We're back. At the end of
August we were back in the states for our first visit since leaving in
January. We stayed for a month and had a
wonderful time visiting with our families (including little Charlotte's first
birthday) and also a very encouraging time visiting with our spiritual
families. We got to go to several life
talks and speak at services at Central and Rock Hill. But, by the time a month had passed we were
really looking forward to getting back to our work in El Salvador and our
spiritual families here. We arrived back
on Tue. Sept. 22 and after spending all day Wed. renewing our contacts and
studies, we spent the afternoon Thursday looking for a house in Juayúa. At the
end of the day we decided on a house that is adequate but still temporary. It is small, doesn't have a water source in
the kitchen and no garage but at least we are not on the road every night
returning to Ataco. We got to start two
new studies in October. In one,
Charlotte is studying with a lady who helped us several times in looking for a
house. The other study is with our
current landlord. He is a really nice
fellow. He did not want a deposit or a
contract on our house and when we told him we were probably not going to take
the other house his is reconstructing, but would probably look for some other
place he was super nice about it.
Charlotte, Rachel and Linda held a seminar for Children's Bible class
teachers with about 80 people coming from 10 different congregations. Charlotte had the object lessons, games and
Bible themed snacks part and everyone raved about it. We got to attend two monthly preacher's
meetings in one month for the first time since there was a lot of preparation
for a big weekend on Nov. 7th. And 8th. We also attended our first El Salvadorian wake
and funeral which were very different from anything in the States except there
was a deceased person present. The
studies we had going before our return to the states are mostly continuing. One family that we had been studying with had
separated while we were gone, but we are continuing to study with each one separately. One study seems to be drawing to a close with
the lady refusing to make the changes in her life that she knows she
should. And our study with Nelson and
the one with Jose and Kelly and family still both look very promising and we
are praying for their decisions soon. We
are also getting back into door-knocking to find more contacts since we are now
in Juayúa full time. At the end of Oct.
we made the decision as a church family to change our meeting time for the main
Sunday service from 5 pm to 10:30 am starting Nov. 15th. Our number is growing and this will be a
better time for most everyone except that we will not be able to continue
attending in the mornings in Ataco as we have been every Sunday since we got
here. Also, October saw the beginning
stages of a new work in
Salcoatitán
which is only about 10 minutes outside of Juayúa and
we will be working closely with the families starting this work and they will
be helping us here also. They plan to
start meeting on Sundays the first of January and at least for a while to have
their services at 8 or 8:30 so that we can attend there and they can attend here.
On the last day of the month, Charlotte got to go to Santa Telca for a ladies’
class with Ricardo and Joli that had been in the plans since August. Lots happening and it is great to be back!
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