Beautiful Feet: June 25, 2016

Our first official wedding! We were invited to the wedding of Josue and Lia Saturday afternoon. This is Samuel’s brother who is at Central right now doing an internship and the son of Manual and Marina Azucena. He is also the brother of Eliza and Osvaldo. They had worked with the Juayua and Salcoatitan congregations last month. They were actually married last week for their civil service and now they were having a reception. We first went to breakfast at a new coffee shop in town opened by Kayla and Oscar. They are the couple we have had over for dinner. Kayla’s dad has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and she has been out of pocket for a bit. She was here for the opening. We had a nice breakfast and some good coffee to go with it. They have their shop decorated really nice. We left to go to San Salvador about 9:30. We had several errands to run and it was a challenge to get it all in. We did get lost one time and it took almost an hour to wind back around to where we needed to be. San Salvador is always a challenge. Cesar met us and we followed him to the hotel. We got there about 2:30. The invitation said 3:30, but things began to get underway about 4:00. It was a gorgeous setting in a large red suite with lighting for a “love” theme. Each table had roses and lilies. There were about 100 in attendance. First they had introductions. Mr. Azucena’s brother preached a sermon and then each related family gave a symbolic gift. They had a receiving line and Mr. Azucena even had Samuel on skype and we got to talk to him. He was exhausted from Impact. They had a chocolate bar, slide presentation and lots of photos. Next, they served a wonderful meal with split pea soup, chicken with a great sauce and stir fried veggies. It was great. We did decide to leave about 7:30 because we had a long drive home in the rain and in the dark. That is not what you want to do in San Salvador. We caravanned with Mario and Seily and with Cesar and Eliza and made it home close to 9. Only once we pulled over to wait for Mario. He had to get gas, but no one knew why we lost him. While it rained on us steadily the whole trip, it had really pour down while we were gone. Regina said on Sunday it was like a Nor’easter. We could tell the winds had whipped up around here, but all was well. So, in the end, it wasn’t an ‘official’ wedding because they were married earlier in the week. But for us, it was official and very similar to something we might attend in the States.

Coffee Shop