We found this little dog in a weird position. It was pretty hilarious!
We are giving a pila to this family next week. This is their sink now.
A cute table made with tires! We thought it was pretty awesome.
Kassara had a stomach ache while we were at the church one day. I turned the corner, and this is how I found her!
IT'S A MIRACLE! She isn't screaming when I hold her! I love this baby.
The Choc family picture! We love them.
Marta
Armando
Anna Banana
The parents!
We told them we wanted to see a beso! All of the kids were chanting "BESO! BESO! BESO! They are so shy! I was happy to capture the moment.
I was so proud of them for making ugly faces with me!
Kass and Angela!
Since we had very limited luggage space, due to all the supplies we were bringing here, Ashley and I each have only a few outfits to wear. Also, laundry never really completely dries here and it always stinks! It’s a constant mold smell! Needless to say we are getting sick and tired of our same boring,/ugly clothes…but, have no fear, we have come up with a brilliant solution. We have decided we will buy the nastiest 80’s clothes we can find (12 cents each) and wear them for the remainder of the trip. Why not right? We have no one to impress and no matter what we wear people here will just think it is the newest American fashion. So far we have found some real winners! I don’t know why anyone would get rid of this stuff. We will post pictures on the blog as we wear them! We are pretty excited about our finds. Here is the first find! Not actually hideous! This is Kassara's new favorite shirt!
We have decided to put together baskets of essentials to give to families. Each basket has rice, pasta, oatmeal, oil, soup mixes, cans of food, sugar, shampoo, soap, crayons, pencils, paper, dish soap, laundry soap, and much more. We know this is not a temporary fix to their problems but we are trying to do all we can to help while we are here.
We spent most of the day buying and sorting supplies for the baskets. Angela helped us and we got kind of crazy in the process, singing songs and dancing like crazy people. When we were finished it was pouring rain outside, and were stuck. We decided to have a pinterest hair and make-up party. It was so much fun. Angela had never seen pinterest before and now she is in love. All of our hair-dos turned out so cute! We need to do this more often.
Angela's Hair! Done by Ashley.
Kassara's Hair! Done by Ashley tambien!
My hair! Done by Kassara.
Another miracle!
At El Almacen! With Lydia and the other lady that always works at the comedor! We can never remember her name. It's something complicated.
Today while we were eating dinner two little boys with ragged clothes and no shoes came into the restaurant and sat at a table close to us. They had no money for food and were just watching us eat. I (kass) shared my food with the boys and bought each of them a bag of crackers. They spoke little Spanish but kept saying “gracious, gracious.” After eating, we watched the boys run outside to drink the rain water falling from the rain gutter. We told them to wait at the restaurant so we could give them a present for their family. We gave the boys one of the baskets and they were so excited! It is always so fun to watch the kids reactions when receiving gifts; we only wish we could have seen the moms reaction as well.
Another awesome outfit we found!
A very typical look here in Senahu! They do this all day long.
Cute outfits!
The only cute dog in town!
Today was a very eventful day! We went to Seriquiche first thing this morning after our shopping spree at the Pacas. We went in an awesome truck in our awesome outfits! We found a couple families that we really want to give pilas to and we are delivering them next week.
This cannot be healthy for this kids future family. There were 3 kids about 16 years old doing this on the truck! The road was SO bumpy! We were dying just standing in the truck! We thought we were going to knock our teeth out. Strong boys.
Feas.
Cute little girl along the way!
This is the family of the branch president of the area. We went to his house to see if he could point us in the direction of some poor families in the branch. During a previous trip, my dad installed a stove and a pila and set up a solar panel so they are far better off than their neighbors, but we realized that they could desperately use clothes. We are going to bring them some next week. They have a little 3 month old baby who is so precious! She has horrible eczema all over her body, poor thing. Since I am plagued with eczema too, I understand how irritating that would be. She has it 100 times worse than I do. We are going to send some eczema medicine up with her too. I hope that I can find it in a pharmacy here, but if i can't I will just give her my tube and buy a new one when I get home in a couple weeks!
Kassara captured the moment of bliss in my cutest clothes ever!
We are bringing a pila to this family next week too.
A bathroom we found along the way. This was facing the path and it doesn't have a door! Not fun.
How old would you guess this little girl is?? We thought she was probably about 18 months, MAYBE 2 years old. This poor little girl is FIVE years old!!! She has the most malnourished looking body we have ever seen. It is so sad. We are giving them a pila and clothes and a basket next week. Their parents weren’t home when we came by so it will be a really fun surprise!
Carrying baskets to deliver, the Guatemalan way!!! :)
We went to deliver baskets to some poor families around the area. We delivered one to a small family up the road, one to a family that we already delivered a pila to, and one to an older couple that lives way up in the mountain.
An awesome pool along the way!
The poor lady that we visited has elephantitis. I asked her if it was okay for me to take pictures of her legs to show to the states and see if we can get her some help. I don’t think there is a cure for this, but we are going to send up a whole bottle of ibuprofen for her to try to numb her pain. It was such a humbling experience. We are becoming kind of numb to everything here. It was sad for us to visit her, but not as shocking. If that were ANYONE in the USA it would be so sad and they would get so much attention and help from the community. Here, not only does she have this horrible disease, but her living conditions are awful. I don’t think she ever gets out of the house, because it was a very complicated, long walk up there. They were very shy and you could tell that they weren’t very used to people visiting. We told the grandma that she was pretty and she got so embarrassed like a little girl. When we went to leave she was thanking us and wouldn’t let go of Kassara’s hand. She just kept rubbing it and thanking us. It was so cute! It made us teary eyed. Veronica and her kids went with us. She is such a cute lady, and her Spanish is easier to understand than most! We love her.
Poor thing.
It was raining on the way back so we used banana leaves as umbrellas! They worked really well!
Kass had a few slips in the mud on the way down! hahahaha. I wish I had it on video!
We have seen a few Cubans around the town lately and have felt a little nervous around them. They are big men (compared to the rest of the shorties) and the Zambrano family told us many horror stories about Cuba and dangerous Cubans. Today while I (kass) was walking by the church one of them stopped to talk to me. In broken English he asked me when I wanted to go get a drink with him. I told him that I actually didn’t drink because I am a mormon and pointed to the church. He looked at me with the most confused look and said “you don’t drink anything? Not even juice?” He was so confused as to why his comment would insinuate drinking alcohol. I laughed and told him that of course I drank juice and water. He continued to say that he would really like me to come drink JUICE with him and his FRIENDS, emphasizing to reassure me. haha He seamed harmless and friendly but he still creeps me out a little. Sorry, but if you come from a creepy country it classifies you as a creepy person. Hard life.
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