April 29, 2016

Rainy days and Fridays always get me down…or was that “Mondays.”  Well, anyway, the rain came.  We started the day dry and hoped that Kelly and Jose would come at 8:30 for a study.  They didn’t come, so when we left out for our first study, we dropped by.  Jose had to go to San Salvador to get his check from working and Kelly had a dress to sew with a deadline. Dwaine asked if Kiki could study on Saturday and I asked if Kelly might get together in the afternoon for a lesson on prayer.  She is going to lead a prayer on Saturday at our next ladies’ event.  Then we headed to Cecelia’s for a visit.  We got a treat in the Teresa was there and she is rarely at home.  She was planning to work the afternoon, so we had time to get in a good study.  We have studied the plan of salvation, but now are beginning to approach some of the differences with the Morman church.  Cecelia regularly comes to most things that we invite her to, except Sunday.  Cecelia and Teresa go to the Morman church.  Cecelia doesn’t read so it is a challenge.  But in the end, she made the most common response….little by little.  Cecelia is such a sweet lady and a dear friend, which pulls at my heartstrings that she is so far from the truth.  Keep her and her daughter in your prayers.  Next, we passed Rafael, who lives across from Cecelia, and Dwaine mentioned he would come back at 2 for a study with Cesar.  I planned to study with Alba.  However, Seyli called and said she would not be able to go for she had to make a trip to Santa Ana.  We went home for lunch and then when it was about time to head out, the rain came really hard.  It rained for about 1 ½ hours, so we did not go back out.  When it is a downpour, people do not go out.  Everyone says they just sleep it out in their homes.  Nice thought. Dwaine studied some through the afternoon and I cut out a dress pattern that I had brought back when we visited in March.  I probably won’t sew it for a while, but I had bought a little extra material I wanted to give to Kelly.  So, I needed to get it cut out to be sure how much material remained. While I was working Cesar came by.  He had gone to Santa Ana for the morning to buy Sister Ana some medicine.  After he left, Yesenia and Ulma came by for a visit.  They actually live in Apaneca.  So, they are doing some extensive décor for the ladies’ event because here, Mother’s day is the 10^th, so we are celebrating a few days early.  We got 400 balloons and she wanted to do a personalized paper craft for each to take with them with some verse references.  Yesenia had also put us décor in our classroom and nursery at church and she had designed an extensive mural made from paper just from a picture.  I am going to meet them at 9 next Saturday to help them so I can help repeat some of the décor for Salcoatitan.  The event is at 3 and then Seyli said afterwards she and Mario are having 20 couple over from Santa Ana and wanted us to come.  That may be quite a dayJ!  Friday closed on a quite note.  I later learned that Alba was out all afternoon anyway.  Dwaine and I watched a movie, and it was really good to have a slower day.