Saturday, July 23, 2016

July 16, 2016

Saturday Seminar.  Fortunately, I had lots of helpers today for breakfast for it was really involved.  Suleyma made bacon and cheese quesadillas and Xiomara and Emily made grilled cheese and ham.  Arnoldo cut up items and Regina cut up fruit.  We were all busy, busy!  We were to start the seminar at 9:30, but it was probably 10 when we started.  We had lots of helpers for the children and Allen was prepared for the seminar on marriage.  Come to the Weddings was the overall theme and this was one of the culminating events.  When we planned this, we were studying with many couples and we were looking to invite them.  Several of the couples have been baptized and so we had many church members to come.  I think all the visitors that we had invited came.  I was excited Briseida and Antonio came, as well as Celia, Claudia, Sandra and others.  It is such a blessing to work in the community!  Allen did a great job working with Cesar on the translations and the lunch that followed was really nice.  The afternoon was free to shop and people came and went all afternoon visiting around Juayua. I went out with Greta, Jim and Della to locate some of their best contacts and get to meet them.  One man didn’t invite us in for several people were working on sewing machines in his home and he was really busy.  However, he had a pamphlet that the team had handed out and he had read about half of it.  It was marked in red on every line and he had read many references.  We had a lively conversation and he said we could come back in the week.  For one contact of Della, a mother and daughter lived together.  The daughter had a brain tumor when she was young and the surgery had left her with language difficulties and balance issues.  She had recently fallen and had her hand wrapped up.  We will continue with these visits.  It was a great idea to make this connection. For the evening, everyone went to Carbon and Linda for pupusas.  We had many of the translators from the week and some visitors as well.  It took a really long time for serving and a rain storm rolled through, but the fellowship was super!  

Breakfast Prep



Seminar



Carbon and Linda 







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