Thursday, March 31, 2016

March 30, 2016

Picking back up.  We were back in mode quickly.  We had a twofold mission for the morning, giving out invitations for the ladies’ event on Saturday and renewing our studies.  We picked up Cesar and Dwaine and I stopped by to visit with Kelly and Nicole for a few minutes.  Their kittens had really grown! We had brought back some router attachments and a cord for a DeWalt motor Jose had and Kelly said it worked great.  She even showed us a little evidence on the kitchen table.  We joined with Mario and Seyli and split into our groups.  Seyli and I went straight up the road from Kelly.  We were giving invitations and visiting with friends.  Alba lived at the end and her youngest girl, Jacqueline, seemed to have the same cold….flu that we have had.  We planned a study for Friday.  Afterwards we headed to Julia’s.  Seyli and I studied for about an hour with her and she was glad Dwaine and I were back from our visit.  I really encouraged her to come to our Wednesday night class at 6 and she said she would.  Next, we headed up to the cemetery trail to give invites.  We caught many people at home.  Briseida was home and we visited for several minutes.  While I had talked to her several times about studying, we always had a hard time catching her at home.  Since she was there, we set up a time for Friday afternoon.  On down the trail, Wendy was home and we visited again with her family.  Last on the trail was Reina and she said we could start back studying on Thursday.  Wendy and Reina both said they would try to come to service Wednesday night.  The only person I missed on the trail was Esperanza.  I had just met her before we left, and she said we could come and visit.  Her son was home and he said he would tell her we came by.  Lunch break came and we thought Arnoldo might come for lunch, but he never came.  We had not clearly communicated, so we will just have to work on next week.  I skyped with Leanna about a lab she was doing and then we rested about 30 minutes.  At 2:45 Cesar came and Dwaine and he left to go visit Sister Ana.  I left to go to Socorro’s.  It looked really rainy and I had bought an umbrella in the States so that we could have a good quality one here.  I thought I might try it out real quick, but alas it wouldn’t close.  So much for the quality thing and it might be a little far for returns.  Anyway, Socorro was home and she had really missed our times together…as well as me.  I took her a picture of the three of us in a nice frame and she was delighted.  She said her sister who lives in the States would arrive for a two week visit.  That was great.  Finally, we were heading to our Wednesday night study.  To our delight, both Amelia and Julia came!  That was a tremendous blessing.  We had a house full of people, adults and children.  It is a blessing to return.  When we arrived home after taking Regina and family home and a stop at Selectos, I rested until bedtime and then rested some more.  Dwaine worked on blogs and a lesson before retiring.  Dwaine- Mario, Cesar and I handed out some invitations for the ladies event and then had a study with Delmy, we studied the difference between the old and new covenants and though she always shows lots of interest she is very resistant to making a decision and she always works all weekend.  Next we walked up to study with Don Rafael.  He was sitting on his porch.  During our study he said he was baptized in the church when he was 25, he is 67 now.  He said he still felt the Church was the closest to the Bible but took issue with us not using instruments in worship.  He said he would attend on Sunday because his health would not permit him to come in the evening.  We plan to study more with him next week about the music issue.  During our study with Sister Anna we told her about Rafael and she wanted to study about why we do not use instruments also so we did.  She was in good spirits.  In the evening service Carlos taught from Acts and as Charlotte said we had a really good turnout.  

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