On The Road Again!

Today it's 102 degrees, and we were told that tomorrow it will be hot...we aren't sure what defines hot.

This marks the last day of our work at Holy Cross Clinic with Dr. Elry and Liz.  Having to leave this inviting family is a difficult one to do no matter how many times we come to Guatemala.  In order for us to reach out to as many Guatemalan people as possible, this is something that we must do.  We climbed aboard the bus and off we went to pick up our additional teammates from the Crown Plaza.

We had a restful and yet interesting travel day today. The three amigos (Kayci, John, and Phil) arrived this morning and joined the two week crew. We drove from Guatemala City to Zacapa by air conditioned bus. We made a stop at Pollo Campero (Guatemala's KFC).  While we enroute to Zacapa, we had a slight delay, maybe of a whole 5 minutes, due to a semi trailer that had tipped over because of the grade of the terrain despite the sign notifying them to "proceed with caution".

While we were our way, we met up with a group of missionaries from Concordia University Nebraska while we were stopped at the "bodega" for some basic cleaning supplies. This group also included Grace Hughey, the wife of Steve (the director of CALMS). It was fun to see and chat with another group of missionaries from Concordia.

When we arrived at our hotel, a group of missionaries that were packing up donated many of their extra medications to our group. We were so excited and blessed to receive these extra medications, as we were going to make a trip to the Farmacia to stock up for this second week. Many of the medications were for pediatric patients (which will be our main focus this second week).

We ate really well today! John and many others are looking forward to the wonderful meals provided to us this week.

It has been decreed that the new official beer of this and future trips has changed from Gallo to Moza. Uno remains as the official game. Tonight's winners were: Kayci, Jeremy, and John. Ernie has still not won a game.

We are going to head to our rooms so that we can get a good nights rest in order for us to provide the best care to the people of La Majada.

Good Night and keep an eye out for our experiences from tomorrow!  God Bless!