Beautiful Feet: February 8, 2015

One mouse down, and no telling how many more to go! At one o'clock on Sunday morning, Dwaine got up and discovered that a mouse was on top of the bathroom sink. He put both his hands out to stop it and it went into the sink. We had a glass nearby and he turned it over the mouse. The sink has quite a curve and so he found a flexible book to slip under it. Then, the discussion pursued. Does Dwaine kill it, or release it outside. In the end Dwaine showed mercy and took it outside. The garage door was very loud and then he sort of tossed it away from the house. It went scurrying down the street. When Lucky got up she said she heard all the commotion and wondered if we had a fight and one of us leftJ! That was so funny! However, where there is one, there is more. She discovered another one when she got, so the war is on.

Our first service was Shucututian. We seemed to recognize more people and had a few more conversations. While our Spanish may be conversational, this week as things settle, we want to try to commit to several hours of study each day. Otherwise, our growth in that area will be slow. One aspect of this service that was enjoyable, was the fact that Hector presented Lucky with a nice gift for her year of service here. She is returning to the States to greet her new grandson and will not return for a couple of months. It was a nice sendoff. Another thing caught my attention too. Dwaine and I have been having some studies with a couple of people who are not Christians. A young lady, Bessi, from the congregation goes with us. Bessi’s mother is having gallbladder surgery on Monday. Also, Hector’s children have had an ongoing cough for some time and have not been able to come to service. One of the leaders of the church came around after church and asked people to sign up for a time to pray for these individuals for 30 minutes. Dwaine and I signed up for the 6:00 and the 6:30 a.m. slot. The goal was to have a full day of prayer by the saints. What a blessing to participate in this. We pray God will answer the prayers. Dwaine and I are hoping to study with Bessi’s mom some time, so we pray this will be an encouragement.

We decided to walk around Ataco for a few minutes before the Ataco service and then walk to the service. It didn’t take too much time to take in all the sites of Ataco. While it is very picturesque, it is also very small. We walked home quickly afterwards and left for the service in Juayua within about 30 minutes. Osvaldo preached about Stephen’s faith in Acts. It was a great sermon. One amazing thing happened at Juayua. Osvaldo’s parents were visiting. I had met them previously and Dwaine got to meet them. Mr. Azucena is helping us with church sponsorship to get our visas. He has long been a founding church member throughout El Salvador and their children are extremely active as preachers, youth ministers and wives of preachers. There was a man at the church at Juayua who became a Christian 50 years ago because of the message of the gospel that he heard on the radio. Mr. Azucena was the man who gave the radio message! Last night was the first time that they had the opportunity to meet! God works in amazing ways!

Afterwards, Hector asked if Dwaine and I would like to go get a bite to eat with Carlos and Osvaldo. Carlos said he could go, so we ended up going with Osvaldo, Osvaldo’s family and parents and Isabel from Shucututian. We found a little Pupuseria and it was great, but left us getting home late. We were greeted by Lucky, saying she was so worried about us. She did not have minutes on her phone, so we could not contact each other. We hated to give her such a fright, but it was good to have the fellowship.