Beautiful Feet: April 13-18, 2016

Charlotte mentioned today that we have not done a blog since last Tuesday and today is Monday. We have gotten so busy and the hours and then the days fly by and to some degree they are becoming somewhat the same routine. Every day we have morning and afternoon studies except for Monday mornings when we have our leader's meeting for Juayua-Salcoatitan and on the weekends we have event activities. Charlotte said she has been taking less pictures because there are not many new things to take pictures of. Anyway we have decided to sometimes post a few days together. Charlotte has had so much going on since we got back with the ladies' event here the first Saturday after our return, teaching the Sunday school teacher's seminar in Santa Ana, meeting with Eliza for planning the Sunday school long term program, teaching the ladies class in Ataco Friday, as well as had a meeting on Saturday morning to plan a teaching event this fall and finally the monthly ladies event in Salcoatitan. One good thing happened when she taught in Ataco was that she was able to take some visitors from Juayua with her. She left Saturday morning about 8:30 to pick up Linda on her way to the meeting and I was still out walking Wicket when she left. I met a young couple from Europe who were waiting for breakfast at a pupusa stand on the street. We talked for a few minutes in English and the lady said that I must live here because I had a dog with me. She said old people need dogs. I laughed and said “Well, I am old.” But old is something hard to feel most of the time at least for me. Our studies are going well though most of the people are very resistant to change. Wednesday night we had a large number of visitors and then Thursday night we met at Mario and Seyli's house and there was practically standing room only. For the ladies event in Salcoatitan Saturday afternoon we took one load with us when we went at 2:30 and then I ran back and got another load and our Sunday services always have lots of people thought most are brothers and sisters and less visitors on Sundays. After morning service this Sunday we wanted to take Jose and Kelly and their kids out to lunch since we had not done anything with them in a while. I asked about the Gastronomica (the food fest that Juayua has every weekend) and Kelly said she had worked at one of the booths for a couple of years and that the lady who owned it bought her food at Selectos and was careful in preparing it. So we had our first experience at that though it is what Juayua is famous for and what people come to from far and wide. It was good and hopefully we will not get any parasites but most of all we had a good outing with Jose and Kelly and kids. This afternoon Charlotte led another baptism study and I read verses for her. It was with Mr. Riva's grandmother and his aunt. Tonight we had Wendy and Oscar over for dinner and had a study on the differences between the New Testament Church and the denominations that fill Juayua. It went well but in the end we did not get the impression that they really took it to heart. As the saying here always goes “poco a poco” little by little and so it goes and so do we.