Beautiful Feet: May 9, 2015

English classes have started!!! We reviewed our first lesson and made sure we had all our materials in order and headed out to Juayua. Our class was scheduled to start at 10 a.m. We knew some interested individuals had stopped by Sister Regina’s home, but we really had no idea how many would come. At 10, I don’t think anyone was in the door yet. But, within a few minutes people started arriving. We planned for a class of 16 and had advertised that students needed to have at least 12 years of age. By 10:30 we had 16, but two only had 9 years. We went ahead and started. The material that Caleb and Della had left us was great. It had audio, ways to practice, exercises galore and homework. We were going great, when about 11:00 four college students arrived. That definitely put us over the top. We finished the class and told the two 9 year olds that they would have to come when we could offer a younger class. While that would give us 18, we really don’t think everyone will come back. If it settles out somewhere around 12, that would be good. Each chapter is long and we tried to complete an entire chapter. That would finish the course in time for our visit to the States in September. Afterwards, we decided that we would not have a time frame that we had to finish the book. We thought it better to slow down some and be sure that everyone is getting the material. We also decided to move the class to the afternoon so we don’t have so much time before the 5 o’clock service. Our final decision for the day was to offer for students to stay after the class for about 30 min. to an hour for open conversation. We think this might give us time to start developing relationships. Afterwards, we went home for the afternoon, but drove back to Juayua for our 5:00 service. It was a good lesson. It started raining during the service, so that left us with a foggy, drizzle going home.