Beautiful Feet: February 28, 2015

Up at 5 this morningJ…..did some cooking to prepare lunch for the movers. It is funny when you take all the small things to one place and are still living in another, you miss half of what you own. I had to keep improvising for the cooking because half of what I need was in the new place. I headed out at 7:40 to pick up Rachel and Brisa for the ladies’ seminar on teaching children. It was great! First, I knew so many of the ladies from working in Ahuachapan for so many years, so the fellowship was great. Louis, one of the young men that works with the youth, who is a teacher by trade, led the seminar. He focused on the utilization of games in the classroom. His main two points were that they involve all the children and that they typically have zero costs. He had and very well organized power point and he involved many in the audience. Once, he asked for four older volunteers. They were asked to write four likes, dislikes and fears. Afterwards I told Luzelana that I didn’t volunteer because one of my fears was participating in a game in a different language! She just laughed. Afterwards, I volunteered to take all the Ataco ladies back with me. Then, the car wouldn’t start again. Fortunately, there were many helpers there to work on it. When the men couldn’t get it going, they decided to call a mechanic. They asked all the ladies to go to Noe’s home and they started working on lunch. Everyone was so gracious. Dwaine, our landlord and Cesar had gotten all the big items moved, so Cesar brought Dwaine down the mountain. The mechanic found the problem in the negative cable and we were own our way. I told the ladies from Ataco that it would be good when the person that offers a ride had a working car. Hector also came to pick Rachel up. In the end, the fellowship and hospitality was great and the car was fixed! I was much relieved.

As Charlotte said, Cesar and I spent the morning moving the large items. I had thought the landlord from the old house was going to lend us his truck but he insisted on staying with us and doing all the driving. He did not lift much he is probably in his 70’s. He arrived with the deposit Caleb had paid in hand without even waiting to see if the house was clean or if there were any problems. So after we got everything out we tried to clean it really well since they had been so nice to us. The moving went pretty well and everything survived. The worst two things were when we moved the two large cabinets that Caleb & Della had bought as closets, they were very heavy and large and he had put them together so we were not sure if they would stay together. I tied three ropes around each one to reinforce them and they made it. But even on their sides they were way above the pickup sides so I stood in the back and held on to them. I sure was glad when that trip was over. The other was getting the washing machine up the stairs to where the hookups for it were located. In the end all was well. I think we may put the dryer on the large balcony because I have to run wire somewhere anyway and that is close and would be outside since there is no way to vent it. That means I have to get it upstairs which I did not do yesterday. Charlotte did not mention that the young mechanic who came to where the car was on Saturday afternoon and did the repair charged a whopping $10.00. I asked if he came to Ataco and he said he did so I got his number for the future.