Beautiful Feet: March 28, 2015

Great start to the day! We got to skype with our family in Huntsville. All our children, granddaughter, my parents, and Samuel from El Salvador were all having brunch at Christina’s. It was great to see everyone in the group. Christina fixed a ton of good eating, especially some cinnamon rolls in the crock pot. I asked her to send the recipe, but alas, it looked like most of the ingredients I can’t get here. Maybe, I will get with it and make them from scratch one day!

First police stop. I had been out with Caleb when he was stopped for a document check, so we always kept our papers with us. When I went out by myself for the ladies’ class, I was almost there, when I got pulled over. It was completely random, but it was interesting. There is the car registration, stateside license, temporary visa card, NTE card and passport. He looked at everything, but it all was in order. The only thing that I didn’t have is a license here, but we should get that in April. I walked to Zoila’s and her daughter said we were meeting close-by, about a 2 minute walk. When I arrived at the spot, no one was there, but Zoila and Rachel arrived soon. They had gone out early to meet a family that had been robbed this week. They said the robbers had taken everything, even down to the batteries in the child’s toys. That is the second robbery in the area. Zoila and Rachel said I should walk anywhere by myself, oops! A group gathered and we visited Bessy’s mom, Zoila’s mother-in-law and Zoila’s sister-in-law. Dwaine and I have been working to develop a friendship with Bessy’s mom, Marta, so it was great the whole group visited. She had surgery two months ago for her gall bladder and the site is still inflamed. She didn’t feel very well, but hopefully we encouraged her. I stayed afterwards and talked to her a little bit because we have gotten to know her so well. She is planning to have Dwaine and me for breakfast one day with Bessy’s help. We also stayed a while at Zoila’s sister-in-law. She had four children and her home has recently burned. We took a collection up to help her out. She was very grateful. Rachel asked me to read a scripture for her. I am always deeply moved to choose a scripture that might be an encouragement and help someone find solace and desire in our Lord. I pray for this often and regularly read many hours in the night when I can’t sleep well. That seems to be a regular, so lots of readingJ. We were out about 2 ½ to 3 hours and had about 8ish ladies out visiting. It was a good group with lots of fellowship between each visit.