Beautiful Feet: July 11, 2015

Graduation Day! Today is the big event! This is the day to honor our teachers and students and to meet families. Yes, all these things came together in a grand event. So many people worked to pull this off. Lisabeth did all the decorations, I cooked the food and ordered two cakes, Dwaine got all the tables, chairs, drinks and cakes. And the team worked like crazy to complete all the last minute details. Wow, it was great. We had about 60 people to come and everyone took tons of pictures, made comments, joined in the refreshments and hopefully, have decided to continue with their English in our ongoing classes. Most important, several relationships have formed so that we can share the gospel in increasing measure beyond the many seeds that have already been planted. Everyone was just amazing. We are truly blessed by the hard work of the teachers and the depth of friendships that have started. After the graduation, we all headed over to one of the families that have been coming. They live in a home next to the Reptile Exhibit and sell chocofruits and plants. They invited us in and the mother was so sweet. She wanted me to see her entire home and in the back yard she showed me her son’s handiwork of growing corn, orchids and many other plants. Jim had given Omar a Bible earlier in the week and we had the opportunity to present a Bible to his two sisters who had also attended the class. Wow, it was tremendous. The group split afterwards and one group headed to Ciudad Real and one group headed to Ataco. Dwaine headed out to take chairs back to Shucutitian. Luis and Roberto took the younger crew and me back to Ataco. When we arrived to Ataco, I told Luis and Roberto they could let us off at the entrance and we could walk to our house. I thought they were going to Ciudad Real as well. But, they were just going to wait on us. When Dwaine said other arrangements had been made, he headed back up to have them join us. They were just napping. That was funny. Anyway, we took the group shopping and to visit the cemetery. It is always interesting. Then, we went to the House of Coffee for dinner. There was a group from Texas and Nebraska that had been building concrete houses for Habitat for Humanity. They were really friendly and we had quite a good visit. Then we headed out for Juayua. One note that Jasmine had been sick and had missed the graduation. It was great that she felt like getting out for the afternoon and was much improved. We had a great turnout for our evening service and Manual Azucena gave the lesson. We had a class full of children, so Allison stayed to help me. One family that we had taken food too, came again to the class and the mom said she came back because her son wanted to come back to the Sunday school class! I was so excited about that. Since their youngest child takes a little care, the older daughter came to care for him. It was a great evening and we headed home with one last stop at Selectos.