Yes, indeed we are off!
Cathleen, another of Carolyn's trusting souls, and I, embarked early this AM, she for one week, I for eight.
The adventure is as yet unknown, but as always will be predictably unpredictable! She works at the Cancer Treatment Centers in the patient scheduling department, and has taken that first fatal mission trip leap! It is so rewarding to see this mission, this place, through the eyes of someone seeing it for the first time.
She already has seen a Tzeltal funeral with mourners walking down the road following a truck with the coffin aboard. And she has seen 3 days in the clinic with numbers of grateful and shy patients 
bestowing hugs on her for what, she knows not. Just being there, I think... And she has walked to town 
and bargained with a seasoned traveler to buy 3 beautiful blouses. She has seen the mountains right out our door
, and showered in the outdoor shower with 3 streams of cold water coming down. She has seen the outside of the prison! She has seen our Presbyterian modus operandi here and worshipped in a Protestant church for the first time (she is Catholic).
We all are enriched by our morning devotions on the roof at sunrise.
It is cold, but our hearts are warm!
We travel to Ocosingo in stages: Chgo to
We will meet up with the North Carolina contingent in Mexico City. We will arrive to our dorm late Sat. Night and I will make the first of many nests: 2 weeks here, 2 weeks at "my room" at Jan and Pablo's, 1 week back at the Bible School, 
1 week in 2 different villages, back to the dorm for another medical group, and back to Jan's!
Yes, WE'RE OFF!!
Love, Hermanas Carolina y Catalina
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