Beautiful Feet: January 9, 2016

Night of parties! While we planned to have Jose and Kelly and family for dinner and had lots of cooking to do, first we had some arranging to do at the church and a study scheduled. Dwaine headed for the church building and I went to Suleyma’s because she was going with me to Wendy’s to study. When I arrived, Suleyma was very upset. Danielito, her son of almost 7 months has been teething and having an upset stomach for several weeks. She said that the last two days he had a fever of about 104. That is quite high and she had gone to the doctor yesterday. He said he thought he had an inflammation or infection in his stomach and gave a list of medicines for him. She had not been able to get these. So, I told her I would go by Wendy’s and reschedule the study for Wednesday and I would see if I could locate the meds. So, I walked to the Wendy’s alongside the cemetery and she was home. She said the change would work and she and Oscar were planning to come to church on Sunday morning. Next, I went by the church to see if Dwaine was finished and tell him of the changes. He still had errands to run, one of which was to take a borrowed ladder back to Don Santos. He needed our car, so I drove Cesar’s. That worked fine, but when I got to the pharmacy, there was little parking because of the festivities. I parallel parked along Selectos, but there was a large coke truck in front of me and I really didn’t have room to pull forward enough. It made the parking a slow process because especially because he had no power steering. The pharmacy didn’t have the meds, so I headed to another pharmacy. I knew parking would be difficult, so I found a spot near Omar’s. Emily was at home and she said that she would walk with me to the pharmacy. They had all the items that Danielito needed, so I was able to take these to Suleyma. We had a prayer and she started him on the meds. By the time I got back to the church building it was time for lunch. Although, I had cooked some this morning, it was time to finish up for our dinner ‘party!’ I went to pick up everyone, and Jose was not home. He was painting an owl on a bedroom wall for a child. He had been painting all day and thought his job would take two days to finish. So, we missed him. However, Kelly, Kiki and Nicole all came. We did the study first and then had dinner. They all planned to come to our first service and it was good to have them. Kelly said that ‘little by little,’ ‘poco a poco’ was learning about Christ. It was a good study. Afterwards, we were afraid driving would just be too hard through town so we decided to walk them about half way home and see the Juayua ‘party! Wow, there was so much food about, all fixed so nice on plates. There were also so many people. At one time we passed a line of about 30 police and soldiers coming out to patrol the city. After about an hour, they headed on home and we did as well. Even though, the sound systems were not immediately outside our door, it was very loud. Little did we know that our third ‘party!’ would last the rest of the night, loud music until 3 and then, the taking down of a booth outside our bedroom window that sold candies from 3 to 4:30 and then the construction of another booth outside our bedroom window from 4:30 to 6. What a night….again!