June 2, 2016

Two baptisms!  The morning started with more visitors.  Alba and her daughter, Katherine, came by.  We had a ‘Que Dice La Biblia’ laying around and she said she wanted to study this together.  I asked her directly what she was hoping to learn because we have studied a long time, but she does not want to make any changes in her life.  She will come to some ladies’ events, but she attends another church.  I was happy to set up the study, and I hope it will convict her to make the changes she desires.  I think the bottom line is that her husband likes the other church.  Alba can see the differences in the doctrine, but cannot break away from the other church with her husband wanting to attend. So we will keep studying.  I think her desire for now, is just to be more familiar with the Bible.  She likes to learn topics and where things are located, but when we study verses that warrant changes, she changes the flow of the study with questions that are unrelated.  Keep her in your prayers.  I rested through lunch and we had told Mario and Sara they could come by about 4 for a study for their son would get out of school at 5:30.  But, they came about 3 because he was to get out early at 4:30.  I fixed a snack.  Dwaine was out, but arrived shortly.  Since their marriage on Sunday, we knew Mario wanted to be baptized, but we were a little uncertain about Sara.  We talked a bit and they said they both wanted to be baptized after the evening study.  We sure were excited.  The study was at Regina’s at 6, and at first it looked like it was going to be a small group.  But, people kept coming and we had a pretty good number of people before too long.  All wanted to come to the baptisms, so afterwards, some walked and some rode to our house.  It was a cool night for the rains make it coolish sometimes.  Dwaine had gone to Salcoatitan to get their pool before the Bible study and he had it ready to go when people arrived.  We had loaned our pool to Osvaldo for his son’s baptism, and we had not gotten it back yet.  We had a wonderful celebration for the baptism and a good crowd to come.  We even had a few visitors too.  We were especially glad that Celia was able to come a witness these births.  By the time we finished, Dwaine ran them home because she had to leave for work at 4:30 in the morning.  It was a great night!

Mario and Sara