It is incredible that we have been here 5 months and the Huntsville
group will be here in one week. The
month started with the first of 5 trips to the dentist in San Salvador for him
to work on Charlotte's root canal. Every
trip was really painful and just as the pain was getting better we had to go
back for the next visit. It has now been
a week since the final trip and Charlotte said her mouth still hurts some but is
gradually getting better. June 1 was
also the day Caleb and Lucky arrived. We
had a great week of visiting with Caleb concluding in our first ever experience
of Zip Lining. Caleb got to see everyone
he had hoped to and to spend extra time with special friends like Paulo and
Carlos and Linda and Ricardo and Joli.
June also saw an unexpected addition to our family. We are now the owners of a both sweet and
mischievous peek-a-poo (Wicket).
Throughout the month we continued to look for a house in Juayua to move to
but as the month ends we have looked at a few but are still no closer to having
one. We have gone back to visit some of
the new contacts we made in Ataco when the Franklin group was here and we also
got to spend a morning taking Carlos with us to meet some of them. We want to pretty much turn them over to
someone here because we are getting more and more contacts in Juayua and hoping
to move there. We are continuing our
studies with Rosaria as often as we can as well as with her step daughter-in-law
Natividad. Those have gone really well
and we were so thankful that on one of our trips to San Salvador we were able
to find a child's pool that would be usable for a baptism if either of these
ladies make the decision, as one cannot walk and the other is fairly afraid of
the water. Wednesday June 17, which is
father's day here, we went in the back of a crowded pick-up truck on very bumpy
roads to Santa Katrina Massahuat to take part in a special service for fathers
in which Cesar did the preaching. It was
quite an experience, but we survived it.
On June 20th. There was a new physical birth in our Juayua
church family as Zuleyma, the daughter of Regina whose home we meet in for
services, gave birth to a 9 lb. + baby boy, Danielito. As of this time mother and baby are doing
well. We did get to provide transport
for the family to see the baby the day after he was born and to bring baby and
mother home the following day. June 18th. Cesar and family left for
the States to attend a Latin American Bible conference as well as to visit and
preach some in Texas. We have gotten
reports that they are having a great time.
They get back on Sunday July 5th. And our group arrives the
next day. We have been continuing all
the Juayua meetings and studies on our own and all is going well though we are
bringing in visiting speakers for Sunday services. We also had more process with immigration
this month. They called on Monday 22nd.
And said we had to come on Tuesday morning even though we were already in San
Salvador for Charlotte's dentist visit.
This was our first time to have to go to San Salvador two days in a row
and will probably not be our last. When
we went they said that all the interview stuff the lady had done at our home in
May had been put with Dwaine's papers and sent to another dept. so the process
had to be repeated with Charlotte. We
interviewed in the immigration office for almost two hrs. and the man came to
Ataco on Monday June 29 to do the follow-up interviews. He even wanted to go out and visit where the
church here in Ataco meets as well as for us to e-mail him a list of the names
of the members. He kept saying how
wonderful it is that we are here and how they want to approve us but it sure has
turned out to be quite a process. Charlotte
and Lucky hosted an all night workshop on purity for the teen girls. With teachers, there were about 25 people in
our home. Charlotte had ordered the
Passport2Purity series and packed it full of lessons, crafts, skits and games. The
month ended on a super note with our first baptism in Juayua. Jose Ventura, the husband of sister
Rosalidia, was baptized after the Sunday night service on the 28th. Two of our English classes students had come
to the service as visitors and both attended the baptism which was in the back
yard of a large house that Raul takes care of.
Because of the uncertainty of the immigration process we went ahead and
got our tickets for our visit back to Huntsville for Aug. 21 to Sept. 22 so
that is less than 2 months away with our group coming for a week in July as
well as Clifton staying for a month. The
time has flown and the next two months will also so we will be seeing you all
soon.
Teachers and Teen Girls at Passport2Purity.
Teen Girls!
Getting ready for a baptism!
Jose Ventura's Baptism!
Jose & Charlie
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