February 2, 2016

Regifting.  Tuesday morning is meeting time for the Juayua and Salcoatitan.  For this week, agenda items seemed to go a little faster and we finished up about 11:30.  We talked about a one day medical brigade coming the week of Easter, but we will be in the State.  But the group will move on the opportunity.  Ricardo and Carlos and families had visited Santa Tecla and they reported on the work there.  We did decide that our entire meeting will be dedicated to the Huntsville campaign coming in July next Tuesday.  That will be helpful for the planning occurring in the States too.  I had wanted to go to Sonsonate afterwards because of looking for some hard to find items for the ladies’ event on Saturday.  Salcoatitan is on the way and since our meeting was in Salcoatitan this week, we decided to tag it on.  The study for Ana and her daughter, Sonja, was scheduled for 2 in the afternoon, so we had a little a deadline to get back.  We hit up Dollar City, Selectos in the mall and Selectos in town.  Sonsonate actually has three Selectos.  I was still a few items short in the end, but it was good to get most items.  We arrived home 5 til 2, and Seyli was waiting on me.  We headed out to Ana’s, but Sonja was working.  Her 10 year old daughter was caring for Ana, so Sonja may be out more.  Ana seemed down, so we tried to encourage her.  I changed what we were going to study to focus more on her needs.  Ana will probably never be able to walk again and with the loss of her daughter, she really suffers from depression.  When we finished, I headed on to Socorro’s.  She is always a joy to visit.  She is always working, but she said she would try to come to part of the ladies’ class.  Finally, we planned our study with Don Santos and family.  Dwaine prepared a study to answer a question that he had.  Last week they said they wanted to bring pizza and asked if there was any ingredients that we did not like.  We couldn’t think of anything.  Later in the week, we thought neither one of us liked anchovies.  Dwaine walked by to mention this and the word for those little fishes was different that their translation for anchovies….it is sardines.  Anyway, they thought maybe we didn’t want pizza, so they brought fruit and sweet bread.  Then, we had a full meal prepared because of our no show the previous day.  So we heated it up and it was an enormous meal….regifting the meal.  They stayed a little later than usual and we ended with hopes of seeing them tomorrow night at the Wednesday night service.  While that may be the end of the night for some….I went on to help Leanna with a Physics’ lab and then worked on Sunday school planning for some ladies coming on Wednesday for some idea brainstorming.  So, I went to bed a little after 2.  There just aren’t enough hours in the day!

Don Santos, Sonja and Jimmy for dinner!