Beautiful Feet: December 4, 2015

Long distance for preacher's meeting. Today, the monthly preacher's meeting was in Santa Tecla, which is just outside San Salvador. They are not really in our area but both Hector and especially Ricardo and Joli have been working with them for quite a while now. This is the congregation that Charlotte spoke at when she went with Ricardo and Joli and they had the flat from the gangs on the way home. It was good because Charlotte got to reconnect with some of the ladies she had met that day. We had to leave out about 7 am and pick up Cesar. We were supposed to meet Ricardo at the gas station in Salcoatitan at 7:30 to follow him since neither we nor Cesar knew how to get there. We arrive at the station about 7:20 and when he did not show up by 7:30 we called and he had forgotten to wait for us. Fortunately he was able to wait for us beside the road as we entered Sonsonate so we followed him the rest of the way. The facility was nice but was open at one end which was nice today because the wind was blowing and it was sunny. They had just built new bathrooms and they were the nicest ones I have seen at any church here so far. There were only about half as many preachers as usual because of the long distance to get there. When we finished at 12:15 lunch was ready. We mostly talked about plans for the next year and the purpose for the preacher's meeting. After lunch we took advantage of being in San Salvador to go to immigration to change our house address again. We got the same lady as when we moved to Juayua in September so we were joking about moving again so soon. After immigration we went by Wal Mart and amazingly spent less than $20.00 because they did not have what we were looking for and we did not need much else. We did find a pharmacy that had Charlotte's synthroid and we got another 3 month supply. After that we stopped by a mall that had a branch of the DMV where we could renew the car registration since it is done by birth month and Monday is Charlotte's birthday. However when Charlotte handed they everything they said no taxes were due until next year. So we celebrated by getting some ice cream at the mall. It was the first we have had since getting back in September and it sure was good. We also stopped by the Bible Society bookstore to get some new children’s teaching material that Eliza had recommended. We found an inexpensive but nice looking copy of Dios Habla Hoy (God Speaks Today) an easy reading modern language translation I had found on the net and really liked. We also got a nice large print Bible for Sister Ana because she said she could read but had trouble seeing the words. She had not asked for one but we have been really blessed lately and had a little chance to pass some on. The traffic was really terrible all day and people seemed much more aggressive than usual. I was in almost constant fear of being ran over because people were almost constantly about to run over us. We had a good trip back but were really tired when we got home. As we approached Salcoatitan we saw Mr. Rivas walking beside the road and were able to stop and give him a ride to his house which was really good because he said he would come to services again tomorrow night and he and Cesar and Eliza are coming to our house for dinner Sunday night. One funny note, I noticed a nice looking Honda Accord that said for sale on the back window and I mentioned to Cesar that it was 2 door. He said they call that anti suegra here (anti mother-in-law) I thought that was pretty funny.