7 days and counting...

We have officially made it to our last week in Guatemala. Throughout the last few days we have experienced so many emotions I don't really know how I'm going to make another week. Today was by far the hardest as we found out the granddaughter of one of our workers died this morning. She was only 20 months old and from what we've been told it sounds like she died of diarrhea and dehydration - which we knew absolutely nothing about until today. As you can probably imagine this has been very difficult for us to process and accept. How does a baby girl become so sick that she dies without anyone having any warning? And how in the world did her grandfather who works with an organization whose main mission is to prevent things like this, not see the signs and tell one of us about it before it was too late?

In the midst of this sadness we have also experienced a lot of joy this week. We currently have an amazing short-term mission team from Wisconsin here serving their butts off for the people of Yalu. They have been conducting a medical/spiritual clinic, building stoves and bathrooms, having Vacation Bible Schools, washing the feet of women in our women's ministry, washing lice from the hair of 100 kids from the village, and much much more.
The emotional extremes of the last week seem to have sped up our grieving process for leaving Guatemala. We would really appreciate your prayers as we spend the next week saying goodbye to our dear friends and our life in Guatemala. Gracias!