Being Like a Palm Tree

Before our experience started, I sent an email to the team asking all to remember to be like palm trees. Have deep roots, committed to our mission. Have think skin, don't let things get to you. Bend in the wind, be flexible when things don't go our way. Grow, look for opportunities to expand your thinking and experience and Bear fruit.

Today we had an opportunity! We were stopped in customs for inspection of our packages. All prescription medications were stopped. We are told that after we see a customs broker, an attorney and someone from the Ministry of Health, we may be able to pay the appropriate duty and get our medication next week.

In addition, all of our over the counter medicines were inventoried and we were charged 12% duty to bring them in. We are still in Guatemala City. Our plan was to be up on the mountain before dark. We'll see if that happens. Pray that our situation resolves quickly!

Thank you for all of your donations of medicine. Much of it has entered Guatemala for the people you intended it for. It is the antibiotics, the albuterol and the hypertension drugs that are being held.