Beautiful Feet: January 2, 2016

Don't want to be a statistic. We had decided to discontinue the Saturday English classes for the time being since we have been down to only 3 people now for quite a while. I wanted to bring everyone over for refreshments at our new house and to talk about that. I also wanted to get the car washed since it was filthy and we hope that it will stay cleaner now that we will mostly be in a paved area and have a garage. We worked around the house all morning other than a walk to the market and by Selectos. It sure is nice that everything is so close now. After lunch I headed out to the carwash and then on to wait at Regina's for everyone to arrive to bring them over. While I was waiting for the car to be washed the lady there gave me a current newspaper. I read an article that said there were 6670 homicides in El Salvador last year. That was 2758 more than in 2014. The worst month was August with 918 and that was the worst month on record in the history of El Salvador. It also said there were 35 homicides on New Year's Day, off to another good start. The sad thing is that the article also said how the government is very confident in their plan of action and how well it is working. The amazing thing is how peaceful it seems here in Juayua. All the violence is in and around San Salvador and that seems like another country sometimes. Anyway, Carlos did not show up so I brought Nelson and Arnoldo back over to our new house after passing by the new location for the church so Nelson could see that also. We just visited and talked and Nelson said he would like to continue studying the Bible with us as soon as the coffee harvest was over and he had more free time. He said that his family had moved from the home of his wife's family to the home of his father and that was very near our new house. About 2:45 I headed over to pick up Kelly and family for our Saturday study and so they could see the new house. When we got back Nelson was still there so we had dessert with them and he had some again. Then we all watched the film on the New Testament Church. At the end we offered to give them a ride home but they said they had planned to walk and Nelson said he had somewhere he needed to go but would be at the service in the morning. After service we went back up to the old house to skype with the kids. We only talked to Caleb and Clifton but got messages from Christina and Leanna. Sure will be good when we get back on the net. Hopefully at least by Monday or Tuesday all will be back to normal.