April 9, 2016

Sweet Hour of Payer.  For me, the majority of this day was spent preparing for the teacher’s seminar scheduled for Sunday afternoon in Santa Ana.  I also wanted to take some food lessons, so I also used some of my time preparing some themed treats.  The day passed too quickly. Dwaine left about 2:20 for a dinner at Hector and Rachel’s as they had many gathered to share growth in the area for some visiting elders from Signal Mountain and Matt Bender from Huntsville.  A little before 4, I walked over to Cesar and Eliza’s to ride to Regina’s.  Suleyma had requested to have a prayer of thanksgiving for Danielito’s health.  Through the last several months he has had chikungunya, Dengue fever and ongoing stomach issues.  God has been gracious to help him and his family through each issue.  Cesar and Mario led the service and it was a blessing to everyone’s complete dependency of God’s grace and guidance.  I returned home for more preparation and Dwaine also got home soon after me. Thankfully, he helped me pull together many of the items I was preparing.  (Dwaine)  Last Thursday morning when I was walking Wicket I ran into Nelson and his family.  I had not seen him in quite a while.  We talked a little and I asked if he would like to get together for another study and he said yes.  The only time we could find was Saturday morning so this morning he came over about 9.  Our last study was on what the Bible teaches about baptism as opposed to what he had gone through in the prophecy church he was attending.  We studied about Jon the Baptist and how important his baptism was during the time it was in effect but that when Paul ran across 12 men who had only been baptized in the baptism of John he re-baptized them.  I told him a person can only obey what they know but the real question is when they learn new truth what do they do with it.  I was pretty strong with him, I told him that since we had not studied for so long and might not again I really wanted him to know what the Bible teaches.  He said he would try to come Sunday and thanked me for the study.  About 2:20 I headed out to pick up Carlos and family on my way to a meeting in Hector's house in Apaneca.  Matt Bender and two men from Signal Mountain were here for the weekend and wanted to have a meal and report time with us.  It was really good, Hector had asked 5 brothers from Ataco to come and report on the work going on there, then Carlos gave a good power point presentation about the work in Salcoatitan and after him I added some comments about the work here in Juayua.  Osvaldo rounded out the meeting with a report about the work in Ahuachapan.  I was surprised to learn that the building they had been using and that Charlotte and I had visited had been sold by the owner and they had moved to another building on the main street in town.  He said that property was very expensive in the down town area of Ahuachapan so they could only rent but that they had been in that area for 11 years and no other churches were in that area and they did not want to move.  After the reports we had homemade pizza for dinner and after dropping Carlos and family off I got home about 7.