We had told Sister Ana we would pick her up for morning services
here in Juayua. We never know how many
people she will have going with her.
This time there were three daughters and two kids. They were pretty packed in but that is normal
for here. Charlotte sat in the middle on
the brake and one of the daughters and one child sat beside her. We had a good number at the services and
Rafael came for the first time since we had found out that he was a brother
from long ago. Before the Lord's Supper
he was asked to come to the front for a special prayer since he had not been
attending for a long time. Bro. Juan
Carlos Santa Maria (Charlie) from Santa Ana was visiting and he led the communion
service and I did the serving. It was
neat getting to serve Jose and Kelly for the first time for me since it was our
first Sunday back since their baptisms and also Rafael so we have more brothers
and sisters but few visitors now. We did
have a good turn out and the room was full.
It is still amazing to me that we have so many coming now after only
about a year of working here. After
service we had two CoCo Cola cakes that Charlotte had cooked to celebrate the
birthdays for the months of April, May and June. We had several people who were having
birthdays in those months including Jose.
After we finished there were quite a lot of cake crumbs on the floor
from the kids eating and ants are terrible here if there is any food on the
floor so I cleaned up and mopped some while Charlotte ran Ana's family home and
then came back for me. We did not end up
having anyone for lunch so we ran by Selectos and then had a small lunch of
soup and rested some. About 3 Arnoldo
arrived to ride with us to the 4:00 service in Salcoatitan. Sister Ana and several from her family wanted
to go also so we had a car full again with Charlotte in the middle again but at
least it is a short trip. They did not
have many people at first so they started about 10 minutes late and it was also
very hot. But it went well and they
eventually had a pretty good number.
After the service there was a presentation of Baptism certificates for
the young man and lady who had been baptized while we were in the States. It was a very nice ceremony. As we were dropping Sister Ana and her family
off I got a call from Carlos that another young man wanted to be baptized but
the water was not working in Salcoatitan.
We got home as soon as we could and got our small pool out and started
filling it. About 20 minutes later
Ricardo and Yoli and Linda and kids arrived then soon after Carlos arrived with
the young man and his mother. The other
young man who had been baptized already and was friends with this young man
arrived on a bicycle. The baptism went
great after we got the pool full and pretty soon after everyone headed
out. We had had a more exciting day than
we had expected.
Baptism from Salcoatitan with Carlos
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