Where'd Everybody Go?

Every morning since May 28 there have been people staying here in my apartment and in the mission house. Thursday morning when I got up, it was deathly quiet. Everyone had sneaked out in the middle of the night and left me all alone. :-) There will be one more team coming Sunday and then a respite until October.

For the last three or four weeks it has been truly "The Land of Eternal Spring" in Guatemala. There has been a break in the rain and the weather has been too beautiful for words.

Sometimes I wish FFBC were here with the Feed the Sheep Shop. The word has gotten out that if you go talk to Senora Luisa, she will give you money for food. Now I'm not talking about lots of money. I'm talking Q5, Q10, Q20....that's from less than $1 to $2.50. Maybe I should never have started it, but when a mother comes here with a baby in her arms and three or four more hanging on her skirts and says they are hungry, I can't turn them away. Maybe I'll just start my own Feed the Sheep Shop.

Luisa

Summertime and the living is not easy, but it is fun

Summer is more than half over and I still don't know where the first half went. Summer for me is the end of May until mid-August. By the time the year is over, there will have been 21 teams that have come to the mission house for a week and have gone out to build houses, hold medical and dental clinics, pass out food to families, hold block parties, do evangalistic work, get sick, climb volcanos, overeat, make new friends, share their hearts, listen to some good singing and preaching, and a host of other things. A lot of them come here as strangers to me and leave as friends. Some of them I get closer to than others and it is hard to see them go.

It has been a while since I wrote an update on Berto. Someone left money here for him and his family for food and other needs. It is to be doled out to them weekly rather than giving it to them all at once. Last week I went to take it to them and every time I go my heart nearly breaks. They have absolutely nothing, and are always so grateful for anything they receive. He is in the bed most of the time now and Vilma cannot work because of needing to stay home to care for him. I have no idea how much longer he will live, but his main concern is what will happen to his family when he is gone. Please pray for him and his family.

Luisa