August 2015
MONTERRICO
What a wonderful time we had with our dear friends serving with us at the Missionary Training Center. President and Sister Cox, President and Sister Abularach, President and Sister Wood, and us...President and Sister Llloyd. The Abularaches took us to her sister's condo where we played on the beach, went to a turtle hatchery, and took an early morning tour of an Mangrove Swamp. (It was absolutely stunning at 5:30 in the morning.)
We headed off to the beach south of Guatemala City.
All work and no play makes us all boring...We weren't! We PLAYED!
Later that day we went to the turtle hatchery, a non-profit organization that helps preserve the turtle eggs, hatches them, and then releases the baby turtles into the ocean. Most eggs never make it to the water because of preditors...birds, animals, and people. Turtle eggs are quite well liked in Guatemala. A turtle will hatch as many as 80 + eggs. Men search for the eggs, dig them up, and then sell them. The hatchery buys as many as they can and then buries them in their hatchery.
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