Can You Believe It?

This is our 99th post. We'll probably make #100 either from Guatemala City or Houston. Wow, how time flies!

We got the awesome news that Bethany and Russ Leatherman (our bosses, in a manner of speaking) just had their baby yesterday! His name is Tye Leatherman and everybody is doing great. He doesn't know it yet, but he is the answer to about a zillion prayers!

We had our last clinic of the year this morning. Paul and Lindsey were there to help us. It's amazing how much help it is to have two more medical people (and native speakers) along. This will be our last clinic here in Quiché for the time being, too. Those who need further help have been referred to our other clinics. This was not a large clinic and we (along with God) are planning some new adventures in the coming year. We'll certainly keep you up to speed on those!

Paul and Lindsey, for those of you who don't know, are Guatemalan medical students that our organization is helping through medical school. They live here in Quiché but go to school in Quetzaltenango. Their school year basically follows the calendar year, so they are "off" this month and will cover a few clinics for us while we're gone. Thanks to our computer, we will have all of the clinic information at our fingertips when we come back, too. How neat!

Heidi is still sick as a dog. She can't sleep more than an hour at a time with all the coughing and congestion and nothing seems to help. Please pray for her to feel better for our trip home. Travelling is hard enough already without being sick on top of that.

We are just about done packing and will head to The City in the morning. Our calendar for the upcoming month is pretty full and we hope that many of you are on it! Our first few days are in Houston where we'll be meeting with our associates there, attending some churches, giving some presentations, hanging out with some friends, and Matt's even going to get a chance to play.

The next leg of the trip takes us to Ohio and Michigan to visit Matt's family. We'll attend a few more churches, give some more presentations, go to a Michigan State basketball game, and whip Heidi's brother Daryl in trivia.

The day after Christmas, we'll DRIVE with Daryl and his wife, Erin, to North Carolina for Christmas with Heidi's family. We'll meet some more friends there, give some more presentations, maybe go to a North Carolina basketball game and maybe a hockey game, too.

Then it's back to Houston and back to Guatemala where we'll meet the cleft palate families in Antigua for a few days of surgery. We promise lots of pictures from that trip!

Anyway, that's probably it from this end before we arrive in the U.S. Pray for us to have an uneventful trip (that's the best kind!)