Today, the medical team and carnival traveled to San Marcos, a beautiful city overlooking Lake Atitlan. At San Marcos, we encountered several more difficult cases, which are nothing more than opportunities for God to use our team to bless those we encounter. The optic team saw several severe cataracts which they were not able to treat today, but names were taken and their cases will followed up. We also had a patient, a woman in here 50s with a large abdominal mass. She was extremely poor, living alone, and therefore was not able to afford a trip to a hospital. Today, we were able to raise the money from within our team to pay for her and a deacon of the local church to travel together to the nearest hospital this Friday for an examination. In total, we treated a little less than 200 people today.
The construction team finished the walls and roofs of both houses. We are prepared to lay the slab tomorrow morning. Hopefully, we will be able to have the dedication ceremony for the finished homes in the afternoon.
Our ministry did not end when we returned back to San Juan for dinner. Several of the younger guys from our team spent about half an hour being catapults and carnival rides for dozens of the local children. It was a blessing to all of us to see how much they enjoyed just that little bit of playing and amazing to see how all of the people here are so appreciative of even the smallest gesture.
Currently, the mother of Iised, one of friends and helpers from Venezuela is in transit from Guatamala to meet us in San Pedro. We appreciate your continued prayers for her safe arrival later tonight and for the futher demonstration of the love of Christ in Guatamala.
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