September 3, 2016

Happy Anniversary and Ladies Event.  This day is always greatly anticipated for me because it is a time of fun fellowship and opportunities!  Today was no exception.  It is a blessing.  The morning was spent preparing and included shopping for Monday’s dinner, children’s classes while we are gone and finally for the afternoon event.  We had 22 people with 8 visitors. For the visitors, Velma and Soili came.  Seily and I study with them on Monday’s.  They first came during the campaign.  Another lady, Rut and her daughter Flor came.  They said they had been before, but I only vaguely recognized them.  She is a teacher and lives alongside the lady where we usually buy bread.  She is limited on time, but said we could visit when we return in October.  Claudia Veronica also came with her daughter.  She is an ongoing study.  So, there were several more opportunities.  We had a visiting speaker, America de Batres.  She is a friend of Eliza and traveled to speak from San Salvador.  Dwaine visited with her husband, David during the event.  She spoke of self-esteem and did a good job of interaction with the group.  It was a blessing to be with everyone.  Afterwards Dwaine and I walked to Codeo for an anniversary dinner…..38 years.  It was a small restaurant and we had never eaten there before.  A group arrived that was from several countries such as Wales, England and surrounding areas.  Some had been traveling for 1 year and a half to see Central America.  It was funny that on the way to the restaurant, we passed Socorro’s.  While we were visiting, Don Santos also came up on his bike.  As we were talking about anniversaries, he could not remember his anniversary date.  We gave him a hard time about that! It was a blessing to have this time with a wonderful husband of 38 years!

Ladies' Event

Rut and Flor

Mercedes

Vilma and Soila

America de Batres

Seily taught us how to make hair bows!