Saturday, May 10, 2014

Wrapping Up and Winding Down


 Well, here we are at the airport to head home after a fantastic week!  Yesterday morning we were able to discharge our last two patients from the hospital before flying out to meet up again with my dear friends the Fickers (http://adonaiinternationalministries.blogspot.com) in Canillá, El Quiché, Guatemala by small plane.  If only every morning we went in to round at the hospital our patients were taking in a bit of sunshine on the balcony like sweet Maria was that morning!  Love this picture…


Please continue to pray for healing as these last two patients especially recover from tough abdominal incisions at home.  Their names are Maria and Sebastiana.  Sylvia somehow managed to talk Sebastiana in to giving us a picture of her beautiful (somewhat toothless) smile on the last day—those of you who have any experience photographing Mayan women know that is quite the feat!  Dr. Sylvia used her own beautiful smile, though, to convince her to flash hers long enough to capture it…

Then out at the Fickers it was time for spiritual sanctuary, catching up with my “family”, making new friends, learning new prayer requests, and seeing the amazing things that God is doing is down here right now!  Here are some new shots from the nursing/English/pre-med school and the Fickers’s farm and clinic area also.  What a nice time of spiritual and physical renewal and rest before traveling home today. 

We look forward to the next trip!  Thank you all for following along and continuing to pray with us…

Girls' selfie in the plane:


Walking out to the new house, which will be ready to move in to soon!


The inside of the new house!  Beautiful work, guys!


At the school, the Mission and Vision Statements (obviously, this was in the English classroom!)


The computer lab… Might not look too impressive by North American standards, but trust us when we say that it rocks the worlds of the Guatemalan education system!


The entrance to the school… Love this!


The front of the Ficker property, taken from the back...


Walking out to clinic… 


Adrienne checking in patiently waiting patients this morning...


Anna checking and recording blood pressures and glucose measurements on prenatal patients this morning before we flew out.  We managed to see maybe 2/3 of the pregnant patients before we left, I hope...


A view of the clinic entry way wall:



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