October 16, 2016

Early start.  Kelly said to arrive at her house at 7:30 and I made that to cut lettuce for an hour.  She was expecting about 60 people, and was cooking salad, rice and meat….beef and peliway…cross between goat and sheep.  Her family was there, her brother and girlfriend and her sister, Melissa, and her boyfriend.  They had all come in from San Salvador.  We wrapped up the salad at 9:30, so I walked on down to the church building.  Our numbers were a little low as Kelly and her family did not come.  The boy bringing the meat was late and she still had that cooking to do.  Hector and Rachel were traveling and decided to stop by and join us.  That was the first time they had come to a service and I enjoyed having their family in the Sunday school class. My helper was not able to come, so Gisela helped me out.  During class my phone rang and Claro was on the line wanting to come to our house at 1 to work on our internet connection.  Cesar said he could house sit for us to have them come since he was not going to the graduation.  We were thankful for that! After the service, things happened quickly for the luncheon.  Dwaine left to take people home and pick up the cake.  Kiki and his brother-in-law even carried their kitchen table down from their house.  In all about 5 tables were set, décor finished and food brought.  Jose had even handpainted a beautiful banner.  Things started promptly at 1.  Dwaine and I served cookies and probably about 100 were eaten.  In the end about 40 came.  After the cookies, we also helped serve plates.  When we settled down to eat, we got to do some visiting.  Dwaine got to sit next to Melissa, the girl graduating and I sat next to a young family.  The lady, Sandra, was a nurse so we got to talk science some.  She worked at a hospital in Sonsonate.  Her husband, Raul, kept their soon to be two year old son, Edgardo.  He had two surgeries since his birth, so he had his hands full and he was doing great.  We invited them to dinner on Friday and are hopeful they will come.  Sandra was a little uncertain on her schedule, so they took our numbers.  We are hopeful they will come.  For the evening service in Salcoatitan, Carlos led a short service of only one hour.  A group of Bica workers from a preaching school in Honduras was coming, and they needed to go pick them up.  They have a week of activities planned....a few of the workers will stay in their home and door knock for the week and end with some gospel meetings.  We hope we can have our Thursday night group to go.    

Happy graduation!

Crowd gathering.

Handpainted banner!