Beautiful Feet: October 19, 2015

He's alive, I tell you, he's alive. That is a line from an old Frankenstein movie. It poured down rain all night. I told Charlotte it would be really interesting to know how much rain fell just during this one night. Because of the danger of mud slides the schools and universities were all close on Monday throughout all El Salvador. We certainly did not go walking this morning. We started two weeks ago meeting every Monday at 9 with Carlos, Ricardo and Joli and Cesar to plan the church planting in Salcoatitan and the work here in Juayua. The first two meetings had been at Ricardo and Joli's house. They live on a dirt road and when I tried to return his truck after our move to Juayua, I almost got stuck. I called and asked if his road was passable and we decided it would be better to meet at our house this time. I called Cesar and he called Carlos. A little after 9 everyone arrived and Carlos brought Linda and the girls for the first time. We also got out our projector that Caleb and Della had given us while we were in the states. It worked great. We mostly talked about the wording of a letter to be sent to school masters in Salcoatitan and Juayua to ask them if we could meet with them about offering a series of classes on morals and English. We also decided to get a seal for the Juayua church so we could use it on our letters to the school masters in Juayua and when we needed it in the future. At the end of the meeting Sister Regina, Arnoldo, Kenya and Elizabeth came by. They had been up to visit with Zuleyma and baby because the baby had some shots and was not feeling well. They said he was better. They wanted to know if we were going back to visit the family in Salcoatitan that we had visited last week. They all wanted to go because they were good friends with the family. We decided we would go so that Carlos and Linda could also meet them. We also decided we needed to take both our car and Cesar's so we could get everyone. After lunch we met Cesar at Regina's and Arnoldo and Elizabeth rode with us and Regina and Kenya rode with Cesar. We met Carlos and family at the gas station in Salcoatitan. He said his small van was having cranking problems and he was having to roll it off to start it. They were parked up a little hill but had to roll pretty far back to get it going. I had thought we had agreed to park out at the road and walk to the house but when we got to the road Cesar headed on down it as did Carlos and family so we did too. We made it ok and parked with Carlos trying to park on a hill. As we approached the door to the house my phone rang. It was the people from Claro and they said they were waiting at the bus stop in Juayua to follow us to our house and install our internet. When we went in we found out that the ladies were not home but only one man. Charlotte and I headed on back to meet Claro and the others stayed for a little while. There were 2 men who worked on the installation and a lady who walked around the neighborhood and promoted Claro while the men worked. They were pretty efficient and all went well but of course they were not able to get our home phone working. Charlotte left about 3:20 for her first study with Succorro. The men tried very hard to get the phone working and finally they had to call Claro for me to speak with them and say I was happy with the work. The internet was working great so of course I was happy. We have only used our cell phones for calls since we got here anyway. About 5 minutes after they drove away a young man knocked on the door and asked if we had internet. I was pretty sure he had watched the installation so I said yes. He asked if he could have our password and I said no and he left. Then Jose walked over for a few minutes and we talked some. He said he was a little concerned about the location of the house we are talking about moving to because it is somewhat isolated. For Charlotte, I went to have my first study with Succorro. She is so amiable! She has a varied background with various churches, but she is not attending a church now. We had a good visit and study. About 4:15 I, Dwaine, headed out to meet Charlotte at Succoro's so that we could go to Raul and Anita's for the 5:00 study. On the way I ran into Cesar, Regina and family. They were just returning from the visit in Salcoatitan. He said they had a really hard time getting Carlos' van to start and had about 20 men pushing it in the end. At the study with Raul and Anita, Charlotte gave Anita some small gifts and we gave Raul a Bible because he did not have one. We studied about being under the old law vs. being under Christ's law. On the way home we had to stop by Selectos to get some items for dinner tomorrow night with our landlord. When we got home we were able to skype with Caleb, and then with Christina and then Leanna. We both stayed on the web doing some studying until 10:00 for me and about 11:00 for Charlotte. We are alive, I tell you, we are alive.