Beautiful Feet: December 8, 2015

Today we had our Monday meeting with Ricardo, Carlos and Cesar on Tuesday because of the classes in the schools. It was a good meeting. We planned the party for each school to finish the English and morals classes next week and we talked about the next event for Juayua and Salcoatitan. Ricardo suggested we have a breakfast just for the ladies of the community. Carlos said he would rather it be for the whole family in Salcoatitan but we decided it would be good if it were just ladies here in Juayua. We are having the last English and values classes next Thursday Dec. 17^th. In both schools. We are going to combine the classes for the last 30 minutes and have refreshments at each place and in Juayua we are going to give out the certificates of class completion at this little party. In Salcoatitan there are some other summer classes and the director there wants to have a combined party for all the students and give out the certificates for Salcoatitan at that time. So that will be on Friday Dec. 18^th. Then on Saturday morning, Dec. 19^th. We will have the breakfast in Salcoatitan. Then on Monday Dec. 21^st. We will have our breakfast event for the ladies here in Juayua. The next day we will hold the event we had here in November for ladies and children in Turin in the afternoon. Then we will have our regular week of activities here in Juayua and cap it all off with an end of the year dinner for our team at the home of Ricardo and Joli on Sunday Dec. 27^th. Then on Wednesday December30th. We move into our new house. And on Sunday Jan. 3^rd. Services begin in Salcoatitan. It was decided they would meet at 4 pm on Sundays at least for the first while and their midweek service will be on Thursday night. This will make Sundays much better for us than if they meet in the morning before our service and we should also be able to attend there on Thursday nights. That will mean that the only night we do not have a study at someone's home or in our home or do not have a service will be on Friday nights. Surely we can find something to have on that one night. Ha. After lunch Charlotte went with Zuleyma and Arnoldo to study with the lady who we had visited Saturday morning but was busy then. They also went to visit a lady who lives across the street from Zuleyma. I stayed at home because we had received a Facebook message from Bro. Mario Lara that he and his wife were ready to talk with the landlord of our house about moving in when we move out at the end of Dec. They arrived just before 2 and we rode down to the hardware. Don Santos was very gracious as always, he said thought he did not know them that he knew me and that was good enough for him and they came to an agreement in about 10 min. Then we went around to the restaurant where his family was waiting because they had some people with them who had not seen the house yet and wanted to. After they left and Charlotte came back we dropped Zuleyma, Arnoldo and Elizabeth off at Regina’s house and Charlotte had her study with Socorro. They studied baptism and Socorro said she would need to think about it this week. I went from Socorro’s down to the place where we had seen a sign for a veterinarian. Wicket has had problems with her ears since we got her and the medicines I have been able to find have not helped much and she whines and scratches a lot. It was a small cluttered (junky) room and he laid a board on a chair for me to set her up on and used a simple magnifying glass to look in her ears. He said they did not have the ear mites here which amazes me and said she has an ear infection. He gave me some drops for her ears and then he gave her a shot for pain and charged $10.00 He also recommended a special soap he wanted $5.00 for and I bought it at a corner vet supply for $3.50. We will see how she does. I walked by the new house and told the new landlords we had decided to use our refrigerator and stove and ask if they could store theirs and they said that was fine. She showed me the inside of the house. They had pretty much moved everything out and finished all the painting. It looked good but bare. I think our small furnishings are going to be somewhat lost in the much larger spaces until we get used to it. I walked on home and Charlotte arrived about 5. We skyped a while with Leanna while Charlotte was making dinner, she had gotten some good news about her grades and finals and was really happy. About 6 our landlord, his wife and son arrived for their weekly study. We are going through a film series on the history of the Bible and afterward we had a good discussion and some carrot cake Charlotte had made for her birthday. Just before they left the lady saw a scorpion crawling across our living room floor. Charlotte said she hoped we survived until we move. We shall see.