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2. Winter 1989 Newsletter: The Foundation's altruistic work among the Mayans, Impressive description of Foundation work by a Catholic Priest, Outline of the PHILOSOPHY & PRINCIPLES OF THE GOOD LIFE.
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FELIZA SAVED:
WE HUMANS CAN DO MIRACLES THROUGH COOPERATIVE EFFORT
By Cordell Andersen
One of our current requests for help was on behalf of Feliza Jul, from Valparaiso, with a needed cancer surgery and treatment. Feliza was one of the first we helped and is seen in the photograph of "The First Central House Family," inserted below to the left, she being on the extreme right. In the picture on the right, Feliza is on the left, seen with a daughter and granddaughter on the porch of her home at Valparaiso.
She was the kind of faithful person who, once came to me when I was taking my bath in our lake, saying she needed my help urgently as her daughter was deathly ill.
I told her that it would take me a few minutes to get to the house, dress, and get to her house, so in the meantime asked, "Do you have faith in the power of prayer?" She answered in the affirmative, and I followed with, "Then go give her yourself a blessing as her mother and a person of faith. just as was once common in the days of Eliza R. Snow who wrote the hymn, 'Oh My Father!'"
When I got there she said she had given the blessing and her baby was well, happy and smiling.
Back to the present, her cancer surgery & treatment in Guatemala City would cost more than we had available and sent the recommendation that she be helped by her church--the LDS, and its members from Valparaiso. We did make a token donation to help of Q.1,000 ($133), and since have received the following report from Federico:
"….I want to inform you that I visited doña Feliza Jul from Valparaíso and was told that in very serious condition she was taken to Guatemala City where she was operated on, and thanks to the Lord, all went well and she is now at home resting and recuperating. The expenses were covered by donations from members of the community, the LDS Church, and completed by the donation from the Guatemalan Foundation."
This is the kind of "three-way cooperation" we have always promoted to be able to solve problems in our work in Guatemala: The people themselves giving all they can; Asking for help from interested institutions with responsibility for their people; and then, the Foundation completing the amount needed to do the miracle of healing, constructing medical clinics, and schools, adding on to schools needed kitchens, providing educational materials, building libraries, and providing nutritional supplements at schools, and helping to create needed community developments such as potable water systems, electrification, and more.
We hope and pray that we can all continue to do our part, joining with our brothers and sisters in Guatemala who are doing their best to do theirs.
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Here is a picture of Feliza who grew up in the Central House, along with sisters, Cecilia and Rosalia, and brother, Agustin. She helped us raise our children and in this picture is holding Marcia "Nita" Elizabeth, now Marci Johns, who grew up to serve for quite a few years as a successful Executive Director of the Foundation.
LAST OF ALL I'll quote the words, from one of the newsletters, stated by an Italian-born Catholic Priest from Patzicia who observed our work and said:
"I'm seeing at the CID #2 School the most impressive and effective total development work among the Indians of my 42 years of dedication in Guatemala! I have never seen volunteers for any organization so dedicated to the development of the Indian people. It is obvious to me that God, for some reason, is abundantly blessing Indian communities where the Foundation is able to help. I would recommend that generous support be given to this noble institution so that it's work con continue, and multiply its efforts to bless the Indian people of Guatemala."
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PLEASE HELP US KEEP DOING OUR PART WITH YOUR DONATIONS
AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN.
THANKS!
