Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Today is a little sad for us as we are not able to be with our families; however, we have much to be thankful for including a wonderful device called a cell phone. As a result, we were able to talk to our families today and enjoy some long distance fellowship. More than anything we are thankful to God our father for providing us with loving families and friends and for giving us the oppurtunity to be where we are now. We continue to know that this is where God wants us and we never have any second thoughts of whether or not we should be here, well minus Lisa's fiasco with the licensure thing. :)


We are thankful for so many people, experiences and things. We have been blessed with a wonderful congregation back home that we consider family, with wonderful congregations here in Guatemala that support us and pray for us regularly and with an intelligent and strong faithed staff who are our partners in the work we do here in Chichicastenango. So we want to thank all of you who check the blog as you are all faithful supporters in prayer and thoughts.


We are also thankful for things like computers and internet as they have provided us a means of communication that was not available for many missionaries in the past. We kid alot about all of the luxuries we have these days that were not available before, so our hats go off to all of those who have lived in 3rd world countries who have not had internet, cell phone, running water, electricity, etc. While what we have may not be active or available 100% of the time, at least it is available much of the time! Just the other day was the first day we have not had both running water and electricy at the same time. Although inconvinient we are glad this was a first.



Today we actually had to work, Lisa in her government clinic and Kemmel at Clinica Caris. Today provided another thing to be thankful for as today marked out ribbon cutting and first dental patient treatment in Clinica Caris. The first patient in the chair today for the grand event was Juan Chan Tevelan, an ABC child from Xepocol whose father, Pedro, is Gaspar's brother. Juan and his brother, Everaldo had 2 fillings each and then Marcos, the dentist, had a few more patients as well.

Check back tomorrow for some more info and pictures. We actually have some pictures to load but our internet service is giving us problems at this moment.

We have been pretty busy lately with the starting of the dental clinic and the new employee, Mauri, also with some of the clinics inceasing in patient load and in planning for 2008. Good things are happening and we have plenty to be thankful for. We have a great God who provides for all we need and provides us with the contentment we need to live a fullfilling life. What more can you ask for? God bless!