We spent Saturday in Antiqua with six other couples and had a fun day.  Here is a picture of the girls standing in front of a "chicken bus".  

They are very bright and colorful buses and you see them all around town.  The Guatemalans don't call them chicken buses though, I guess it is just the "nortaes", or North Americans that do.  There are chicken buses, tomato buses (because they are all red), and green city buses.  Oh, there are some really nice bright light green buses that are really long with that bendable area in the middle.  Buses are the main way people get around here.  We have been asked not to ride any of them.  The tomato buses have the reputation of one place here that you can be robbed or as least pick pocketed.

 

On Wednesday Dad was bequeathed the responsibility of being the Clinic Director here because Rick has just four weeks left and then will be heading home to Arizona.  Thus, the Captain hat and the hand piece around his neck.  He also got a thumb drive with all the Clinic info on it.  I guess that makes it official.  We don't like seeing Rick go because then there will be only two dentists here again.  Three is such a good number.

Driving home today from church we saw this motorcycle next to us.  Can you count how many people are on it??

Last week we had an afternoon of just missionaries from a mission here in Guatemala City, six of them.  This is a picture of one of the girls Dad and I helped, the dark haired one.   

She is from Mexico and has an interesting story.  She is 26 years old and is a Dentist!  She finished Dental school in Mexico and practiced for two years there, but felt she really wanted to serve a mission.  Her family is inactive and tried everything to discourage her from going, but she was determined.  Just before she went through the temple her family changed their minds and told her that she was doing the right thing.   She has been here about a year and had a toothache.  It was a wisdom tooth that was putting pressure on the tooth in front of it. She is also the Mission nurse, because she knows more about medicine than anyone else in her mission.  Her companion is from the States and has a Guatemalan mother. Two very mature, competent Sisters!

We have  a group of 15 future missionaries coming in tomorrow morning at 8:30 and the are the whole day's schedule.  They are traveling 4-5 hours to get here so we are really hoping that we can get them all finished, but have our doubts.  We kind of see that the kids that come from the furtherest away generally have more work to be done that the kids closer to the city.  Luckily we do have three dentists tomorrow, but we are going to be busy, busy.  That makes the day go faster though, right?

And one last picture for tonight.  

This is in a parking lot of a store called Pricesmart, very much like a Sam's club.  We call them sniper towers.  Yes, they do have a guard in each of them who watches over the parking lot with gun in hand.  In this particular area there were two towers.  I just can't imagine this in Cache Valley.

Love to all,   MOM, Shaun, Grammy