Beautiful Feet: May 22, 2015

Sometimes I’m more appealing than others. Some of you who know me well might think I’m never appealing. But this morning you would have been wrong. I was appealing about 20 eggs and about 40-50 potatoes. Charlotte is making potato salad for the Franklin Group for lunch tomorrow (Saturday). They arrive today but there are supposed to be about 15 of them and all their luggage for a week so we did not go with Hector to the airport. We will get to spend lots of time with them door knocking here in Ataco. We had not had our usual day here in Ataco for our studies so we headed out about 9:45 to meet Bessie and go to Reina’s. We are finishing up Que Dice and will probably do the weekly reading with her to help her get more from the Sunday sermon. She is so excited that Lucky will soon be here. Then we went back to Bessie’s mother’s house and she wanted us to eat some plantains that she had prepared. She had split them and put sugar, milk and flower in them and then fried them and put cinnamon on top. They were delicious! She wants to come to our house and teach Charlotte to cook pupusas and tortillas. We did study the Bible with her for a few minutes and this was the first time. We hope it will be a start. We came back home for lunch and I dropped Charlotte off and ran over to Ahuachapan to look at a treadmill. We had been talking about one for awhile. We have not been getting enough exercise and we are feeling low on energy and I think I am gaining some weight. We had looked in San Salvador yesterday but all the ones we saw were big and expensive and I had seen one in Ahuachapan for less. So after looking at it again and calling her we decided to go for it. When I got back home we had lunch and rested about 30 minutes then headed out to Rosaria’s. She was sitting on her porch like she was waiting for us. Charlotte led a study on what it means to have faith and act on it. Rosaria talked a lot about her feelings and we had a good visit. We believe she is really close to deciding to be baptized and we ask for your prayers for her. We told Rosaria we would go by and see her step-daughter Natividad (the lady we took to Santa Ana to the doctor and stayed all day). So we went by and spoke to Catherine and then went on over to Natividad. She was also out on her porch and her daughter and grand baby were there. After visiting with them for a little Charlotte led a study on “what must I do to have eternal life?” Next Thursday we will be taking her back to the Dr. for more tests. When we got home we skyped with the kids and I got the treadmill put together and we both tried it out. It is manual but hopefully it will give us some exercise. Before we came I had envisioned going for long walks every morning but with the cobblestone street that is just not practical. At least this will be easier on our feet.