Wednesday Morning

It  rained during the night and early this morning.  Praying that the rain stops so the medical clinics at La Gracia and Santa Elena will be more manageable, and the dirt road to La Gracia will be passable.  At moat clinics the people must wait outside the small churches where the doctors and the pharmacy are set up.  The rain will also hinder the work at the construction site. One more good day and the walls will be up seven courses of block all the way around.

The clinic at Santa Elena will be held on the completed first floor of the school, while the construction team is working upstairs.  One more load of concrete blocks are coming tis morning, so we will need to get them up on the second floor before the afternoon clinic.

Heman, the BTC caretaker, took several on a tarantula hunt on the grounds here last night.  The kids were excited, and Stacey Unks we especially looking forward to the hunt.  She was dressed for the occasion in her homemade tarantula-proof outfit.  No word yet on the results of the hunt, but no screams were heard throughout the camp last night.

Also last night, some of the medical team went to Kings Childrens Home to do well checks on the children there.  There are usually 50 children at the home.  Over the years our teams have done these well checks and painted and done other construction projects at the home.  A new more spacious building is under construction outside of Belmopan that will greatly relieve the overcrowding at the KCH.

Pray for a dry day here in Belize. We are hearing reports of cold temperatures at home, the possibility of a wintry mix on Friday, and cold temperatures for Saturday night when we return home.  Meanwhile, the 80s continue here.

Thanks for your continued prayers. Pictures may be able to come later, but I had better post this while the Internet connection holds.

Here are 2 pictures from the construction site:

The walls are going up. 

Brian and Henry's wall