November 3, 2015

Early rising.  I got up early to work on several studies.  Dwaine arose soon afterwards.  We were both under the weather so it was good to have a morning to use on lessons.  First, was the marriage class for Wednesday on ‘submission.’  Thanks Allen Wright for your outline and ideas.  Second was to finish ideas for the children’s classes.  Arnoldo arrived in our house at 12 to help finish up that class and to have lunch with us.  He is teaching each Wednesday night while we are teaching the marriage class.  He offered to do this to help him overcome some fears of working in front of others.  For the afternoon, we studied with Sara.  Her son had come to service on Sunday and had really liked the children’s classes.  She said that she was trying to move to Santa Ana.  We encouraged her to come to the service too.  Afterwards I went to study with Socorro.  She was such a joy to study with.  She is always so friendly and helpful.  We completed the study and visited.  She is not attending a service now, so I am hopeful that she will come some time.  She opens her business on Sunday, so it might be a challenge for her to come.  While I was at the study, Dwaine and Cesar went to Omar’s to rent a van for Sunday.  We have enough space in our car and Cesar’s car for Saturday’s family workshop, but need to rent a van for the area wide services in Santa Ana on Sunday.  After they got that taken care of and I finished the study, Dwaine and I met up at home to get ready for a study with our landlord, Don Santos.  Dwaine had worked on a great lesson on “The History of Sin,” but I remembered he had a question on OT/NT divisions, so we both worked on that for a bit and shared that lesson.  He came for about two hours and said that when he had lived in the U.S., he had promised the Lord that he would go to church when he returned to El Salvador.  This a man who keeps his promises, so we pray that we will continue to study and the Lord will open his heart to obedience.  Afterwards, we skyped and we worked on lessons some more.  I stayed up to midnight getting my part finished.  Well, we are ready for Wednesday!