We arrived back in Guatemala City on last Friday night and got to meet up with the incoming surgical team on Saturday. We made it to Montellano (where it's hot!) that evening and enjoyed seeing several friends from previous trips. We even got the meet the mother (Carol Fitzgerald) of some friends of ours from our Amarillo days--Jill and Michael Voss. It was good to catch up on their lives even if it was second hand.
Our surgery week was busy with gynecology and general surgery patients. We had a good turn out and no complications, thankfully. We were talking about how patients alway have such nice things to say and Rosario had mentioned that one patient told her that while standing at the gate waiting for his name to be called on the list so he could enter the beautiful grounds of the hospital, he thought heaven would be very much the same with children of God waiting to hear our names to enter paradise. That made everyone feel really good about the work being done.
Today we are back in Chichicastenango--YEA! It's always so good to be back. We headed out to Paxot II and had a good clinic day seeing several of our good friends out there. They are such a warm and hospitable crowd--they made us feel very welcome again. One of the young women from Paxot came in with her mother-in-law because she wanted a pregnancy test. This was a nervous moment for her because they have been married 4 years and have only had one child who died and one miscarriage. When we gave them the positive result everyone, including me and Mauri, our health promoter were crying for joy for her. Please pray that she is able to carry to term and keep this child who means so much to them.
Tonight we work on getting the rest of our bags unpacked and this house back to normal.
Good night and God bless
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