Friday, January 15, 2016

January 14, 2016

Hopeful.  This morning at 10 Charlotte had a meeting with Eliza to work on the children's classes so before that we had our usual morning of cooking, washing dishes and walking Wicket.  I dropped her off for her meeting then Cesar, Abi and I headed out to try to do some visiting.  First we went by Delmy’s but she was working again so we walked up to the mansion that is under construction to see if the caretaker was around.  He had said he was interested in studying the Bible and Charlotte and I had looked for him Tuesday morning but he was not there then.  Today we found him and talked for about 30 minutes.  Charlotte had said I could invite him for lunch and a study at our house tomorrow (Friday) but he said he also took care of another large house on the other side of town and had to work tomorrow.  He said he would come by the church building on Wednesday of next week and try to work out a time when we could get together.  Then Cesar and I went by the building and swapped the storage room and the room Charlotte, Eliza, and Linda had the kids in last Sunday.  They will now have the largest room of the 3 bedrooms so hopefully it will give them a little more space.  After that we stopped by William Rivas and had a good talk about the need for him to make a decision about becoming a Christian.  He was very serious and said he was strongly considering it but made no decision this morning.  After lunch Charlotte and I went back up to our old area to try to study with Wendy who had been out yesterday.  She was visiting her Aunt but her neighbor Reina was home and we had studied with her once before and she agreed to study again today.  She said that she had planned to visit our first service last Sunday, but she had planned to go with Wendy.  Since Wendy was out of town on Sunday, she didn’t go. We encouraged her to come and visit with her granddaughters this Sunday.  She also said that the cutting season was completed, so she would be home more for study.  We were excited to know that she had planned to come.  I think she is fairly close to Wendy and helps her a lot preparing to be a mother.  Then we came back home and had time for a short rest before heading to Raul and Anita's for our first large group in home study.  We had a good turnout but no visitors.  This week I had all my notes printed out for everyone so they could follow along better but I ended up just talking and so I asked them to read over the notes at home before the study next Thursday night.  When we ended Sister Ariceli who lives in the same subdivision as Raul and Anita said we could meet at her house next week.  It is neat to get to see members offering to have the meeting in their homes and it was neat to have it in a home.  I guess none of you have any experience with having a group study in homes of members but it is really a good idea. At night, we walked out into the city again for all the festivities.  We met a friend and he said that the fireworks will start at nine.  It was 8:45, but we didn't want to linger.  So we headed home, and enjoyed seeing a good number of them over our roof top.  Even Leanna got to see some on skype.  Tomorrow night is supposed to be the final parade and dancing.  We think it will be like Carnival.  




Fireworks!


Nice and high up!

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