Three short weeks. We headed
out this morning about 9:30 after a short visit in our house with Cesar to talk
about some things we needed to bring up for consideration by our Juayua family. First, we passed by the home of Mr. Rivas
whom we have not seen now for a long time.
Last week his mother said he was in bed with chikungunya. Today she said he had gotten better enough
that he was not at home. Then we stopped
by Delmy's but she was at the clinic getting some medicine so we left some
cookies Charlotte had made and said we would check back. The only one left for the morning was Julia
and we had a final study with her on her need to become a Christian. At times she seemed to be considering it but
in the end was just unwilling to pay the cost of the commitment. Charlotte invited her for dinner at our house
on Thursday night and she said she would come.
After lunch we went by the school in Juayua to meet with the
director. This time he was in and
favorably receptive to our teaching the classes but said that there would be no
room available until Monday Nov. 30th. And that will give us only 3
short weeks of classes- just 6 with each group of students so it will most
definitely be only an introduction. We
had stopped by Omar's house to say we needed to change our study with them to
tomorrow and they said that was fine and they would come at 6 today for the
class on marriage. We said we could
swing by to get them on our way. Then we
went to Regina's house and fortunately everyone was home because we wanted to
have a meeting about the items we had discussed with Cesar. First, we now have some people coming to
services from out of town and it is not good for them to have to go home in the
dark. Also some of our contacts have
said they would like it better if our services on Sunday were in the
mornings. We settled on 10:30 and will
discuss this with the group tonight and again on Sunday night and begin the new
time on Sunday Nov. 15th. So
this Sunday will be our last time in Schucutitan. That sure is hard to imagine. Then we talked about looking for a place for
the church to meet. Regina and Pedro
said their home was always available and we talked about how wonderful it was
to have such a strong core family and place to meet and that we did not have to
be in a rush but that we would keep our feelers out in case anything happens to
come available. We also talked about
opening an account for the contribution and it was decided that Pedro and Cesar
would do this next week so we at least can begin to have a good handle on how
much we have available to spend in rent.
Then we went to Sister Ana's and had some songs and prayers. Our meeting with Regina's family had taken a
while so we had to make this one shorter but at least we got to bring her some
food to help them out. Charlotte and I
ran back by our house and got things for our class. Then we stopped by Julia's but she had family
as usual and would not come. Then we
stopped by and picked up Omar and Emile.
This class was our second in the series on marriage in the material we
had gotten from Alan. Charlotte just happened to have some regular candles and
some that would re-ignite after being blown out and we ended the class with the
illustration that when the winds of difficulty come you can let your candle of
love and commitment be blown our or keep coming back. We let Emily blow out the regular candle and
Omar the trick one since they were sitting next to each other. We had lots of fun with Omar, joking about
how his sister had more breath since his candle kept flaming back up each time
he blew it out. Then everyone got to
have cupcakes. And everyone was in
agreement with the time change.
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