Beautiful Feet: March 30, 2015

Mountain top day. We had kept Monday open because we thought Cesar and Eliza were going to move that day. They had to pack Monday and move Tuesday so we had some time. We waked over to Sister Rosamiria’s home and she went with us to study with the lady she and Charlotte had studied with last week who is a sabatarian. She sat and listened but with a very resistant attitude so I doubt the study had much effect on her. Because we had some time we decided to go on a lunch date to the Celestial Gardens. We had been there with Lucky but had wanted to go back and walk around and see all the garden. It was really beautiful and interesting but fairly pricey for here so we probably won’t go back soon. When we came back we dropped the car off at the car wash. For $4 they vacuumed, cleaned all the inside and wiped down all the leather and perfumed the inside, they also washed the car, cleaned the tires, waxed the car and machine buffed it all over. Wonder what that would cost in the States. It looked the best it has since we got here (see picture). Charlotte thanked me for taking her out to lunch so I thanked her for the car cleaning. I told her it was my consolation for having to spend the day at the garage last Friday. Then we had our adventure. We had told Edgardo we would go to his Monday night home Bible study sometime and this seemed like the perfect day. We went over to meet him at the road near his house and he came down and asked us to come in for hot chocolate. Then we walked about a mile down the road and started up the mountain. It was quite a mountain and quite an experience. We were told that from the top you could see all the way to the ocean. Unfortunately there was a lot of cloud cover and you could not see the ocean but it was still amazing and very beautiful. I had just told Charlotte Sunday on the way to Juayua how much I would like to climb one of these mountains if it were safe. She said that clearly she was not the only one who heard that. I have to be more careful what I wish for. Anyway, there were only 4 houses up there, no water and no electricity and I still can’t figure out how they got all the concrete and other building materials up there. The brother and his wife have to come down the mountain and walk to services every Sunday and then back up. There are no roads or vehicle access of any kind. After we got home we skyped the kids and I went to bed pretty early but I had no trouble sleeping.