February 20, 2015

Friday was a little slow for us.  We headed out early to go by and visit Rachel, our sweet sister, and take some lasagna.  That was a challenge to make, but I had found some cottage cheese in San Salvador and wanted to try it.  We are in prayer for Rachel and all of the Nance family, as David’s mother passed.  We were scheduled for a study at 9:30, but Reina was not home.  It is our understanding that study times are somewhat open-ended, so we were not surprised that she wasn’t home.  We drove back home and planned to visit again later in the day.  After lunch, we headed out for our studies with Katherine and Stephanie and those went well.  Reina still was not home, so we tried to connect with Carlos for the evening study.  Then, it happened, yikes, the car wouldn’t start.  The battery wouldn’t turn over, so Dwaine started working on cleaning the battery posts.  Each one had a good bit of corrosion on it.  Bessi’s father-in-law drove up on a motorcycle and he started helping us.  He went inside and cleaned and bent a penny.  Dwaine loosened the post and he added the penny for a better connection.  It started!  We sure were thankful.  It was almost evening and we didn’t want to leave the car out on the street all night.  Tomorrow, I am making my first trip out alone and I was thinking, I was thankful this didn’t happen when I was by myself.  It was a blessing to have some help and get things going.  The extra time it took made us miss the evening study that is like a life talk.  So we came home for the night.  Dwaine helped snap some beans for dinner.  It is quite a process to have veggies here.  I had brought a slow cooker/pressure cooker and the pressure cooker cooked them in 6 minutes.  We won’t say how long it took to clean and snap them thoughJ  They sure were good.  With all the bad weather in Huntsville, it was good to learn all the kids were safe at home.  I guess we all  had an evening in. 

Study with Katherine

Walking along the trail, we passed a quiet girl in a tree.