August 9, 2016

Tuesday morning we did not have a meeting.  We have changed to every other week unless something comes up.  I am thankful for that to have more time to be out and about.  So, we are to have some new studies.  However, first we headed to Celia’s to learn if they had any news regarding Terry’s and to talk about continuing our study.  She said that they had not yet gone to the doctor, but they should be able to go on Wednesday.  She did say, also, they wanted to continue to study.  As Mormons, they know there are differences in what we teach, but it is interesting.  We have not had much experience studying with Mormons, but many things that in their doctrine in the States are not openly taught here.  Joseph Smith is down played in his role in establishing the Mormon Church and some obvious differences are minimized.  At any rate, they do want to continue, at least from Celia’s perspective.  We will stop by again on in the week to see what Terry’s update is.  Then, we went to our new study with Sylvia, she was not home.  Next, we went by Mauricio’s but he was not home as well.  Oops, not looking good.  With a little extra time, we went by Luz de Maria and she was home, but she and her daughter were eating.  She said we could come back in about an hour, so we planned to return.  We headed on home for a bite and a short rest and went back at 1:15.  Although she did not attend the Catholic Church often, her parents had been faithful to that belief and she was well versed in those arguments.  We talked for about 45 minutes, but could see she was not really interested in looking at the scripture.  After that study, I went on to Seily’s to pick her to go to Ana’s.  Dwaine went with Cesar to search for Mr. Rivas and Delmy.  Neither were home.  We had a good study with Ana.  Sonja was home, but since she was caretaking Sister Ana, she went in to rest while we were there.  We ended up talking about marriage for quite some time since her son and Ana Vilma are planning to marry soon.  We did not have any lessons on reading and writing.  Now that coffee time is going, most of the family were out working in the fields.  That may be on the back burner for a time.  Dwaine’s studies were unavailable, but Don Santos did come in the evening.  I worked on Sunday school classes and seminar while they studied Que Dice La Biblia.  Dwaine said afterwards that he thought that the questions in those lessons were good for him to keep focused.