Pretty crazy how the 2 months we are here, the country is experiencing trouble from a volcano and tropical storm.
Don't worry.. I'm fine... our location is not experiencing any difficulty from this.

But many places and people in Guatemala are--we saw that for ourselves for the first time today. We drove for about an hour to go to a place that really suffered from the tropical storm.. It's weird because when I heard "tropical storm" I didn't really flinch or think much would happen, because where I live---it's not that big of a deal... Yeah there's lots of rain, but the only major damage is by the coast.. anyway... this was completely different.

Mud was the major difference... I saw houses completely overtaken by mud.. lodo in Spanish.... We walked around ... well.. tried our best to walk around....but mud gets pretty tricky.. We saw people digging in the mud looking for clothes, and then trying the best they could to wash them... On our way in we would see random piles of "stuff" from a house along with a family... These were the people that had lost their home... they probably slept without a roof last nite..

We were in the bus driving to this one village... and as we rounded a curb we just saw a mass of people... Tons and tons of families... lots of kids... they were all gathered at the church.... The leaders were just making sure that the well that was built last year was still working.. it was.. hence why all the people were gathered... It was honestly like being on the set for one of those commercials you see on TV, asking you to support a child for a dollar a day.... except these kids were ten times cuter and I was looking at them through the window of the bus, not my television screen..

We passed out alot of food today... Once again, I wanted to do so much more... but without hope in Christ... it was hopeless and helpless..


So right now... all I can do is pray for them-- hope you will too.. and I am ready to pass out more food or clean up the mud or something thursday...