Thursday we went to ASELSI. It wasn't our day to do clinic there, but it was a chance for us to visit and hang out with a team a little bit without having to see a whole room full of patients. Plus, there's always the market in Chichi.
Friday, Russell, Bethany, and Tye came in with a truckload of groceries for the team.
Friday night we drove over some pretty bad roads to get to Canilla. We hadn't been there too long when one of the Fickers' worker's wife came in pregnant, in labor, and pushing. Sherwood actually did the delivery and Areli got to watch him in action for the first time.
Then we got a call that a chicken bus was stuck on the road between Canilla and San Andres. So we took a tractor out there and spent almost four hours digging and pulling and finally got it out. After having been under a chicken bus and seeing how they're... um... maintained - my advice is to walk.
Saturday morning, Sherwood and Areli flew back to Guatemala City, the girls did clinic, the guys pulled another chicken bus out (lots of rain = lots of mud = lots of stuck people), and Duane dealt with some airplane paperwork issues in Guatemala City.
Saturday night, we had worship in Canilla (thanks, Craig) and the Woodlands Methodist Church team arrived at the dorm.
Sunday was clinic for the girls. Luckily, Craig drove them to clinic because somewhere in the slippery, muddy, rocky roads, they slid sideways into a big rock and ripped a sidewall out of a tire. Craig basically laid in a river of mud to change the tire. Fun, huh?
Tomorrow is our clinic in Chicabracan. Luckily, Russell is going to go to clinic with Heidi, so Matt and Bethany can stay home with Isaac and Tye. Isaac is getting to the age where he wants to be out and about, so being penned up in a pack-n-play for 4-6 hours during clinic isn't his idea of a good time.
Anyway, tons going on tonight (hence the terse entry) and we hope to have more time to write later...
1 comment:
I loved your selection of contrasting transportation photos -between smiling faces getting on Duane's plane and - pulling a chicken bus out of the mud with Duane's tractor. I guess he does have it covered.
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