Cough or Avocado?

Yesterday we just finished up our marriage seminar. Everyone was so excited about having the new lesson to take back to their congregation. We want to thank Leo and Xiomara for their work and wish them well in the seminar they are giving in the Clinica Ezell area tomorrow and Saturday.

We ended the day with K'iche' lessons and a worship service with our American friends. We even enjoyed some acappella singing when the sound system went down! It was good to sing in English.

Our language class is pretty fun. Last night we focused on the alphabet and some medical words.

Interestingly enough, the word for cough is the same word for avocado (just different context). So when I ask my patients if they have a cough, I can follow that with "do you have an avocado, by chance?"

The weather here has been rainy until today, in fact one of our teams is stuck in the mud and after trying to get it out with one of the other trucks and also a large cargo truck, it is still stuck in the mud. We have ended up having to leave it overnight so that we can bring in a tow truck tomorrow morning to lift it out. The truck is pretty wedged into the mud now after trying to drag it out - most of the front tires are buried. Good times.... Kemmel's new rubber boots will come in handy the second time already!!

We were glad to have a dry day today, but it was really cold, so now we are warming up the house with a good fire in the fireplace. We felt a little bad that we were enjoying our fire while some of our team were trying to get the truck out of the mud; however, there would not have been much else we could have helped with and we are over 1 hour away from the location and no reason to have 3 trucks out there.

Hope everyone has a quiet night. Chat worok, John Boy. (Good night, John Boy.)