Exciting day..................

Today was a good day with some exciting things happening.

As I have mentioned before, as well as Lisa and Kemmel, Gaspar will be changing his role at the clinic. He will now be working more in an evangelist role, starting next month. So, Kemmel needed to decide on hiring a new health promoter and I think we all agreed on who would be a great employee.

Today, Kemmel and Lisa talked to Enrique from Panajaxit. I was telling Lisa today about the first time I remember meeting Enrique. It was when Josefina and I started that clinic in 2007. We had been invited to a community meeting to see if there was enough interest for us to return on a regular basis. All of a sudden there was some commotion and we did not undertand all of it because most of it was in K'iche'. It made me a little nervous because the building was packed, with standing room only.

They finally told us that the community really wanted us to have a clinic every week. They took a vote and everyone's hand went up! Then they started applauding.......it was one of those moments that you just don't forget. Since that day, Enrique has been very helpful in the clinics. He prays with all of the patients and is very interested in them. He attends all of the monthly classes that Lisa does in Lemoa and I think he will be a great asset to us.

This afternoon we went to a new community called Chicwa. Kemmel, Lisa, Juan and I went to visit a patient that lives there and she wants to open her home to us to have a clinic. We will go on Saturday and see what happens after that. Her home is right off of the main highway and Chiwa is heavly populated. We are very thankful to Alisa and her family for opening their home to us. We pray that God will bless them and wonderful things will take place because of this new clinic.