Sweet
reunions! Since we typically spend the
entirety of Wednesday in Juayua, we headed out early to renew our
contacts. First, we went by Ricardo and
Joli’s because Lucky was recovering from Dengue Fever in their home. She was up and walking, but appeared really
thin and tired. Dengue Fever is called
the bone breaking disease because it is so painful that every bone in your body
feels like it is breaking. She had
visited the doctor in San Salvador and he said that she needed to go to the
hospital, but that if she did, she would die.
Her platelet count was dangerously low and fever very high. It was wonderful to see her improving, but it
broke our heart that she was having such a difficult time. She is in El Salvador to have four root
canals and crowns because the price is so much less than California, where she
lives. She is going to try to complete
the treatment next week in San Salvador and then return to the States. Then, we joined Cesar and went by Mr. Rivas,
but he was not at home. However, he was well from his bout with chikungunya. Next we stopped by to visit with Delmy. She is working on ‘Que Dice La Biblia?’
series…’What does the Bible say?’ and she had two lessons to turn in. That is exciting that she is diligent to move
along. Around the corner, we stopped by
to see Julia. She has been watching a
Bible overview series on DVD and we talked about her progress. She said that she was ‘coming along little by
little.’ Then, Dwaine and I went by to
see Jose and Kelly. Kelly was home and
she was in good spirits. That study is
Saturday, so we only visited for a bit.
She showed us pictures of all the Independence Day costumes she had
finished. It was close to 20. Next, we spent our lunchtime to check on
house hunting contacts. We ate lunch
with the Italian chef and he said we could come back to visit at 4 on Thursday
for one contact. Then, we stopped by
Coyito’s a lady who owns a little hostel and had helped us several times. She
said we could come back at 4 to see one house.
Some times in the past we were going to visit Mario and Sara on
Wednesdays. This is the family that the
man broke his leg in a bad fall. Cesar
said that Mario had to move near the Juayua waterfalls with his family for
recovery. He wants us to come to this
area with his wife to continue the study, so we will have to work on this. It is a more dangerous area, but we have
learned that the dangerous part is when you are on foot and we will be able to
be in our car. So we will have to plan
this. Next, we went to Ana’s with Regina
and Arnoldo. Ana had a bad cold and
headache. So did Regina. And, Eliza had a bad sinus infection. Everyone says this is the worst part of the
rainy season and many are sick. We had a
short study and then headed to Omar, Gisela and Emily’s. We wanted to visit for a few minutes. At four we went back to Coyito’s She said she would be in San Salvador on
Thursday, so she went out to ask about a couple of places. One place she talked about was where a
medical business was moving from at the end of the month, but we could not see
it. Then, there was a funny one. Some time back we had asked about one house
that was empty, but the family said that they were remodeling and were planning
for their own family to move in. Coyito knew
the owner and before we knew it, we were entering to see the house. The part that was funny, is that it was not
for rent, she only wanted to show off her handiwork and finished product. That was a disheartening tour knowing it was
not available. Then, we went back to
Julia’s to give her a ride to church, but she had company. The service was great, with Zuleyma, Regina’s
daughter, her baby, Daniel, and Aracely all being there. Zuleyma and Aracely have rededicated. This has created difficulty in the marriage of
Zuleyma, so keep her in your prayers. We
are prayerful that Aracely’s husband may also return to church as they had come
some ten years ago when there had been a church in Juayua. Arnoldo helped me teach the children and it
was wonderful to see them all.
Afterwards, we headed home.
Several dropped by for a visit once we got back to Ataco and it was a
blessing to be home again.
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