Our Campaign!!!
As I mentioned in
our last report Omar and Emily were baptized July 1st and their
mother, Xiomara and sister, Gisela wanted to be part of our congregation. They have been a tremendous blessing
already. During the visit of our group
Xiomara and Emily came at 6:30 every morning and helped prepare breakfast, Omar
went with Jim each day to be his translator and Gisela went with Charlotte each
day on the evangelism teams. We spent
the first few days of the month making final preparations for the arrival of
our group including making a run to Sonsonate on the first Saturday and a run
to PriceSmart in San Salvador on the second Saturday with Ricardo, Yoli and
Linda as well as Charlotte and I to pick up a literal truck load of food
items. This was the first trip in the
car since I had gotten the AC worked on again and it performed great. I was so thankful we would have AC for
picking up Leanna and Della from the airport on Monday. We had rented a 70 passenger bus to pick up
the group but we had to go early because Leanna arrived alone before the rest
of the group. Cesar rode with us to the
airport and we went by immigration where we found that my new one year visa was
ready but not Charlotte's. They had
separated us again! Even the lady at the
desk said she did not understand why.
After immigration we went by the dentist because Charlotte had broken a
tooth the night before. It was such an
amazing blessing because when we called they said they were filled with
patients but we decided to go by anyway and Charlotte's dentist was standing up
front because someone had not shown up and he took her back immediately and in
about 40 minutes he had capped her tooth and said it was good and she would not
have to come back. We were a little
unsure if we had enough money because we were pretty low before the group's
arrival but it only costed $25. She has
not had any more problems with it since.
The time with our group was both wonderful and hectic but all went
well. We had great ladies events and
evening preaching as well as lots of fellowship and door knocking. We were especially thankful that Della and Suzie worked so hard to give their talks in Spanish! We are still trying to follow up on those that the
group said were their best contacts. Allen's
lessons were really great and everyone got a lot out of them. I told him it was clear we had made the
“Wright choice” in asking him to come.
Our Saturday classes with lunch at the hotel were especially good and
some said they wish we had continued with afternoon sessions after lunch. I was glad our group got to have some time
off on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and at least several got to go to the
beautiful waterfalls here. We also especially enjoyed our Sunday evening
leaders' dinner and evaluation of our campaign.
Every event is a learning experience for us but that is good. We took Della back to the airport to leave
with the group and picked up Christina who came for a week while Clifton and
Leanna were still here. The week after
the campaign was certainly the closest thing we have had to a vacation since we
came here. Each day we tried to take
some sightseeing trip- zip lining, souvenir shopping, eating out, going to the
beach on a rainy day, visiting Osvaldo's family in Ahuachapan and going to
their service, and even going to the large beautiful lake near Santa Ana, where
Charlotte and I had our first jet skiing experience, and visiting the water
park where minnows nibble on your feet.
On Saturday, Clifton and I rode a van with our group back to Ahuachapan
for an all-day family seminar while Charlotte spent the day with Leanna and
Christina (since they would not have understood any of the lessons and it was
their only chance for a ladies day).
Sunday we attended both services with more shopping in between. After getting them all off on Monday the 25th we went back by immigration and
Charlotte's visa was ready this time.
Tuesday we finally got back into our routine with a leader's meeting to
again evaluate the campaign and restart all our other activities. We are continuing with the new convert’s
classes on Monday nights in our home as well as we got to host two Thursday
night group studies in our home in a row.
We did have a new contact from our group's door knocking (husband and wife)
who came to the last one and we have also begun a new study with Ana Vilma and
George (Sister Ana's son) and so far it seems very encouraging. We ended the month with a trip to a
congregation near San Salvador where there were 6 different congregations
represented for a 5th Sunday group service. We rode all the way in a bus with 31 people
from Juayua (including several visitors) as well as about 15 people from
Salcoatitan and about 18 from Santa Katarina.
It was quite a month and before long we will be back for our September
visit. But one more report before then,
hopefully, with more good news. Keep us
in your prayers. Dwaine and Charlotte
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