Beautiful Feet: December 27, 2015

Hunting in El Salvador. Dwaine had planned to go into the woods with Jose at 6 a.m. He was hoping to spend a little time with just Jose. Just before 6, Nicole knocked on the door and everyone was outside waiting to go on the walk in the woods. We thought at first it was just a sendoff, but everyone went on the outing. It was cold, and everyone was wrapped up. They were only gone for an hour, and Dwaine said they had at least one really steep hill to climb. To some disappointment Dwaine said that he didn’t really see any wildlife. While Dwaine was gone on his hunt, I was cooking up a storm. I was trying to finish the majority of my cooking for our team dinner this evening. I was also trying to cook the ‘empty tomb’ with no bake cookies and green-dyed coconut. About the time I was finishing up, Dwaine arrived back home. He told me of his travels and I was about done cooking. So, we finished up getting ready for service. I was teaching and Eliza helped me out. Regina had several members of her family to come, so the service was full. They did announce that we are moving ahead with moving the church to a new location where most of the work has been going on. Salcoatitan is starting at their new location on January 3^rd, so we are going to start January 10^th. When we headed home we saw that workers were already painting. Starting on the 10^th will give us time to hand out invitations in the area. Several people who have come to our events have said they will come when we have the church close by. We are excited about the prospects. I finished the cooking for our evening meal at Ricardo and Yoli’s and then we both got a rest. Yeah! We arrived at the team meeting at 6. We had two visitors from Santa Tecla, Ricardo and Yoli, Carlos and Linda and Cesar and Eliza and us. We stayed on until about 10 and it was a great evening of fellowship. We have been very thankful for the team, for all of the group is very visionary and have helped us move forward in the community much more than we have thought possible. We pray we are likewise helping them. It is exciting to think of the prospects and plans God has for us in the upcoming year.