I hope you will all be happy with the bishop’s pastoral visit and that it will bear fruit.
Here Fr. Jesús is sick, but gratefully he is getting better… The other members of the apostolic community are in good shape and we thank God for his great love for us. Fr. Samuel will leave for Ethiopia to undergo medical tests and to rest. I pray the Lord that he may return well, full of good health and strength, to face anew the challenges of mission. Today his malaria came back. I hope he will be better tomorrow, because he is due to travel home.
This time I came to Bangui to open an account for the school. There is an organization that helps us and wants us to have an account to which to send the money.
We brought along a Pygmy couple and their baby, who was born with a nose deformation, to have surgery in the same pediatric hospital where they attended little Merveille. He was already operated on and it seems it was successful. May God allow it to be so! He will be discharged on Friday and will return to Mongoumba with us so that we can follow him as long as he needs care, because in the camp there are no hygienic conditions nor anyone who can do it. I hope Honoré (that’s his name) will do well…! The parents are very happy!
Next to Honoré there is a baby who was born without an anus and the waste spreads through the abdomen. He will undergo surgery tomorrow… May the Lord allow him to get well, so that in the future he will have a normal life.
By the grace of God Marveille is now growing normally.
Maria has already recovered a bit from malaria. Keep on praying for her.
Always united in prayer.
A great missionary hug to the all world.
María Augusta, CLM from Portugal in the CAR
