July 26, 2016

Get going!  So, time has arrived to jump back into studies and start working on the new con ftacts….and meetings.  So, a meeting was scheduled for the morning in Salcoatitan.  I had planned a study with Amalia with Seily, so I left at 10:30. What part I went to, we discussed ways we could improve our planning and participation for the group visits.  I was thankful to find Amalia at home, but leaving for the school to pick up a child and she told us she had had a heart attack the week of the campaign and had been in the hospital in Sonsonate for five days.  She was better, but appeared tired.  Amalia is in her 80’s.  We drove her to the school near our house and back to her house.  Mr. Rivas was there and he was studying Que Dice la Biblia when we arrived.  So, he sat in on the study as well.  We studied faith.  Dwaine and I met back at the house for lunch and then I left at 2.  Dwaine and Cesar and I drove up to Seily’s and we stopped by Kelly’s to wish her a Happy Birthday.  She turned 33 today.  We had some gifts.  Jim had wanted to impart some pictures form their wedding.  I had ordered them during the campaign and we had picked up some frames.  Christina brought the pictures with her, along with several sets of 4x6’s for various people.  I had also found some material in San Salvador I got for her.  Christina and Clifton had left some pictures and I had to holders.  One, was the family picture with Clifton with Jose because he doesn’t like good-byes.  So, they just left a place for him in the photo.  The other was a family picture with Christina and Leanna.  So, it was a nice birthday.  Dwaine and Cesar went to study with Delmy, who turned out not to be home.  Seily and I went to study with Sister Ana and their family, but they had gone to a funeral.  Later we found out that that the 88 year old brother of Ana’s husband had passed.  So, we returned and Dwaine and I ended up with about an hour to spare before Don Santos would come.  We walked to Rolando’s home where we talked for about an hour.  He and his wife Blanca, who was not in, are active in a church, but he was the gentleman that had read much of the pamphlet that the group had left.  Since he was a reader, we talked about sharing Que Dice La Biblia with him that has 11 lessons and studying those topics.  He said he was open to coming to a study and we said we would stop back by in a day to let him know the location of the study that would meet in houses for the week.  Don Santos came about 6:30 and he and Dwaine continued their study in Romans and I worked of lesson preparation.