Texas hits Chutzurob

Pat and the group from Texas went to Chutzurob today and it was a true adventure. The team rode on the bus and we followed in the truck. The bus could not travel the last 0.5 mile so we loaded the truck a few times and eventually got everyone and all of the equipment where it needed to be.

As we were unloading and reloading, we started celebrating Irene's birthday. She and her husband, Steve, have been down for two years and are a big part of the team.

The members of the church had everything ready for us, as they usually do. The church building was divided into sections for medical and dental. It continues to be exciting to see a group of people so active in helping their community both physically and spiritually.

The team again had activities for the children......they colored, sang, acted out skits and painted t-shirts.

After the group activities, these boys wanted to continue to color while sitting in the road.

Ceaser lives in Chuchipaca but he has been a big help to us for two days. He helped us translate into K'iche', directed the flow of patients and even held babies as the mothers needed to be weighed.

We were able to make one house call today to see a young lady with a fever. We had one patient with significant high blood pressure. While he was waiting to see the effect of some medicine, the members of the church took the opportunity to pray with him and read some scriptures. He seemed very interested and possibly will visit with The Church on Sunday.

We had a total of 62 medical patients, 35 dental patients, 11 patients had dental fillings and 10 patients had dental cleaning.

Everyone had a safe return trip to Chichi and enjoyed dinner at the hotel.

Tomorrow, the Texas group will go to Xepocol and some of us will go to Mactzul III.