Beautiful Feet: March 29, 2015

Holy week has arrived. We were told to expect various activities here due to the Catholic influences. At 6:30 in the morning people began collecting around our doorway and sidewalks. Many flowers had been placed in the street and at 7:00 the procession began. The parade was to commemorate the Triumphal Entry for Jesus into Jerusalem. The statue of Christ was hand carried and appeared to be very heavy. To go through all the streets of Ataco would take quite some time and the movement was very slow. A good size groups of people collected along the way and made the journey with the procession. We headed out for Shucutitan shortly afterwards for our first service. I stayed to visit with the teen girls, but the group was a little smaller due to the holidays. School will be out for the whole week. We tried to visit Rosario because she did not come today to service, but she was not home. Otherwise, we mostly made plans for the spend the night that will be at our house on Thursday. I am sure that there will be no sleep that night. After staying up all night, the girls wanted to end with a visit to the Ataco pool. Well, I said that would have to be a separate time, I didn’t think swimming after a sleepless night was a good idea for such an old person as meJ. Anyway, we are planning some crafts, games, devo and lots of eats. I am looking forward to the night….except for the sleepless part. Before too late, Dwaine and I headed out for Juayua. We wanted a little time to see some of the activities on Sunday in the town, so we left a little early. We walked around for about an hour and ate dinner before service. As we were eating, another procession started with Jesus carrying the cross. After, it passed we headed out to sister Regina and brother Pedro’s home for service. Franklin preached and he even told a story about door knocking with Della. It was announced that next week Cesar would take over the preaching and we would be working alongside Cesar and Eliza. They will be moving this week to Juayua and settling in. It is exciting to have this focus before us and we pray God will open many hearts in this city.