October 13, 2016

Initially, we had planned a 9 o’clock trip to Ahuachapan to help a bother with some work he needed to accomplish, but Cesar said that he could make the drive for us.  They took our car for the space and AC and we used his car for tooling around Juayua.  Since we thought we would have an early morning run, we had scheduled our study with Mario, Adalia and Jennifer early, about 8.  With the swap out we arrived at their house about 8:30.  Mario had to go out of town for his work.  She said he often even went to Guatemala for work as well.  So, we studied the Word with Adalia and Jennifer.  That seems to be the study of the week.  It was a good study and I told Dwaine afterwards that Adalia had made many more comments in the absence of her husband than the previous week.  I hope that is a sign that she is getting to know us and is more comfortable with us.  Next, we drove up to Kelly’s to see what she needed for Sunday.  We settled on some help with decorations, cookies and help for serving.  I had some blue graduation hats for décor, but her color scheme is black and white……oh well.  We came back home next and Dwaine worked on a bath for Wicket and I worked on hemming my skirt.  Dwaine also runs short errands here and there and he ran into Mauricio and he said he had to unexpectedly go to San Salvador for his study, so they rescheduled for Friday afternoon.  After lunch, we drove to Xiomara's and Emily was planning to go with us to some studies.  Xiomara had gone to Sonsonate with Gisela to go to the doctor to see if she could learn anything about her (Xiomara) bad headaches.  We first went to Carla’s but she was not home this week.  Next, we went to Blanca’s.  It was about 2:15 and she said that 3:30 would be a much better time for her.  So, we drove to the cemetery to catch Vilma.  She was home, but on her way out and said we could try to start back on Monday.  On the way in, we had passed Alba and we have been talking that we could start back studying.  So, we set up a time for Friday afternoon.  It may be a time of convergence as Mauricio may arrive and then Nelson and Alba and her girls.  Interesting.  Well, Dwaine and I can split up Alba and Mauricio, and then Nelson can go to Cesar’s if it all happens.  We went on home for about 45 minutes and Dwaine started cutting Wicket’s hair for a shave and I hemmed a few more minutes.  At 3:30 we got Emily and went on to Blanca’s for a study on faith.  She has a desire to make changes in her life, but she lets life get in the way.  We finished up after about an hour and had just a few minutes before the 6 o’clock study.  Guess what?  Wicket and skirt got a little more work.  Dwaine left to pick up folks at Ana’s and I walked to the Bible study at Cesar’s.  It was a full house, around 30ish.  We had no internet for the night, so Dwaine did some extra reading out loud in a book called, ‘Who is my Brother?’