More devestation due to Agatha

Gaspar left at 0500 for Quiche in hopes of being able to sell in the market. I know he is concerned because he has not been able to work in the fields due to the heavy rains, he has not been able to sell in market and now his family does not have any water.

We left Paxot this morning for Patzite. We had a nice, packed truck with 6 people......the closer the better and even better yet is not being able to shower :):):)

As we tried to find a way to Patzite, the road was closed. We tried another road but was told that it was closed farther down the road. Manuel and I had walked down the road to see how bad it was......and it was bad. I heard my name being called as we were walking and we met some of the members of the church from Mactzul I. They told us that their house had collapsed and they had lost everything but were happy to be alive. The road was totally washed away with water pouring over the mountain.

We walked back to the truck and realized we had to drive to Quiche to make it to Patzite.

Manuel and I talked about things we had heard and about the funerals there have been. Manuel said they had recovered 6 bodies last night but I am not sure where it was.

We saw 21 medical patients and 12 dental patients in Patzite.

Andrea and Amy checking heart tones.

The group in front of the church building in Patzite...........Garrett, Andrea, Amy and Kate.

On the way home, we stopped by Tomas' house. The other night when the rains were so hard, he felt the ground shake and heard his neighbors screaming...........their home had been washed down the mountain. Thanks be to God that everyone was able to be got before it happened.

Tomas' wife, Juana, asked me to come and look over the mountain. We hiked down, down and down to a clearing..........here is Manuel is looking at what use to be a road in Mactzul V.

This is looking in the other direction were a road was just washed away.

As we drove back to Chichi, we passed through Sepela. I had heard how bad Sepela was but until I saw it............I just did not understand.

Now, in December we had our ABC Celebration here with over 900 people. Today, people were only dragging off fallen trees for fire wood and dealing with what has occurred in the last week.

This is a photo of where there had been some soccer fields.

By looking at the gazebo, you can see how many feet of mud has covered the park and fields.

I do not know if these basketball rims are at the the 10 feet they should be but you can still get an idea of how much mud and dirt has been washed up from the stream.

This is usually a small stream. It is usually no bigger than what is on the right side but you can see that at one time it had grown to five times it size. Now, there is some dry land in the middle but see how far out of each bank that it had grown to.

It was almost dark when I arrived back to Martina's. I had bought some water for them and some beef since the stores had sold out of many things.

Only the girls were at home and it felt nice to sit outside. The girls sat with me and we just played with a doll and then started singing. They brought me one of their song books and I knew some of the songs.

Martina arrived late and then fixed our dinner. The youngest girls did not want to eat so they wrapped themselves up by the fire and fell asleep. Alejandro ate and then fell asleep in his chair.

It was time to go to bed and pray for a night of no rain.