Beautiful Feet: September 28, 2015

A moving experience. We stayed up till about eleven Sunday night packing up for the move and started again about 6 am on Monday. We were expecting Cesar and Jose about 8:30. I got everything done that I could find and was anxious for their arrival with the truck. At 9 I called and Cesar said “We are in Apaneca” which is about 10 min. away. But when he arrived he was alone. Unless he had a frog in his pocket which I forgot to ask about. I was pretty distressed. It was supposed to start raining about noon, he was late because he had to wait for a worker to do some repairs in the house they had moved from before he turns in the key on Wed. And we were short one man, Jose had had an accident on a bicycle after we talked to him Sat and was unable to make it. We had to make four trips on Ricardo’s truck because it had a metal frame and a tarp over the back that restricted us to about 5 ½ ft. of height. We were mostly fortunate on the rain. On the second trip we got everything loaded and the tarp all in place because the rain looked imminent and as we were returning to Juayua it poured down but everything stayed dry. When we arrived in Juayua each of the first 2 trips Jose and his son came over and helped unload and on the second time it was raining but I wanted to unload anyway because we had so much yet to do so they did not come back after that time. Kelly and her daughter, Nicole, also came over helped unpack the kitchen items. Charlotte had lunch ready for us in Juayua at the new house on the second trip. We had loaded the trunk and back seat of the car before Cesar arrived and on the first trip I drove the car and she held Wicket and Cesar drove the truck. Wicket was pretty content sitting in Charlotte’s lap for the trip. Charlotte stayed the rest of the day in Juayua while Cesar and I went back and forth to Ataco. From Charlotte, about 30 minutes after Cesar and Dwaine left, Regina, Zuleyma, Kenya, Arnoldo, and Danielito came by for a visit. They stayed for about 4 hours and I took Regina and Arnoldo home after dark. We just visited because there wasn’t really anything they could do to help put things away. Off and on, workers came by trying to get the water going. In the end, they got bathroom water turned on, but not the outside sink and washer. From Dwaine, we were scheduled to have a study with Raul and Anita at 5 but had to call and postpone until another day. We got back to our new house with the last load at 5:30 and it was about 7 by the time we finished unloading. One of the funniest events of the day for me was that when we helped Cesar and Eliza move into their first house in Juayua we found out that night they were directly beside a Pentecostal church with loud services and preaching. I had told Cesar I was so sorry. The church had moved up the street while they were living there and are now located just past the house we moved into. As we were finishing they began evening services and were very loud. I told Cesar it was his turn to say “I’m sorry Brother”. Cesar had left his car at Ricardo’s when he picked up the truck and we were without water at the new house while the owner was having a sink put in for us. So on the last trip we stopped by and got his car because his keys to the old house were in the car and it was just down the street so we were going to go down there for the bathroom. About 8 Charlotte and I took the truck back to Ricardo’s. When I tried to go up his road I got stuck because the rain had made his dirt road into mud. I finally got it out but they were not home so I threw the key inside the gate. Charlotte had waited in the car back down the road and I decided the only safe thing to do was to back the car down to the main road in the dark and the rain. We made it ok and then we ran by Selectos to buy a jug of water and a couple of other things we needed. Then we made the 3 minute drive back home!!!