Beautiful Feet: May 23, 2015

Campaign day one. We got up to the corner where the group was to pass by to pick up workers in Ataco at 9:00. There were Bro. Osmin, his daughter Carolina and Bro. Melvis waiting on one corner and about four teens waiting on the other side of the street. We talked and joked about 20 minutes and Hector’s van and another rented van showed up loaded with folks from Franklin and we all piled in. We went to a soccer field on the back side of Ataco and were divided up into teams of one Ataco teen, one interpreter and one or two Franklin people. I went with a man and his daughter and a teen girl from here, Carla. We knocked doors to invite the people and especially children to a big 5:00 event at the soccer field. We talked to lots of people and families and had some pictures taken with some of them. I (Charlotte) went out with David and Lisa from the States and Javier, Edgardo’s son from here. The first lady that we went to invited us in when we asked if we could pray with her. So, we also read some scriptures. David picked out the story in Acts of the repentant crowd on the day of Pentecost. We learned later that she brought her children to the soccer court for the evening activities. She was so gracious to let us visit. The others we visited let us pray with them. One man, who had an injury to his eye, needed work. The second man and daughter said both he and his wife were policemen in Ahuachapan and wanted prayers for safety and finally one older man asked for peace as well. Only one family was not receptive. It was an encouraging start to the day. About 11:30 Charlotte and I walked back to our house to eat a quick chili dog and head out to Juayua for the English Class. We had to stop by Hector & Rachel’s to drop off some tables and the potato salad. Everyone was already back there when we arrived but we could only visit a moment. We had somewhat of another disappointment with our English class. Only 5 students came. We heard later that one was sick and another who lived nearby came by later to say she had too much homework. We did get to spend about 20 minutes after class talking to the two older men, Nelson and Carlos, about what we were doing in El Salvador and invited them to services. Then we went to our 3:30 study with the family who makes the coffee. We had a good study and invited them to services also. We had a pretty good number for our 5:00 Bible study at Regina’s and the best news was that Sister Rosalidia was able to attend. We had to make our mandatory stop at Selectos on the way home. One funny note, Cesar had helped with the campaign and when he arrived he told us that there were two houses available in Juayua that a fruit seller knew about. When we talked to Sister Regina she said she had seen both of them Friday and that one was very small and the other shared just one bathroom with another family. Still looking!!