Thoughts of the AMA - There is a certain flow of mission events. Little distinguishes one week from the next. The tasks are a lot the same, we mostly see the same people, but from time to time distinct things happen. We saw Mark and Lafaunda Curtis leave and Terry and Sharon Smith replace them. We had a nice farewell party for Curtises. I received word that Dr. Steve Terry, with whom I attended medical school and worked with my entire career, died of a heart attack months before he was going to retire. On a positive note, we met with a humanitarian group from Utah, Idaho and Washington doing free dental work here who brought us down 5 duffel bags full of new born baby and hygiene kits for distribution. Two of our mission president's wives took a 100 and 150 for hospitals in their areas. The dental group left the dentists here their left over supplies. We were invited to a mission presidents' conference and were introduced to all the mission presidents in Central American. We had a chance to talk to the remaining president we hadn't met. We were planning to go visit him and his wife and train the mission nurse. His mission headquarters is about six hours away and the mission nurse was transferred way north and east, toward Tikal, so we are trying to figure out a way to visit and train without spending a week traveling. Patsy has pretty much mastered the keyboard at our El Cerinal branch. At first if she turned the volume up, a back beat of drums kicked in. We just wanted to have them sing, not march, so she had to fiddle with the controls a little. Morris continues to have interesting medical problems. A couple of sisters came down with multiple identical parasites. I asked the mission nurse to quiz them about hand washing, and where they were eating, and she found out they'd been eating street food. I ordered them flogged. A mission is hard enough without doing stupid stuff. After not taking anyone home for reasons of mental instability for awhile, it looks like I'll have another one this week, but only to Honduras, so over and back the same day. I am looking for a way to turn these trips into a mini vacation, but haven't figured it out yet.
El Cerinal doesn't have a lot of named streets, so if you construct something,
you have a good chance of getting the street named after your building
In the US, bikers drink Gatorade and such. Down here they do things a little differently.
The way the people driving cars treat the pedestrians and bikers, it's probably a good idea
to do something to relax before a bike ride.
Some of the future missionaries at our branch
Moving the livestock somewhere - horses, cows and the wranglers
sitting on a canvas platform above the truck bed. Seatbelts
are only a suggestion here.
Roadside pineapple stands on the way back from
church. Since it's Sunday, we have to just keep driving
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