are waiting for her at home with buckets of water - the traditional birthday prize! Luckily, her dad makes the traditional skirts, so she'll have something dry to wear!

Tomorrow is clinic at Chicabracan. Our American friend, Toby, is planning on coming over so we can take the fire gear we brought down to the firehouse. (Toby is a volunteer firefighter here.) We'll try to have some pictures then.

Here's one of Isaac at clinic on Friday...