February 13

This “final” entry is one day late.  Plans were to post it on Friday morning, 2/12, after hearing that everyone had gotten home safely.  You know the old saying about “rats & people and their best plans?”  Well, that applied here too.  We were without internet from late Thursday night until Friday morning.  Yes, I have been home all day today but just simply have not taken the time to post.  My apologies.

This team built twenty houses which included doing the concrete work in seventeen of those houses.  Our plans were to do concrete in all twenty but the locals beat us to the punch on three of them.  Twenty houses built is not amazing but when one considers that our building team topped out at nineteen folks then it is not bad either.

I am told that our medical team saw over eleven hundred folks and the dental team saw another six hundred folks.  (These are guesstimates and not intended to be hard and fast numbers)  I do know that they made a huge difference in many lives.  By the way, our medical team encounter no Zika virus at all.

The absolute best part of this trip was seeing nine folks pray to receive Jesus as their personal Savior with four of those being team members.  What an incredible move of God last Sunday in that worship service.  To Him be the glory!

One of our female team members mentioned during our final share time that there was no drama on this team.  I concur.  What a great group with even greater attitudes.  I do not know if it could have been any better.

Thank you to each person who prayed, gave financially, made blankets, quilts, et cetera.  This team was made up of a whole lot more than the forty three folks who were actually in Guatemala.  God is good!