Friday, August 7, 2015

August 5, 2015

Last full day for Clifton so we filled it.  Wednesday are always long days.  We left for Juayua at 9:30 and got gas on the way because it had gone down recently and we wanted to be ready for Thursday and taking Clifton to the airport.  We got to Cesar's about 10 and after a few minutes visiting we went on to Mr. Rivas and had a study with him then on to study with Julia.  She had dropped a brick on her foot and it looked pretty bad but she was walking ok.  After the study we made an appointment to come back at 2 so she could go with us to look at a house she knew about that was for rent.  We went to lunch at the small cafe run by the Italian chef who also worked nights at the restaurant our group had gone to.  The food was good but there is a big celebration going on all week in El Salvador with schools out and lots of people in all the towns, even Ataco.  Anyway the little restaurant was right beside the main area of crowds and celebration complete with a lady singing in person very loudly.  The food was good but there was no possibility of conversation.  After lunch we went back by Cesar and Eliza's for a short rest then went to get Julia to go look at the house.  It turned out to be one room that was to be rented for business space and was beside a car wash.  Then we went to look at a new house that was just down the street from Regina and Pedro's.  It was pretty nice but had only one bedroom and would not work for us but Cesar and Eliza were interested in it because they also have to find a new place by the end of September.  Then we went over to Sister Ana's.  She was having quite a lot of pain so we did not have a long study.  Then Charlotte, Clifton and I went to study with Omar and his sisters, Gisela and Emile.  We decided when we got there that we would just visit for a short time since they were really busy from all the people being in town for the festivities.  They gave us a frozen drink like a popsicle, one was guava and the other was papaya, and they were sprinkled with hot chili peppers and we were not able to handle them so we all got a laugh out of that.  Omar asked about the passage in Isa. about 7 women clinging to one man.  This led to after talking about that passage to going to the passages about elders being the husbands of one wife and not only to talking about God's intended plan for marriage but also to teaching about the New Testament Church and about an hour study.  Then we went over to see if Mr. Rivas and Julia could attend the 5:00 study.  Mr. Rivas was ready but Julia decided to pass because of her foot.  We had a good study and class and Charlotte had several students.  Nelson came and we reconfirmed our study time for Saturday.  After the class I asked Cesar did he know how to pass through Sonsonate to go to Santa Katrina and Mr. Rivas offered to go with us to show us the way.  We need to go Saturday because Charlotte is doing a seminar for them on teaching children's classes.  The preacher there is his uncle and Mr. Rivas said he had not seen his uncle in 30 yrs.  Conveniently it is not far out of our way at all to pick him up and a chance to talk more.  We had a good trip home and Clifton got packed to get ready for an early departure.  We had thought it was a mid-day departure but Charlotte fortunately decided to check and his flight is actually at 8:30 so we decided to try to leave at least by 5 am. 


Pedrito (now going by Arnoldo) with beans growing in his backyard.


Studying King David

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