Getting closer to getting home. Maternity packets and sending things home.

Kathia Rivera Bair is a ward member of our daughter Julie´s ward and is an employee of United Airlines.  This past March Kathia helped the ward with their maternity donations here to Guatemala for the free hospital for mothers who cannot afford healthcare during their pregnancy.   Kathia has standby flight privileges and she graciously volunteered to bring them this past March. Again she graciously came last Thursday August 12th and brought her mother Martha Rivera. They brought with them 4 full sized suitcases full of donations for the Maternity Hospital and other supplies for the Dental Clinic, CCM (MTC) and schools and orphanages.  Geneva Stringham and her ward put together beautiful hand made receiving blankets. Geneva also hand made some little baby hats, donated toys, books, and handmade bags that will be so welcomed by all who receive them.  Also that were donated were onsies, socks, and some hygiene kits of soaps, shampoos and deodorant from Kathia´s ward that will also be distributed to the most needed areas. 

In turn, Kathia and her mother took back with them to the states the same four suitcases filled with our belongings and decorations that we had collected while here.  It will lighten our load when we return to the states on September 1st.  Just two weeks from tomorrow.  Can hardly believe how fast this has gone.

Unloading the suitcases into a cart that will go to Elder and Sister Dones apartment.

Elder Burningham, Sister Done, Kathia Bair and Martha Rivera

 Getting them ready to place into kits

Sister Lloyd and myself in Sister Done´s apartment putting things together.

 An assembly line to put together kits.

Onsies in a basket as part of our assembly line.

This is how small some of the babies are.  The hat barely fits on this baby´s head.

Tiny baby being fed by syringe

Mother with her maternity kit.  Hat made by Geneva Stringham.  

Tiny little one