Update on Rosita!

For those of you asking and wondering about Rostia, well we still have not got anywhere with the testing. The Dr. saw her three times and in those times could not get accurate tests done for her hearing. She seemed to raise her hand at times and then at other times did not raise it when there was a beep. So we were referred by the Dr. to another place that will work with her and test her. They are telling us to keep her up all night and then come in for testing and she then will respond more accurately. But what I am wanting to know who is volunteering to stay up with her all night and keep her awake!?!?!

I will continue to keep you all updated as we do more testing.

church website

Dorian and Fernando have been working hard on getting the church website up and going here it is.................they are still working on it

Santa Ana Church of Christ

www.santaanachurch.net

A visit to the park

Katty

Monica

Sisi

Cindy

Daniela

happy birthday brayan

Happy Birthday Brayan! He turned the BIG 1-0 today!!!!!

Independance Day Parade

Cindy, Sisi, and Brayan
So tom. here in Honduras they celebrate their Independence Day! So today the kids from kinder and from the school got all dressed up and marched down the Santa Ana road parading themselves! Tomorrow there will be a lot more parades and festivities!

Daniela

Monica

Fernando

Sisi

All of the kids that were in the parade!

Here comes the parade..........

Indians

Kidddos!

hardships

"Anyone signing up for the kingdom of God has to go through plenty of hard times."
Acts 14:22
Just because you signed up does not mean it becomes easy.......

Happy B~Day GMA!!

Today is my dear old sweet grandma's 83rd b~day! Oh how I miss spending time with her! Although I was very happy this summer when Dorian got to meet my gma that I talk about so often!

Father

And it is my desire to lavish my love on you simply because you are my child and I am your Father
1 John 3:1

pics

Monica and Daniela

Rosita Update

We still need to do more testing on Rosita after today. The Dr. says she is not cooperating well and we need to spend more time with her with a whistle and her responding. Then they are going to try again next Wed. to see where we get. I will continue to keep you updated.

Dia de el Nino

Today here in Honduras is celebrating kids day! It is huge celebration! There is lots of work and preparation that goes into all of this. The teachers in school have been selling raffle tickets and doing other projects to raise money to celebrate this day now for months or longer. The kids have waited a long time for this day. They hear so much talk about this day but have anticipated this day for a while now. Fernando wakes up some morning and says is today the day for the pinata. Yesterday I told him it was when he woke up today! So the will go off to school today and have a huge celebration.
Last Sunday we celebrated it in the church. And here some pictures from that.................

Happy Birthday

Dorian and Brian Happy B~Day!!!

Aug. 08 Newsletter

Aug. 08 Newsletter

Our new houseparents, Fernando and Brenda are adapting to life here at Casa and working with us right now with our children. We are trying to get them a place built and ready so that they will be in a building with 8-10 children. Right now they are working with the 13 that we have right now.
Rosita, who came to Casa in July has been to many appointments here and the latest doctor's appointment indicates that she may have some hearing in her right ear. We go back next week to have a more accurate test of her hearing.
My Dad was able to visit this month for 10 days and it was good to have him here as he fixed so many things and was a huge help here at Casa.
My wonderful husband Dorian has not been feeling well at all this month. He has not been able to keep food down and has lost over 20 pounds. We finally found a specialist that started him on some medicine and it has helped him some. We both get every Monday off and we have been spending it going to his doctor's appointments. He is to have a test for a parasite this coming Monday and then maybe a scope of his stomach. He is getting discouraged and having a hard time keeping up with all of his duties as minister. Please pray for his complete healing.
Terri Tindall sent out the first Casa newsletter so let me know if you did not receive it and I will see that you receive it. Jen and I came to Casa de Esperanza in October 2005 but during the last few months she has decided to do other ministry work here in Honduras, so she has left the Casa family but we still expect to see her here from time to time to love on the children. Pamela is seeing a plastic surgeon now also and we are trying to get permission for her to have surgery on her foot. She was hit by a bus when she was younger and the surgeon then did not do a good job and she is in a lot of pain and it bleeds almost daily.
Life in Honduras is never boring, as somedays we do not have electricity, some we do not have water. Some days there are transportation strikes and our help can not get here. And on one ocassion this month my showerhead almost caught on fire. Never a dull moment here. But God is good and always turns whatever is meant for bad into good for us here at Casa. Please feel free to email me any questions or comments.......

Blessings
Karen and Dorian Guido

Pamela

Right now we are in the process of trying to get things approved for Pamela to have surgery. She came here to live at Casa in May 2007. A couple of years before coming here she got hit by a truck. So she was taken to the hospital and had plastic surgery. Well I do not know if she did have a good job the first time or what but she is normally in lots of pain when she walks a lot. She mostly puts all of her weight on the other foot so both feet end up hurting. She hardly ever walks on the ball of her foot because that is where the problem is and where she puts lots of pressure.
After seeing a good plastic surgeon he is wanting to do plastic surgery to stop the pain she is in. So right now I am just trying to get permission. It is not an easy task. Have already shown the Dr.'s letter and talked to a few high ups but still have some more people to go thru before getting it approved.
I will be sure to keep you all updated on the process of how things are going!

video

Please take a minute and watch this video and let it speak to you.........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-KZyn3ep9U

Before it's too late................you can make a difference!

Rosita update

Yesterday Rosita went to Hospital Escuela and was tested in the audiology booth. The Dr. seemed to think in the right ear she can hear some what but he can not tell the damage at this point done at this point to the ear. She was raising her hand at times when there was no sounds and other times she raised it with sounds. So next Wed. we are to go back again and the Dr. wants to do the more tests to see if they match to what she did yesterday. He wants to get a consistent results before moving on with the next step we need to make with her.
So it a step in the right direction.....she does have hearing we just do not know to what extent or anything yet. So keep praying!

playing

Last Friday was visitation......we all piled in the van and the kids all anxiously wait to see their mommas. Well this week only Brayan's mom showed up but the kids still enjoyed getting out and playing!