Guatemalan Air

Joshua and Kayley in our yard just before leaving for church on Sunday.

Dear Family and Friends,
Another beautiful week here in Guatemala with temperatures in the 70s each day. We have enjoyed the weather, but have learned the hard way that the air is not as clean as it looks. Joshua has struggled with allergy related respiration problems and has been put on an inhaler. His coughing has lessened, but is still prevalent. He missed two days of school last week and will miss two this week as well. It is our hope that the cough will be gone by the end of the week. Kayley has caught a cold as well, but she seems to be doing better than Joshua. We’re glad for good doctors here. The first doctor we saw practiced in the U.S. for a number of years and speaks English fluently. The other is our new friend Erica who is from Mexico. She is a medical doctor and is in Guatemala for training to be a missionary with the church in compassionate and medical missions. She is wonderful and we’re thankful for her expertise and help with the kids.

We decided to get cable TV here since the price is fair and we believe it will help us learn Spanish. We can get some shows in English and we put the Spanish on closed caption so we can learn more words. It’s difficult to listen to shows all in Spanish as we still feel lost with all that, but hope in a couple more months much more will make sense. We laughed as we watched Scooby Doo in Spanish.

We attended a different church this week that is located across town. The music was loud and full of energy and lasted for quite some time. The entire service was over two hours long, but we enjoyed it all. Shelley went with Kayley to children’s church and Kayley would not let her leave her sight. The kids were served a red kool aid type drink and a tortilla with red sauce. Kayley loved it. We plan on attending there again this week as it is good practice for us to drive there. It is on the way out of town for our trip to Puerto Barrios, which is located on the east coast of Guatemala. We are traveling there in two weeks to meet Shelley’s mom for her one day stop over on her cruise ship. It will be fun to visit if only for one day.

David and Shelley continue their studies in Antigua. We are focused on verbs, verbs and more verbs. We’ve realized you can’t say much without them! Of course, most everything we say is still in present tense as neither of us can think fast enough to bring to mind the correct form in past tense. Yes, we sound ridiculous, but that’s how you learn!

We hope your week is going well. We appreciate your prayers for the kids this week as their bodies get used to the Guatemalan air.


This is a view from the front seat of our car as we entered Antigua for language school.

Love,
The Webbs