If you are wondering about my health, thank Him, I am doing so much better, I got pretty sick by the end of august and beginning of September, after the retreat I decided (as I finally had time to do that) to go to the tummy doctor, I did and he gave a couple of test and turned out I had gastritis but also a bug in my tummy. The doctor said “no more coffee or hot pepers” that was the last thing I heard… his mouth kept moving but I was in shock… what do you mean no coffee???

If you know me… coffee is part of me, there is no Betty without coffee… but I had to stop drinking it, cause as soon I had just a little bit of it, my tummy would just felt horrible… those were the 3 longest weeks of my life, but the forth week an angel sent me some decaf coffee and that was my motivation to keep on going with that horrible diet… (coffee was just one out of the 100 things I could not eat!) lots of medicines, lots of days not wanting to get out of bed because the medicine was a bit strong, lots of prayers to recover… and here I am! Thank God as I write this to you… drinking my coffee without feeling bad!

Mainly that is why I have been not good in getting back to you or not writing my regular mail. I am doing much better and guys like this one make it easer every day!

Thank you for keeping me in your prayers!

After that I took some time off to recover… my sister Dora and I found this incredible deal to fly to San Diego for $150.00 round trip to visit my sister in CA. My mother met us there, and we all had a great time together, I have to ask you to keep my nephew in your prayers, Guille is wearing a helmet to fix a small problem in the shape of his head.

I came back to Guatemala on September 21 and worked on our objectives and office meetings; there is a lot to do and little time to do it!

What is going on with Betty?

You might wonder

( I hope you do!)

Well my life has been so busy during this last months, busy with ministry but also family and the transitions at the office are not finish yet, but mostly heath issues.

I want to share with you a little about the ministries that have been going on after the teams went back to the States.

With a team from Arizona we worked at a “school and orphanage” in the city. The Guatemalan running that place is very poor and there is not help from anywhere else. This team was lead by God to support this ministry by paying the rent of the property, I am trying to set that in a way that is clear to all parts!

There was another team that came after. They did great construction work, one of the houses they built was for a widow with 4 children. After they left the lady wanted to have a service at her house, and I did my best to make it happen too!

There was our annual retreat, it was meant for all the missionaries from SEPAL (OCI IN GUATEMALA) and I was in charge of that, as I asked you to help me pray for that and I know you did because everything went just great!