Beautiful Feet: July 19, 2015

Cake anyone? Yes, I could say there was another earthquake, but we didn’t feel itJ. There’s probably enough of that. While I usually stay after church in Shucutitan for the teen girls, we decided to have all the teens over to the house for lunch since Clifton is here. I think about 25 came. It was funny because during Saturday night the electricity went off. I cooked a big batch of frijoles in the crock pot, so it went a long time without cooking. I tried them on ‘high’ and they seemed to be good by lunchtime. Dwaine cooked up some hot dogs and we had plenty. It was good to have so many over, but our apartment house isn’t really designed for big crowds. Everyone left not too long after lunch, so we rested a little bit. We left for Juayua a little early because we wanted to buy a birthday cake for Abi’s first birthday. First, we went to Anthony’s….the biggest bakery in Juayua. But, because it was the weekend festival for eating, they were out. Next, we passed a smaller bakery and they did have cakes, but only small. At least we had a ‘recourse’ if we couldn’t find anything else. We went through the Dispensa, an offshoot of Walmart, but they only had small cakes too. By now we were running out of time, so we hit one more place….Selectos of course. They had one big cake left trimmed in pink and traditional fruits on top….perfect. Dwaine and Clifton took the cake and walked over to Sister Regina’s and Brother Pedro’s. Pedrito and I went to pick up Kelly and her two children. Just as we were loading up, Jose arrived from San Salvador. Kelly’s daughter, Kelly….also called Nicole, had on a really pretty dress. In just a moment, he was ready and we all went to church. Kelly’s daughter, Kelly….also called Nicole, had on a really pretty dress. Kelly, the mother, said she had made this. I asked where she got the material and she said that she bought material in Sonsonate. I asked if she could take me some time and -she said yes! I can’t wait for this…..love looking at material, but so much more to develop a friendship. Omar and Gisela from English class came as well. And, Nelson came also. So we had 7 visitors! Eliza parents came, so Mr. Azucena preached a really good sermon. Then, afterwards we had cake for Abi. Everyone stayed, visitors and members. There was just enough cake and the fellowship was great. Regina said afterwards that her sister was sick in the hospital in Ahuachapan, so we planned to visit Monday morning. Awhile back, we used to see her on our street corner selling clothes. She had lost her house of 30 years and was just renting. She wants to move to Apaneca close to her mother and worship with us. We are in prayer for her. She has bronchitis. We also got to talk to Nelson about studying. We are going to try to come an hour early on Saturdays to study with him before English class, so we will start that study with him next week. We are also planning to stop by our three English students that have visited and see if we might can start a study with English using the Bible with them next week. They said they usually buy food for their shop early in the week, so we will stop by Wednesday. What a day! We almost can’t keep up, but we know God will provide the time and energy for his kingdom to grow.