Beautiful Feet: October 30, 2015

Now we're cookin’. Today was a second preacher's meeting in the same month because next weekend is both the family seminar on Saturday and a huge area wide gathering all day Sunday. Ataco was the host congregation and since they have no real building at present and there is no parking much on the road to the Schucutitan meeting house we met at Entre Nubes. It is a large rustic restaurant on this side of Ataco and they had a really nice building in back where we could meet with lots of space and privacy. They served coffee and sweet bread and then lunch all for only $5 per person. We only paid $1.50 each and Ataco paid the rest since they were hosting. Most of the meeting was about getting ready for next weekend and a lot of time was spent counting heads and taking up money. After the meeting we borrowed Ricardo's truck and he took our car to his house. We headed out for Sonsonate and had 5 people riding in back and Charlotte and I in the front. It sure is fortunate that Ricardo's truck has a good tight canopy over the back because it rained much of the way to Sonoanate. After we dropped everyone off we went to Metro Centro. First we went to Curacao. They had a large selection of stoves but we were undecided so we also went to Omnisport which is also in Metro Centro. They had a really nice Whirlpool and it was a little more than a very similar stove in Curacao so I asked them if they would match the price and they said no that their stove was imported from the U. S. and the other one was not. We drove around for a little but found there was not much selection anywhere else in town and ended up coming back for the Whirlpool since Charlotte said she liked it better than anything else we had seen. We asked if they had it in a box and he said that was the only one. Charlotte said we should get some discount for taking the floor model but he said oh no because this way we could see that this one had no dents or dings and one in the box might get dropped and have dents when we got it and then we would have to wait while they replaced it. We gave up and took it. We had already stopped at Freund and gotten a new gas line and connection for the tank because I was not sure where the leak was in the old stove and that was only a few dollars anyway. While I paid, Charlotte went into the large Selectos in Metro Centro and got a few items. We ended up driving back in the dark but had no problems. I called Ricardo and he met us at our house with our car and helped me unload and then got his truck. Just as we arrived the rain started pouring again so we had to wait for it to slack some and still unloaded in some rain. I got it all hooked up with no problems and it all works great. Now we are cookin’. I cannot imagine money better spent with all the cooking that Charlotte does and all the entertaining we do. About 9:30 tonight Kelly and her two children knocked on our door. Their son Kiki was looking for something he could use as a Halloween outfit. Fortunately we still had the masks we had used to pretend to be crows at the children's retreat in May. They had gotten a new puppy that had very long and matted hair. We had a nice visit but they did not stay long. Kelly said they would be expecting us for the study tomorrow. Charlotte will be in Santa Tecla with Ricardo and Joli. She thought she was just going for the ride but Joli called after we got home and said Charlotte would be the speaker tomorrow so she may be up a while getting ready. At least it was our day off. We had joked with Noe at the preacher's meeting about trying to have a day off once a week and he laughed and said once a month would be amazing. We agreed.