Guatemala 2009

This morning brought us some team members who were completely better, and a few more team members who weren’t feeling too good. Quite frankly, I feel like I’m walking through a mine field, dodging sick people right and left. So far the only thing I’ve experienced is a slight twinge of morning sickness [...]

What a joy to hear Dr. Ray calmly tell me this morning, “It appears that we have an internet connection now.” I gulped down the rest of my drink, wrapped up my conversation, and hurried out the door with my laptop so I could let you all know about our day yesterday.
The story starts [...]

Good News: I got to talk to my wife tonight!
Bad News: It costs $1 per minute to talk from here to there!
Good News: Most of them had a good day today.
Bad News: Some of them didn’t (see Dr. Ray’s previous post - and yes, Pastor Dave was one of the stricken ones, along with my [...]

Greetings all,
This is Bill Ray with a medical update.  While most of our group is feeling fine we have a few in the group with gastroenteritis, i.e. the stomach flu.  Pray that they will be feeling well soon.  (In fact, two are doing substantially better already…the rest, time will tell),  Please pray that all will [...]

This morning was very nice for our team, because those who were exhausted yesterday were able to join the rest of us in feeling refreshed and awake. I served a very simple breakfast of milk, cereal, toast and peanut-butter, as well as coffee and hot cocoa and instant oatmeal. Since we hadn’t yet [...]

Greetings from Nido del Aguila (Eagle’s Nest)!
Let me tell you about our day! It started with an amazing buffet breakfast in one of the restaurants in the motel. This buffet was filled with fruits and breads and Latino foods, and it was all so fancy and quite delicious. The second large room [...]

Since I’ve already written about the first half of our day yesterday, I won’t recap. Our story ended with us waiting for Bill Ray’s gang to come back from the bank while we waited in the lobby of our nice hotel.
When Bill and Don (his dad) and Daniel and Isaac returned, they had wide [...]

We had a very good travel day so far. The flights were on time, the weather was clear, and the transitions between flights went smoothly. When we arrived in Guatemala City, the bus from our motel was waiting nicely, and we loaded up and made the 5 minute drive to the motel.
Because we [...]

Last night around 10 pm the first half of the Guatemala team was reunited at the Holiday Inn in Rosemont. What a joy it was to see the Ray Family and Spencer coming down the hall. Now that our little group is together, we can start this leg of our journey.
Our motel is [...]