May 20, 2009

Hola everyone, I am learning this blog thing so please be patient! Things have been crazy for me lately. Someone in my family has been very ill so I have been delayed in returning to Guatemala. I'm working on getting down there next week but am not 100% sure yet if that is going to happen.

Great things have been happening both here in the U.S. and in Guatemala. I am told that the clinic had a Mother's Day get together. 120 women attended and 20 accepted Christ! Men's programs are also being held.

Up here I have been working on several projects. One is with Faith Comes by Hearing. They have a gizmo called The Proclaimer. This is a speaker with a computer chip in it with the entire New Testament spoken by professional actors. It has music and sound effects and is really fun to listen to. Each speaker can reach several hundred people. I received 6 of them for free in the Katchiquel Central language that is spoken by the people in our villages. I also received MP3s in English, Spanish and Katchiquel Central. I'm very excited to get these down to Guatemala so that Bible studies can be started in each village.

Also, some NVI Spanish study Bibles have been donated to the church in Antigua and I will be bringing those down as well.

I have a CD player for one of our Spanish speaking workers who cannot afford one so she can listen to her New Testament CD.

I also have an old radar scanner for my right hand man, Darvy, so he can help me run all my errands without racking up those speeding tickets in the city! (Relax, they are legal down there, maybe. Well, at least I don't know that they are illegal). It's very hard not to get a speeding ticket there because the new transit police have cameras hidden on the side of the road. You can only find out if you have a ticket by looking on-line at a web site and if your license plate is on there they'll tell you how much you owe. Hmmm, wonder if they are accurate or not? So far I don't have any but then again I don't drive into Guatemala City very often.

Well, that's my update for now. Hope to update from Guatemala very soon.

All God's blessings,
Terri