Something about Jim and Mary

It is true that the days have been whirlwind of activities and it is hard to capture the many unique and special moments.  Thus, I thought I would bullet some of these as follows:

-          Children laughing while helping us build their future home.  Carrying buckets of rock and water on their small shoulders

-          Broad smiles during clothing distribution

-          Young girls elated with their handsewn dolls

-          Packed auditorium awaiting for their wheel chair for themselves or their family members

-          Our volunteers working with individual families to size their wheelchairs

-          Parents holding their disabled loved one on their shoulders when they came to the auditorium and leaving with tears of joy as their loved one was settled into a custom fitted wheelchair

-          The second story of the warehouse being full of clothes and finding out that this would only provide clothes for the needy for 1 ½ months

-          Many of the workers in the warehouse were disabled themselves

-          Doing the shuffle with a group of children to compact the sand of the foundation of the home

-          Seeing the family in their new home with a fuel-efficient stove working outside their living space

-          Waving to a child who was peering out of their sparsely spaced bamboo slat walls of their house during a rain storm

-          Walking on a narrow muddy path to get to our build.  Kamikaze Karen did a few somersaults falls for us (LOL)

-          Male volunteer braiding a girl’s hair

-          Being packed like sardines in a car to get to a build site

-          Seeing busses and vans carrying people on the sides, back, and top of the vehicles

-          Listening to Indian Jones theme song as we drove to our sleep site….boy are those roads bumpy and full of  bus-sized potholes

-          Hugs, smiles and warm reception received from so many Guatemalans

-          So much more to say but time has escaped hubby and me.  Mary and Jim