Evelyn's Baskets of Love and Life

The day was full of unexpected problems but everything turned out ok. I went to get the suk from Lisa and Kemmel's and when I was about 5 minutes down the road, it just stopped. I mean stopped! Lucky for me, the suk is light weight and I was able to push it off the road.

I thought it might be out of gas so I got a ride to the gas station and returned with a liter of gas but that was not the problem. Juan and Gaspar got a ride from a micro-van and came to my rescue. We went to the garage of a mechanic that Kemmel uses. He was not there but he sent someone to help us.

He told us that we needed a part but was not sure where they sold it. He was able to get the suk started again so we drove to Quiche looking for this part. Gaspar protected the suk while Juan and I walked to 5-6 different auto-part stores........but no one sold this part. They only sold Toyota and Mitsubishi parts.

We drove back to the clinic and had our class, as we had originally set out to do this morning. After all this had happened, I felt like the class should have been yesterday.

But all ended up ok......we covered the material Lisa had prepared for us, prepared material for our class on Tuesday and got the suk back to the house.

Tonight was a planned dinner with Jane and Joe from Winston Salem, NC. They started the Evelyn's Basket of Live and Life a few years ago when their first granddaughter was born with a cleft lip and palate. Jane provides us with baskets and specialty bottles for the babies so they can receive proper nourishment until they are old enough for their surgery.

Lisa and Kemmel would have had dinner with us tonight but had to make a quick trip to The City to get a computer cord from Rick. It sounds as if the surgical week at the coast is off to a difficult start. One group of people missed a connecting flight in Houston due to problems and those that had arrived to Guatemala had difficulty reaching the clinic due to flooding.

Jane and Joe are on the right and on the left is Cathy. Cathy works with ASELSI and is also very involved with helping parents arrange surgery for their babies.

After dinner, it felt good to be in for the night and to also know that everything is all right on this end. We pray for the safe arrival of those that are still in Houston and those traveling to Clinica Ezell.