April 2, 2016

Wow!  Up and running at 5:30 to meet some deadlines.  The day looked like it would pace pretty good until I could not find cherries to top the banana splits.  How can one serve banana splits without cherries?  So I decided I had enough time to make chocolate covered strawberries for the ladies event.  Dwaine went to the market to pick up the strawberries.  The process really went smoothly. The craft, a sachet bag, was ready for filling, sewing closed and decorating.  Dwaine went to the building to be sure that all was ready for the event.  About noon, everything looked ready, so we ate lunch and rested about 30 minutes.  Afterwards, we headed to the building and everything was ready.  Dwaine left to pick up Sister Ana and her daughters.  About 2:30 people started arriving and they just kept coming and kept coming.  It was amazing.  In the end the best we could figure was that visitors and now bringing their own visitors.  We had a total of 55 people in the building.  That was 27 lady visitors, 12 sisters, 12 children, 3 men helpers and 1 man visitor.  That’s the wow!  It was an exciting afternoon, but there were a few noteworthy things.  The first and most important, two young ladies during the afternoon, said that they would be glad to study!  That is the best news.  One that was funny is our new Sister Kelly helped to serve and then, in the end we just barely ran out of craft items.  One person wasn’t able to make the sachet and it was Kelly.  We just kidded her that was the price of now being in the body.  She just laughed.  What a blessing she is, she brought two visitors!  One that was amazing to me was one visitor, Luz de Leon.  One day we were walking to a study and she pulled up in a car to ask if we had found a place to rent for the church.  We actually could not remember talking with her, but we visited for several minutes and I invited her to the event.  She came!  That was so exciting!  We always do prayer requests and she shared many things in her life.  We will continue to keep in contact with her.  Linda did our lesson on Dorcas and what is our legacy.  Of course she did a great job.  Dwaine helped a lot with serving, but he spend a lot of the afternoon visiting with Mario.  He had come with Sara.  Mario is the man who had broken his leg close to the time the campaigners came last summer.  We were exhausted when the day was done.  When we got home, we did go out one more time.  Socorro’s sister was visiting from the States and we really wanted to meet her.  So we went by her hostel and visited for about 30 or 40 minutes.  She will be here for about two weeks.  It was definitely a ‘wow’ day.  

Ladies' Event