April 26, 2016

This morning we went back up to Mercedes and Armando to see if we could study again with them.  Fortunately, they were home and available.  We had discussed the inspiration of the Bible during our first study so this time we talked about the verses that say there will be many people who will depart form the true faith of the Bible.  Mercedes never says anything but Armando had several questions and comments.  It is a little difficult to make as much progress as we hoped to with lots of comments but at least it is better to have interaction and to know someone is engaged in the study.  When we finished Charlotte had a meeting with Eliza to discuss the new material Eliza had bought in San Salvador for the children’s classes.  In the afternoon I worked around the house and finished getting ready for the study with Don Santos while Charlotte went with picked up Regina and Seyli and went to Sister Ana’s. Sister Ana was in good spirits, but none of her daughters were home to join in on the study. When Don Santos arrived he was alone again.  I guess we will just have to hope that he will be able to influence Sonja once he is a Christian.  I had asked him last week if there was anything he wanted to study and he said he would like to know how close we are to the return of Christ.  When I asked him tonight if he remembered his question he did not.  But anyway we studied what apocalyptic literature is and the importance of always understanding it in the light of the scriptures that are not apocalyptic.  Then we studied Matthew 24 and talked about the destruction of Jerusalem and also looked up the destruction of Jerusalem in Wikipedia.  It was pretty incredible in that it said so many Jews fled into the temple thinking that God would protect them and the Romans entered and slaughtered them and there was such a river of blood flowing out of the temple that it carried some of the dead bodies along with it.  Anyway, when we finished he said he understood that Jesus could return at any time.  I told him that I wanted to do the study with him to show that we speak only from the Bible but that this subject does not interest me greatly because I believe that if I am ready to die which could happen at any moment I am living then I will also be ready if Jesus should return.  After the study we had some super delicious desert that Charlotte had made for the first time here and she sent some to Sonja and Jimmy.