Beautiful Feet: May 27, 2015

Last day for us. We headed out for our evangelism location in Ataco at 9. Once the group arrived, we started on our studies. We noticed that there was another group of door knockers in the area. My group headed for Rembert’s. He was home, but a couple of people were there already visiting him. He ran them out immediately and had us in. Within minutes, a friend of his, Erwin, arrived. Remberto had invited him to come study with us because he did not go to church. Interestingly, Remberto translated for about an hour and I translated for about an hour. Yes, it was a long study. In the end, Remberto said that even though he had brought his friend, the study was good for him. We finally decided we had to move on to meet some other people. It was amazing to work together to bring the message. Osvaldo had made an appointment with a lady named Patty, so we headed her way. We stayed in her home about an hour. She had been going to a church, but there was a lot of discrimination in the church. So, her family had not gone in a while. She had lots of questions and invited us to come again. We passed by one more house and visited with a lady name Anna. We had passed her home several times and was finally able to connect with her. Then it was time for lunch. I had made four loaves of sweet breads: two banana, a zucchini and avocado, so we ran by the house to take them for lunch. Afterwards, the group planned to start delivering food about 3. We got a short rest, ten minutes, and then headed to our site. The group didn’t arrive until 3:30. But, a young man and his girlfriend passed while we were waiting so we invited them to dinner. We will work on that after Caleb’s visit next week. When we everyone arrived our group took food to all of our contacts. We also prayed with each family. So of the homes were dirt floored and very poor. It was heart wrenching. While the group started setting up the tents, Dwaine and I headed out for Juayua. The group had a class on Que Dice La Biblia and I taught the children’s class on Cain and Abel. We got home about 7:30 and passed the vans leaving Ataco for the night as well. Tomorrow, the group will go zip lining and visiting the Mayan structures. We are not going to join in. We had planned to pick up a lady at 4:45 to go to the doctor, but Edgardo called and changed the time to 7:45. No complaints there! Dwaine and Edgardo will have to carry Navitidad down the mountain. We are praying it doesn’t rain tonight, so it won’t be slippery. Navitidad’s daughter, Mirnda is the one who was baptized on Sunday. We are going to Sonsonate this time instead of Santa Ana. We hope she can actually see a doctor this time, as we are uncertain that she will be able to. (Dwaine) The other group of door knockers who were there when we got there were JW’s led by the preacher from around the corner that we had met yesterday. We all knew that after talking with us he got in contact with some of his members and told them to be there this morning to compete with us. We headed up the street and met a lady in the street we had not spoken to yesterday. She had lived in California for many years and still had 3 adult children in the States but she was born in Ataco and had come back here for her retirement. She invited us in and we sat in her beautiful courtyard and visited for about an hour. She believes in God but she does not attend any church. I exchanged phone numbers with her and made an appointment to go back with Charlotte on the morning after Caleb leaves. She had asked if Tammy was my wife since we were sitting next to each other and when I told her about Charlotte Tammy and Jerry both said “You will just love Charlotte”. I said I sure did and we laughed. We did not get in too much more in the morning but when we took the food in the afternoon we had a great visit with David and also the family whose son could not speak. It has been an incredible and exciting time with the group here. I am so thankful for the work we are involved in and for all we get to do every day here but the campaign was just plain fun. We have lots of new contacts here in Ataco and that is just from the teams each of us were involved with and there are lots of other contacts as well. Charlotte said we could have been happy working here in Ataco with so many brothers and sisters and all the new contacts we now have. But also the work is Juayua is off to an incredible start and we are getting to be at the beginning of starting a church there which was our dream and for now we can also work in Ataco for part of the week. Our sweet Father always knows best and when He wants us to find a house in Juayua we will.