Beach Week!

As you can tell, our posting will probably be a little less frequent for a bit now.

Matt and Martin spent a few days in Houston, each taking care of some personal business. Martin actually spent a day working on the 4Runner, changing out some things that we knew were ready for that.

Thank God he suggested that we change our water pump and timing belt. Even though the truck only has about 67,000 miles, the timing belt was not going to last much longer! But there's a new one on there now and we're good to go.

Wednesday evening, we loaded up a Penske truck with Matt and Heidi's stuff and a bit of Natalie Shaw's stuff and headed out. We got as far as Baton Rouge and spent the night. In the morning, we resumed our drive. By dinner time we were in Greenville, SC to drop Natalie's stuff. By 10pm we were in Salisbury at Heidi's dad's house.

The next morning, we grabbed some breakfast, unloaded, returned the truck, then got Martin to the airport for his flight to Providence where he's picking up a truck and a couple dirt bikes.

Then he's driving to Cincinnati to pick up another truck, then to St. Louis to get another dirtbike, then it's to Guatemala again (via Houston). He's got a grandbaby on the way, so he's interested in getting home.

Update: please keep Martin in your prayers. We got a call from someone this morning saying that they found his cell phone in a BP station in Ohio. Martin now has no way to get in touch with anyone, as most of his numbers are in that phone. He doesn't really speak much English and really hesitates to impose on anyone, so we're a little afraid he's just going to skip a necessary part of his trip to get back to Houston as to avoid asking for any help.

Anyway, we're now at the beach - at Heidi's aunt's beach house (the same one where we got married) in Atlantic Beach, NC - for the whole week.... Isaac is playing with about 10 or so of his cousins and having a ball!

We don't have our computer with us, so we can't post pictures, but we'll try to do that this weekend....

Also keep the Fickers in your prayers as Leslie and Hannah are probably alone in clinic in San Andres this morning with well over 100 patients outside the door...