Maxin's story


While I was at Adventist Hospital with Elonde Alce (see below), I struck up a conversation with Maxin who checks patients into the hospital area where we were. He is a 26 year old college student studying to be a science teacher.

When the earthquake struck, Maxin was in his dorm room. He ran outside with everybody else. The building survived and he's living there now. But he told me about another university dorm that collapsed and killed all of the students inside.


I asked Maxin about his family. His father died some time ago. His mother and a younger sibling were in their house when the ground started to shake. His Mom refused to leave the house. The child pulled her out just as the house caved in on itself.


Maxin had a job and was almost finished with his university studies. Now he works at the Hospital (they don't pay their added staff anything) and is bereft about not finishing his education, getting a job and finding a lovely bride. Hold this good and kind man in your hearts and prayers.