May 13, 2016

Back to back to back to back…..there are just not enough hours in the day.  First, Kelly, Jose, Nicole and Kiki came for a study.  That was a blessing to spend some time with them and encourage them in their walk.  As they were walking out, Mario and Sara arrived to go by the mayor’s office to get their birth certificates.  They also got Carlito's certificate so that Mario can adopt him once he and Sara are married.  We had told Celia that we would be late for her study and we arrived there about 11.  Terry sat in on most of the study, but then had to leave and go out for tortillas.  She had to go to work about 1 in Ataco, so we were close to lunch time.  Celia had her granddaughter visiting as well.  She is 9 and had also visited our Bible study on Thursday night.  We went home for lunch and a very short rest. I left a few minutes after 2 to go to Alba’s.  When I arrived, Alba had taken her daughter to the dentist.  Her older daughter said that she would walk with me to her sister’s, Angelia’s.  We had a good study to introduce our need or a Savior and Alba arrived at the end of the study.  At the end, almost 5, it was rainy and she loaned us some umbrellas.  I was trying to leave about 4:30, but at that time, she ran out to get some coffee and then had to make it.  So, we ran a little late.  We had some dinner guests coming at 6:30, so I had to scramble a little when I got home.  Dwaine had helped finalize some things, but he said that he was beginning to wonder if I was coming home.  We had Kayla and Oscar for dinner.  Kayla is an American and recently moved here and married Oscar.  They met learning to process coffee.  They had moved next to us when we lived near the church building just before we moved to town.  They are making a move to open their own coffee shop and are using all their resources to get this going.  They said they are on a ‘budget’ to eat on $5 a day, more or less.  They are doing some build out in a little place that should seat around 20 to 25 people when they open.  We had not invited them to study, but Dwaine went over the restoration plea.  Kayla said she was Catholic and was very private in her religion.  However, Oscar was quite attentive, but few comments.  We will try to continue our friendship and hope over time we can make an impact on their lives.  They both speak English, Kayla of course, so it was a different sort of night.  It was a nice visit.  They live next to Mario and Seily, so we know they will continue to see the message on many fronts.  We also continued to work on our paper connections in Honduras to have our papers complete.  We are trying to have Bro. Larin sign papers while Seily is there.  We are anticipating this to work out.