The Leesburg/Pompano/Cornerstone group arrived in Guatemala
on Saturday without any problems! We
spent Saturday getting settled in to our hotel rooms and going over this weeks
details. Sunday was our excursion day in
the beautiful city of Antigua, Guatemala.
Monday was a GREAT DAY with all the children at the
Malnutrition Center. There are several
of us from the Leesburg/Cornerstone groups that have been here before so today
was a happy reunion with some sweet familiar faces! Tara Carroll from the Leesburg group was here
last year and couldn’t believe how much progress Marvin has made in the
canaries! Last year, he was a tiny 4
month old and weighed only 7 pounds! Today he is a chunky little guy who is
trying to walk by himself! He still has his great personality and loves to
smile, laugh, dance and play! It’s
AMAZING to see the progress these sweet children can make from being at the
center.
The teenagers on this trip did an AWESOME JOB today!! Giselle from Pompano was nicknamed the “Baby
Tree” because when she sat down on the floor she was bombarded with about 4
crawling Canaries (the youngest group of children) all wanting to be held. The Lea brothers (Luke, Tommy, Joe) from the
Leesburg group were here last year and were familiar with the routines and
jumped right on in helping out… even changing diapers!!
The Chicks are POTTY TRAINING!!!!! Enough said about that!!
Darla Kell from the Cornerstone group led the staff women in
an afternoon devotion, which was translated by one of our fabulous translators-
Olivia! The staff workers are learning
Bible verses in Spanish AND English! AWESOME!!
Our Challenge for the week is to try to get Jeremiah to
smile! He is one of our new canaries. He is two and a half years old and weighs
only 13 pounds! He has already made
great progress in just one week! Today, I witnessed him eat TWO plates full of
food at lunchtime!! He is able to hold his spoon and feed himself. He’s all business when it comes to eating…
which makes us very happy, happy, happy!!!
Our construction crew is a father/son team that was here
last year with the Leesburg group. Scott
and David Carroll worked all day doing some serious sanding on new benches and
tables that were built to go into the Ducks and Squirrels room. Their goal is to get them sanded and painted
this week! One thing we learned tonight
in WOW time was that all the wood that was used to build these tables and
benches came from the trees on the Malnutrition Center property and were cut
into boards by Basilio (a staff worker) by using a chainsaw!! WOW!!!
Right before we left for the evening a new baby
arrived! She is a beautiful one month
old. We will find out more details about
her tomorrow.
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