Together they formed a living archive of a medical mission that has quietly linked western Montana with one corner of Guatemala for nearly forty years. Thousands of miles away, in the mountains of western Guatemala, some patients still walk for days to reach the mission clinic in Santo Tomás. Every six months, a volunteer medical team returns to Santo Tomás for another week of clinics and surgeries. In the remote villages around Santo Tomás, the disease had become an accepted part of life. “Everyone was humbled and grateful for this opportunity to serve our brothers and sisters in Santo Tomás, Guatemala,” she said.