February 11, 2016

Marching along.  Days seems short on time to be about the studies.  There are just not enough hours in the day to have meetings, plan events, prepare studies, get ready for children classes, cook and so much more.  Studies are first priority.  Today was a beautiful day to have this opportunity.  First, Dwaine went out before breakfast to have his blood sugar tested.  We have both tried to work on our sugar intake so that we can get a reduction in our health insurance, especially since it is about to make a big jump due to Dwaine’s upcoming birthday.  He was a several points high on his sugar.  It was $3.50 to run this test and it came back just a few points over.  We had really cut out sugar our first month back, but it creeped up on us some this last month, we will try to renew efforts this last month.  His blood pressure had also been a little high before we left.  The only way to check that was to actually have a doctor’s visit so he walked out the front door and down a couple of buildings to the doctor on our street.  He was really nice and charged $10 for a chat and pressure.  There were a few incidentals….weight and listen to the chest too.  At any rate, we will forge ahead cutting the sweets.  Afterwards, Dwaine and I went to study with Celia.  She was feeling much better and was eager to study.  Next, we walked by Wendy’s to see if they had any news and they did not.  We are really in the dark as to her delivery status.  Reina was home, so we talked with her about studying.  She said she could study in the afternoon, so we planned to return at 2:30.  She was ready and we visited and studied with her.  As we left, we realized there were many police in the cemetery and a soldiers along the walk.  I asked the soldier what happened and he said a policemen of 26 years had been assassinated.  He was killed in another city.  At the same time his father was also murdered in another town.  When went home for a little bit and then left for a  Bible study at Mario and Seyli’s home….our old home.  They had a great turnout, maybe about 15ish people plus kids.  Jose and Kelly came and they volunteered to have next week’s meeting in their home!  That was exciting.  Seyli cooked quesadilla’s for everyone, but really all the ladies jumped in and helped.  At any rate everyone stayed around for a great visit.  After we returned home, Oscar came by to ask if we knew anything about Wendy.  That is actually amazing to us that he had no idea if his son had been born or not.  He has been working and Wendy’s phone has not been working.  She is in Ahuachapan and that is some distance away. He promised to keep us posted as we hope to go pick her up when we have news. 

Bible Study at Mario and Seyli's  home.