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Sister Liz booked our hotel room in Guatemala City…the nicest…and safest which is probably why she booked it here. It is gorgeous…first hair dryer, robes, safe etc….  The gated hotel had many stores, food choices and movie theaters.  We ate some lunch & wandered about waiting for Sisters Liz & Annie.  I am sure my heart missed a beat when I spotted them.  Eight months of emails back & forth and finally together.  They were excited as we were. They were also tired (after all, one is 84 & the other 69) so they went to rest and Rog & I went to the pool.  Three wine glasses & one Diet Coke toasted our rendezvous!  7 AM we were in their jeep with Annie at the wheel headed toward their mission.  We made several stops along the way to break up the trip…breakfast, groceries, hardware, pick up a hearing aide & dinner.  We were awed by the mountain panoramic views & by all the stories the sisters shared with us.  We learned about the background of the indigenous people they work with…how they have been persecuted, how the mining companies are destroying their land, how the drug lords take over their land, earthquakes & flooding devastations and the government crackdown on the religious missionaries that left many dead.  Sister Liz told me more about the Presentation Sisters, her earlier missions and we both laughed about family stories.  At 5 pm, we arrived at San Jose Clinic in Conception Talapa.