Friday, February 23, 2018

Good Things

Our week has been filled with mobile clinics in the communities, home visits with the ABC families and the usual  administration and maintenance of equipment and vehicles issues.  Sometimes we feel like our days all look about the same. But every now and then we get a little extra good thrown in.

We enjoyed a birthday party for Maury's baby, getting there late and thinking everyone had left--but turned out it was taking place across town and we showed up just as her mom was looking for a ride to the party with all of the snacks in tow--good timing!

Kemmel has been busy getting ABC kid charts and data updated for the coming teams to do well-child checkups, working on dental equipment repairs and tracking down new tires for one of the trucks--the last two had to be taken care of in the Guatemala City 3-4 hours away. But at least he enjoyed a quick swim at the Olympic-sized pool there.

I was chatting with one of the moms from a church where we have the ABC program.  She was relaying some dental problems she had and lamenting the fact that she never brushed her teeth much when she was younger.  She said, "not until you all came and showed us how important brushing is, did I start taking care of my teeth.  Now I make my kids do it whether they want to or not!"
That made our day!

Here are a few shots from the rest of our week.


You can't see this little girl's backpack well --I couldn't get my camera out fast enough,  but it made me smile because it has Doc McStuffins on it.  :)  

I love this picture of Danny Suy and his little boy Daniel celebrating his first birthday.  Look at their facial expressions, LOL!


And finally an action shot of our student Melanie Dixon and her helper Tomasa Sut Marroquin out making home visits in the Chuchuca, Zacualpa area.  What troopers!

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