Beautiful Feet: November 8, 2015

Area wide in Santa Ana. Sunday was a big meeting of the western churches. About 10 churches were represented with 600 adults and about 150 children. It was a great time of fellowship and excellent lessons. We left at 6:30 on a rented van. It was our first time to rent a van, but we had about 14 people going and there was not enough room for everyone in the two cars. It was a smooth ride and we arrived a few minutes after 8 for an 8:45 meeting. Dwaine and Arnoldo were supposed to be there by 8:30, to help assist with the Lord’s Supper. The meeting was in a pavilion that was a fortified fort. Soldiers were practicing drills off and on all day. For the morning, we listened to the lessons on the family, which were well organized with a great speaker. It was a bring-your-on lunch and several did not bring anything. There were several shops nearby, so everyone had plenty. After lunch, Dwaine, Arnoldo and I taught the 12-13 year old children’s class. We had about 40 minutes. Kenia and Lisbeth followed, but it was already almost 3, and everyone wanted to end on time. So they only had about 15 minutes. We loaded up afterwards to head back to Juayua. The van driver was probably in his early 20’s and he just went on and on that I reminded him of his grandmother. While I am proudly a grandmother, there was a little bit of difference between my one year old Charlotte and the age of this man. We laughed and laughed and again decided it was just my ‘kind face.’ Ha! We got back at 4 and were all exhausted. We did not have our 5 o’clock service since everyone had been to church all day. Next week will be our shift to our morning service, so that is neat. Dwaine and I came home to rest and then worked on our marriage lesson. We set up a power point lesson to change things up a bit. We are trying to have a different style of lesson each week.