Diana's sister, Linda, visited Guatemala for two weeks in October. While she was here, we visited the Mayan ruins in Tecpan, the biggest mercado in Guatemala at Chichicastenango, and the west coast where there are black sand beaches and a very dangerous undertow.
We had a great time and it went by really fast! She even brought down a great many items that we need for Vacation Bible school this year, for which we are very thankful to her S.S. class and fellow workers at her Quaker workplace.
The roads around Guatemala are still quite dangerous.
They are planning to shut down the road for 2 or 3 months on the mountain road
that was hit so badly by mudslides during our rainy
season . That leaves the mountain road on the other side of Panajachel, which is barely passable, with a new walking suspension bridge over the chasm. In one place as we were coming back on that route, we saw 3 large rocks in the road that we supposed were caused by a slide and had we continued past them,and we could have, we would have fallen off the edge of the road into the river. By the grace of God, there was a truck in front of us that knew the way, so they went down this dirt path and through the river to the other side, so we followed them. A little scary, but these days in Guatemala, we are getting used to that, and that just causes us to trust in our sovereign Lord more.
