Weekly update April 23

April 23, 2005
Happy Sabbath!
Mike and Diane have been visiting us this week. It sure is nice to see them and visit with them. They have kept us busy this week also. We went to get them on Tuesday from Waspam. We did our errands and shopping also. We returned home about 6 pm that evening.
At 9 pm that night a large truck pulled up to the gate. Of course any vehicle that comes after dark is usually assumed to be a medical emergency, which it was. A 16 year old boy had been playing around with his friends. Someone gave him a little shove and he fell into the river onto a rock. He landed on his head/neck. When I saw him, he was talking, breathing and in very little pain. However, he had no sensation or ability to move from his shoulders down. We immediately strapped him to the boards he was laying on and transferred him to our truck for the long trip to Puerto. Clint left at 11 pm that night with the boy. He arrived in Puerto at 4 am. He reported that the boy seemed to regain a little bit of sensation in his upper arms during the trip. The boy will probably be transferred to Managua for continued medical care. Please pray for this boy. It is extremely hard being handicapped in a country like Nicaragua.
On Tuesday morning on the way to Waspam, Clint discovered that a piece of the left rear spring had broken. It seemed to be holding ok but needed replaced. Clint was going to try and do a temporary fix for a couple of weeks until the next trip to Puerto. Well, the next trip came much sooner than expected. Clint was able to find someone in Puerto who could order the part from Managua. He stayed an extra day and came home Thursday with a new spring that he put on the truck Friday morning. We are very thankful that the spring breaking did not put the truck out of commission. We are also very thankful to have it fixed.
We have run out of English sermons to listen to. If anyone has some extra sermon CD's or DVD's, we would love to have some. We don't have a cassette or VHS players so they have to be CD or DVD. Thanks.
Love
Marilyn, Clint, Brandel and Bethany