April 28, 2016

Swap about.  I had been having a study with Tatiana and Claudia with Suylema.  This past week Suylema took a one week job in San Salvador, so Kenia went with me.  That is Suylema’s sister.  This week Kenia could not go, so Regina went with me.  Tatiana was ready to study and made several good comments.  She has not visited a service, so we tried to encourage her to come.  We studied at the church building and afterwards, as we headed out to Floramarina and Claudia’s, they were heading out to do some shopping to make tortillas.  They have a stand to sell tortillas, so they needed to get some supplies.  Dwaine had gone to get the oil changed in the car during the studies, but he arrived just as we were finishing up.  We took Regina home and went by the house to pick up our cake for Jose’s birthday.  We got there about 11:30 and visited for several minutes.  Seyli and Mario also came and two family friends.  Kelly had grilled some chicken with rice and fresh salad cuts.  About the time we finished, Kiki and Nicole had to leave for school.  We all had cake and left about 1:30ish.  We went home for about 45 minutes and I headed back out to pick up Seyli for a few studies.  It was a little rainy and that seems to slow visits.  We walked up to the cemetery and visited a few minutes with Wendy.  Eliezer was sleeping, so we missed him.  Then, we walked next door, but Reina was not home.  Her daughter, a different Tatiana, was home and we visited a few minutes.  She had gotten a splinter in her hand and was trying to get it out.  She had no alcohol or way to clean her hands.  We were trying to help her and both of her hands had lots of cuts from cutting wood and several burns from cooking with the wood.  She is so young to have such a difficult life.  Life is really hard here and during this time where the coffee is not in production is especially rough.  Since we had a little more time, we walked up to Alba’s to invite her to the Bible study in the evenings.  We wrapped up visiting and we went home for about an hour.  Each time I went home today, I slept for about 10 to 20 minutes. We did get a few minutes of Charlotte time in on Skype. Dwaine left to pick up folks near the church and I walked over to Socorro’s to walk with her to Cesar and Eliza’s.  She was ready and everyone arrived about 6.  We had several visitor, one of which was new, a neighbor of Cesar’s.  It was a nice evening and we made a couple of rounds of deliveries on taking folks home.  We didn’t do too much for the late evening, but did learn that Leanna’s steering pump was out for about the 4^th time on her car.  She said it was especially difficult to drive right now.  We are trying to look into if there is a recall on it.  There must be some reason it completely goes out very often.  It is supposed to be redone again Tuesday.  We are prayerful she keeps safe.  

Celebrating Jose's 40th birthday with friends!