Chapter 33
THE NEW APARTMENT IN ORANGE WALK
When we got back to O. W.,
we lived, the next six weeks, in the guest room in the new center building and
took our meals with Ben and Becky. They became very dear to us.
After New Year, Ben end
Becky went to Costa Rica and we lived in their apartment and used their
equipment. In April we packed our trunks and sent them to Salunga, PA.
Mennonite Trading Center Completed
.I helped Dr. Harvey E. Mast with the pastoral work at Orange Walk for four months, in lieu of Ben. I also finished most of the
structural work on the new building. In February and March I replaced all the
black plastic water pipes in the "medical building". After we had
gotten all-day electricity and the water pressure system having a higher
pressure than the former gravity flow, all the elbow fittings began to leak. At
first I spent much time and effort to repair the leaks, but at last Paul Martin
ordered me to replace the plastic pipes with galvanized iron pipes. It. was a
frustrating job.
In April Judy Miller, Miriam
Eberly (nurses), Bill Houser (V. S.), Ada and I drove west into Guatemala to
see the Mayan Indian ruins at Tical. That was an amazing sight. One night we
stayed at a hotel in Flores and another night camping out at Mountain Pine
Ridge, sleeping in our hammocks. The day after our return, being a National
Holiday, the entire staff took a holiday boat ride to Cay Corker.
And so we ended our twenty
months overseas. We flew out of Belize at 1:00 PM, Tuesday April 30th, 1966 and
landed at Philadelphia at 12:30 AM May 1st.