May was a
busy month. It started off with a two
day children’s camp at the home of Hector and Rachel. It was for kids ages 7 to 12 and it was
really great. We helped out with the
kids, took part in skits and had a lot of fun.
As we were heading back to our house Sat. afternoon we got a call from
Paulo. He had been in charge of all the
games and physical activities for the kids and had done a super job and had
left on the bus ahead of us. He called
to ask if we were ok because there had been a bad wreck between a motorcycle
and a car that looked like ours at the entrance to Ataco. Not us, and we never learned of the fate of
the man on the motorcycle. After we got
home a beauty contestant parade passed by our front door. The next week was consumed with getting ready
to host the monthly preacher’s get together.
Charlotte cooked a ton of food and we spent the week getting everything
ready. It went well but we were glad to
have it over. Saturday we initiated our
English classes. Our first session had
20 students because we had posted adds all over Juayua. By the end of the month we had settled out to
only about 6 or 7 dedicated students but it is our first time and a learning
experience. Charlotte is in charge
because of her years of teaching experience and I assist all I can. We go for 1 ½ hrs. and then have snacks and
visiting time and we have already gotten to start talking with some of the
students why we are here and about Christ.
We had expected to get our 1 yr. visas in May but instead we had a call
from a lady from immigration who came all the way to Ataco to interview us and
3 people who knew us and then needed to interview the man who had signed our
papers from the church here for us to come.
He was out of the country and time ran out because they had started this
process late so we had to go to San Salvador for a 3 month extension. This really worked out good because we also
went to a dentist there about Charlotte’s tooth that had been hurting pretty
much since her fall. She needed a root
canal and he had to put her on antibiotics for a week before the process. The other really big event of May was our
first campaign group. 15 people arrived
from Spring Meadow Church in Franklin, Tn.
We spent 4 days knocking doors with them and it was so rewarding. We each went with a different group and did
translating and that went really well.
We have lots of new contacts for the church here and we plan to start
soon going with Carlos back to some of the contacts each of us made. The first Sunday the group was here we had a
baptism. Mirnda who is the daughter of
Natividad, who is the lady we had helped to go to the Dr., was baptized. Charlotte had studied with her some and also
Edgardo. We also have met a new family
in Juayua that we have now studied with three times and they seem to be very
interested as well as we are becoming good friends. God has showered us with so many
blessings. We cherish your thoughts and
prayers and would love to get any letters or e-mails. In His Love and Service. Dwaine and Charlotte simmonsbeautifulfeet@blogspot.org
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