Continuation of preacher retreat with a
fantastic conclusion…..I got up at 4 to cook some cookies. On Friday night we had served fruit breads and
coffee and we wanted to do this again.
Fatima wanted to help me, but I really didn’t want to wake her up at
this hour to cook. She got up about 5:30
and I had save some cookies for her help with.
All came together to leave at 7:40.
We drove to Entre Nubes in Ataco for breakfast and Hector to do a lesson
on finances. Afterwards we drove to
Apaneca to Lago Verde to have a cookout and fellowship time. Noe brought the
meat and Hector brought his grill. It took
an hour to do the cooking and we ate about 2.
Everyone was really hungry and the food was great. Next we had a dynamic to summarize the
weekend and we ended about 3:30. I had studied with Ana Vilma with Carolina for some time and
then when her husband George joined the study, Dwaine joined in. They came at 4:30, so we were trying to get
home in time for a short break and time to pick them up. We ran a little late because of the
passage….the last shall be first and the first shall be last….well a
paraphrase. So, we had arrived first at
the lake, but due to the narrow road, we were last to leaveJ!
So, within a few minutes of getting home, there was a knock on the
door. Ana Vilma and George had walked
over with Nelson and their nephew, Jose Raul.
The boys worked on some coloring pages and we had a great study with the
couple. Just last Sunday, Ana Vilma and
George were married and this night, they wanted to be baptized to marry
Christ! We studied for over an hour and
they wanted to make this decision tonight.
We had not tried out the pila at the church, so Dwaine headed to the
building to fill in and I took them home to pick up some more clothes. Ana Vilma’s sister (mother of Jose Raul),
Flor, joined us as well. At the
building, we called people off the street to join us as many people pass by
that we know and study with. Mr. Rivas
joined us and he was very convicted by the baptism. He had asked to see a baptism and it moved
him deeply. Cesar picked up Xiomara and
her family and that was good. Celia and
Terry walked by, but they wanted to go home first and come back. In the end, they did not join us. Several members joined us as well and it was
a blessing to have everyone. Being the
first time to use the pila had its own set of issues….how to turn, how to avoid
bumping heads, how to completely submerge, etc.
All came together and we celebrated two new births in the kingdom!
Preacher's Meeting
Jorge's Baptism
Ana Vilma's Baptism
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