Wednesday, August 19, 2015

August 17, 2015

Last Monday for a while.  The time is flying as always.  So hard to believe our last regular Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday have all come and gone.  We will be flying out this Friday, so that will certainly not be a regular day.  I started the day by running up to the Ataco bookstore to get some copies made.  The street in front of our house was jammed with vehicles on both sides with barely room for one vehicle to go down the street.  The garbage truck had to creep through with men directing on each side.  We never did know why but there were many more cars than normal.  I was going to Ahuachapan to Claro to get the phone and internet changed over from Wendy's name to ours.  Without a bank account you cannot get phone service in your own name and without a 1 yr. Visa you cannot get a bank account.  Fortunately, there was no one parked in front of our garage so with Charlotte coming out to direct me I was able to get the car out.  When I got to Claro the brother who works there and always helps us told me that you had to have your bank account for at least 3 months with at least a $250 deposit each month.  Then he said if the deposit was more than $250 each time that would be even better.  I thought that was a funny statement because it was so obvious.  The good news was that our current service is good till the 29th. Of October.  That should work out just right.  We were already going to leave some in our account before we head out on Friday because we don't want to bring it back to the States when we will need to bring back here when we return.  So that will cover August.  Then we will be back on September 22 and be able to deposit in Sept. so all we will need to do is deposit early on in Oct. and then go back to Claro to get the transfer.  At least we don't have to get something done now.  It took so long to get the visas oked that we could have had a problem.  When I got home we had lunch and headed to Juayua.  Our first study was with Mario and Sara and Charlotte took them a pan of Chicken and rice.  We have tried to take them some food most every time and we are not sure if anyone is going to continue that.  Mario did ask Cesar if he could take him to a September 1st. Doctor's appointment.  That will be good.  They seem to be really interested.  Then we went to Sister Anna's.  She sure was surprised to see us since we always come on Wednesday.  She seemed to be in good spirits and we had some laughs.  Our church family is helping her some with food from time to time and it was good to be able to give her that yesterday.  She always asks for prayers that her children will become Christians.  We wrapped up the day with an almost 2 hour study at the home of Raul and Anita.  Sister Rosalidia went and took her two kids and the 4 children had lots of fun in the yard while we studied.  Since we started the children's classes, the four children have become good friends.  Tati and Cesi are about the same age as well as Josue and Alex.  What a blessing to see them developing this friendship!  Eliza's father, Bro. Manuel Azucena was 75 on Sunday and the family was having a big gathering in Ahuachapan at Osvaldo's.  Cesar had missed all of it to that point and we had planned to get together at the end of the day to get him set on the Saturday English classes.  He said he would just follow us back to our house since it was on his way.  When we got there Charlotte asked if he wanted dinner and he said sure, guess he had already missed the group dinner.  We had a good dinner of left overs and enjoyed our visit and got all the English stuff done and he left about 8:30.  That was a full day.


Bible study at Raul and Anita's.
First time that Rosalidia came.


Rosalidia, Anita, Regina and Charlotte

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