One week later...

Last week, we mentioned the pending arrival of Loren Schrenk and company.   Well, they arrived safely last Saturday and spent the week here meeting with potential patients and then doing operations.  They were able to do operations on 10 people on Tuesday and Wednesday.  Nine of them were cataract surgeries and one was something else which I could barely pronounce, let alone remember and spell.  Loren's work here has been a great testimony to the community and we are grateful for his help. 

The group that came down with Loren consisted of Loren and Betsy Schrenk, Mike and Sherice Reinhard and their 7 month old son Caleb, and Shari Henderson (a nurse that works with Loren in St, Louis).  Betsy, Sharice and Shari helped in the surgeries (they are all nurses) and Mike helped drive people to and from Zamora for surgeries and watched Caleb while Sharice was helping Loren.  While it is a great week, it also throws the schedule way off.  We enjoyed the fellowship and the good food a lot but are ready to get back in the swing of things next week. 

The group leaves tomorrow, just missing the great parade for the Mexican Día de la Revolución (Day of the Revolution).  At 9:00 tomorrow morning we will be in the plaza with all the kids from school and will march through the town.  It should be an interesting day (not that I - Regg- particularly enjoy it, but I don't get much choice being a teacher).  Providing Regg survives the festivities (mostly confetti) we will be able to get back into normal life next week and look forward to Thanksgiving. 

Thanks to everyone who commented!  We didn't know there were so many blog stalkers.  I know there are still more out there, but it does help motivate us to continue on with the whole blogging thing.  Feel free to ask us any questions about what is happening down here as well.  We will try to answer them in our posts.  So, keep it up.  We love hearing from you (and, yes, we did check the comments at least once a day last week).