April, 2015 Quigley QuarterlyBus riding divine appointmentA number of years ago a church leader heard about Marty's Bible studies, but wasn't able to make it to very many of the sessions because he didn't live close enough to any of the sites. So as it happened, on March 16 he and Marty ended up riding the same bus for an hour. While they talked about what Romans teaches about the gospel, another passenger listened in. After that hour, the second man showed himself friendly and so the teaching on Romans resumed. On reaching his destination, he indicated that bus riding with Marty was something he hoped he could do again in the future. Rendezvous with a salesmanThere are small hamlets of K'iche' speakers dispersed through areas that are not predominantly K'iche'. On March 1, thanks to cell phones, Marty could arrange a time and place to stop along the highway (on his way to Guatemala City) and meet up with Pastor Antonio, who likes to stay stocked in K'iche' New Testaments. Both he and Marty traveled an hour to the meeting area. He took 50 books to sell in his home town. Hector Antonio Perhaps you remember the pickup accident April 12, 2014 that caused one fatality and injured several.   Hector, one of the youngest, suffered a broken arm. In May a pin was inserted in the entire length of his upper arm bone. Finally, in the second week of March, 2015, the pin was removed. There had been numerous delays in getting the procedure done. The supervising physician who inserted the pin repeatedly  said the bone had not healed, even up to when he left employment at the hospital in December.  A new doctor examined Hector in late January at a follow-up appointment. He then chewed out the family for not having brought Hector in sooner to remove the pin. “Excuse me doctor,” said Juan the grandfather, “this is not our fault, we complied fully with the previous doctor who said in November that the bone was not yet healed.” It turns out that the bone had in fact healed long ago, a fact that was confirmed by an X-ray taken in early February. The new doctor simply assumed the family to be negligent rather than cast aspersions on a colleague. The bone had healed so well that it had grown to a point that it was pressing tightly around the pin and would be difficult to remove. An operation was scheduled for late February but was delayed until mid-March.  Hector is again home and was prescribed two medications to take for two more weeks. Hopefully that will be the end of Hector’s ordeal and life will be normal for the family. Catarina continues schoolingThe only daughter of an abandoned woman, Catarina had a hard time paying school expenses. A benevolence fund helped with basic food stuffs and also a  business loan for raising laying hens to sell the eggs. She studied hard and finished her elementary education, and was satisfied with that. Since she had gotten good grades, we were disappointed that she had no plans to continue. However, her friends prevailed on her to start junior high with them, and she's back at school this year! We thank you for helping us help those with whom we have had divine appointments.In Him,