Beautiful Feet: June 30, 2015

Corona group. The group from Corona, California arrived in El Salvador yesterday and today was their first day of door knocking. Since we are preparing lunch for our group for 4 days next week and her UTI was still not gone, Charlotte decided to work at home this morning. She said it made her really sad not to be able to go with the group. She cooked a large pot of her cream cheese corn that everyone raved about as usual and when I came back home to get it at 11:30 she said she had not sat down once all morning. That made me feel pretty bad because I had mostly been sitting down in people’s homes. The door knocking was not far from our house and Lucky and I walked up to that area about 9. The group arrived about 10 minutes later and we were divided up into teams and interpreters. We had so many Spanish speakers we were able to have several small teams. I was with just one man and a teen girl. We only ended up visiting about 5 homes because everyone let us come in and sit and talk and study and pray with them. The last lady said she had 6 kids from ages 7 to 24 but she was home alone because they were all in school or working and she did not have much to do so we just stayed and talked and studied and prayed until time to go back for lunch. Her house was at the end of the road and when we came out the entire group was standing in outside. Bro. Noé from Turin was there and he said he would not be back in the afternoon and would really like to see Charlotte so I told him to come on by. When he got there he said he was not going to get to go to lunch at Hector’s so Charlotte fed him. They were visiting as I headed out. I thought I was running late but as I arrived in Apaneca the two vans were just turning off the highway. In the afternoon half the group went with Hector to the school in front of our house. That left us with a few folks and only 3 interpreters. I got a group of about 4 teens and ended up doing most of the talking. We visited a few homes but not too much happening in afternoon. When the men started setting up the canopies for the service there was still about 1 ½ hrs left so I invited all the girl and ladies to our house to rest and the teens practiced their skits. We had a good visit and then Charlotte and all the rest of us walked back up for the evening service. About 5 Edgardo called me to the back and said that Milton, a teen brother in the Ataco church, had a brother who had fallen off his roof today and broken several bones and was in the hospital in Santa Ana and that he needed someone to go with him to pick up family members who were at the hospital and bring them home. Bro. Fernando said he could go with us since I am still not very familiar with Santa Ana and it was also getting dark. We made it ok, though it rained on us off and on in both directions and there was a fair amount of water in the road in a few places. When we got there Bro. Fernando and I sat in the car and talked and waited while the young brother went in. He came back in about 45 min. and his mother and sister-in-law were with him. They said the man who fell was in really bad condition and were not sure how he was going to do. The only slightly funny parts of the trip were that I hit one speed bump at about 50 miles per hr. because I didn’t see it and when we got into Ahuachapan Bro. Fernando said well we made it. He lived there but the rest of us still had to go back to Ataco on very curvy roads at night. But we did make it, I dropped everyone off in Rosaria near their house and got home about 9. After a late dinner that I sure was thankful to get I went on to bed pretty early. One late night development. When Lucky and I returned home, I discovered a stink bug in the dish drainer. I used almost a half a can of deet on it. You see, Chega’s disease is caused by a species of stink bugs. I don’t think this was the one, but I sure didn’t want it in the house! Maybe we should be using that insect net we have?