Celebration in Chocola

On Saturday afternoon we were invited to a celebration in Chocola.  Many people who have a history with Health Talents Internation, will remember that name.  This is the community were HTI started doing surgeries, many years before the land was purchased in Montellano. I have heard stories for many years!

Today. we were invited to celebrated the 3rd birthday of Sergio.  Sergio is the grandson of our Rigoberto.  Rigoberto has been associated with HTI for many years. For many years he cleaned the surgical rooms and now he is responsible for the hotel, that houses the volunteers that come down on surgical trips.

Luis, who leads the ABC program in this area and his wife, Evelyn picked me up at 1pm so we would arrive at 2pm. We arrived a little so they could get everything connected but then they announced we would start later..........yes, we are on Guatemalan time.

Luis started the celebration and thanked everyone for attending.

 

Baldemar talked about the importance of the family and it was a very good lesson.

 

Milton, one of our new employees, led some singing.

 

Rigo thanks everyone for attending and how much it means to his family.

 

 Elmer, one of our evangelists, prayed for young Sergio and his family.

 

It was time to celebrate Serio's 3rd birthday.

 

 

We went outside and there were two piñatas.

 

 

Luis got the action going with Segio.

 

 

No birthday celebration is complete without a birthday cake.  In this case, it needed to be several since there were about 60 people present.

It was a fun evening and it was nice to learn a little more about Chocola.