Friday, December 18, 2015

December 16, 2015

Great study, missing in action and night of prayer.  Dwaine and I went our separate ways.  Dwaine and Cesar went to hand out the last of the invitations for our breakfast for the ladies for Monday morning.  They also went to our regular studies.  Mr. Rivas was out and would not be back in time for the evening service.  Delmy studied and said her granddaughter had pneumonia.  Dwaine said she seemed a little distracted at first, but as the study developed, she seemed to focus on the topic because it was something that she had questions about.  Next, they stopped by Julia’s but only to say hello.  I left out at the same time with Suleyma because we wanted to study with Wendy.  Even though the distance was short, we drove so Suleyma would not have to carry Danielito so much.  Wendy was so eager to study!  It was exciting to see her interest.  She had some specific questions and we also had a planned study.  She wants to come to church with her husband.  He was working, so she said that she would talk with him and then pass by our house before Sunday.  We are praying this will be a go.  They are not regularly visiting a church and neither have been baptized.  Since she is due in February with their first child, we talked a lot about bringing this new baby up in the Lord.  We have not met her husband and we are prayerful he will have an interest too.  Afterwards, I asked if Suleyma had time to go by and visit Socorro.  It had been out of character of her not to be at her hostel on Tuesday for our study, so I wanted to check on her.  Sure enough, she had fallen on Monday and broken her arm.  She had been at the doctor all day on Tuesday so she could not call me.  It was her right arm and she is right handed.  She will have to go back to the doctor in January and hopefully we can take her to Sonsonate.  She still wanted to come to our breakfast, so we will plan to pick her up, along with Regina.  Time to serve again.  She is in her 70’s and was so cheerful and laughing with us.  I know she was in pain and has lots of concerns.  Keep her in your prayers.  After lunch, we kept our regular visits.  The first was sister Ana and she was in one of the best spirits we had seen her in for a long time.  She read some verses out loud from her new Bible and she sang along with all the songs.  That was a blessing.  Next we went to visit Mario.  Sara was working.  He is optimistic about becoming a Christian, but he still has some things he needs to do before finalizing that decision.  Dwaine and Cesar had passed an empty house in their door knocking so we tracked down someone who had some details.  The owner is out, but will be in town on Saturday, so we plan to go by and talk then.  It is in the area where we have so many contacts.  Next, Dwaine and I had out last class on marriage.  We talked about the spiritual goals for a marriage, using the book, The Sacred Marriage.  It was a nice wrap-up and we took some cake to share afterwards.  Through the day, Leanna had not been feeling well and when we got home, we all talked and she decided to go to the emergency room.  She was having trouble with feeling in her hands and feet and some in her face and we thought it might have been a result of a fall she had some time back or a side effect of a medication she was taking.  Not being there is hard during a time like this.  Christina met her and stayed with her until about 4 a.m.  Her tests came back good, but they wanted to keep her one more day.  They decided to possibly just follow-up with a neurologist soon as the doctor in the ER suggested.  It sure made for a long night for everyone.  I stayed up until about 3 working on English for our last day of classes on Thursday and finally rested with the computer beside me.  By then, she had her main tests results.  We ask for prayers for Leanna.  We are blessed to have children that help each other and we pray for their rest too, especially Christina.


Leanna smiling at ER so mom and dad won't worry so much.



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