Party
crashers. We are excited to start a new study with Rut. She has visited two ladies’ events and last
time she said we could drop by. We
arrived at 9 and she was ready. However,
she did explain that she worked every day and had only taken the day off to
help her daughter of 9 years study for her exams in the afternoon. So, we did start the study and then planned to
continue in the month of December when school vacations happen. Their summer vacations are late Nov, Dec, and
part of January, so they are opposite of what happen in the States. Hopefully, we can continue and at least lay a
foundation when school is out. Rut is a
teacher and must conform to the school schedule. Next, we went on to Briseida’s. That was a funny, funny visit. Briseida
or Antonio were not home, but Briseida’s sister-in-law, Carolina were there
with several children and ladies. They
invited us to walk around to the back of the house and we were told they would
return soon for it was Genesis’ birthday.
I did note it was especially clean and there was a piñata hanging. So, we decided that we were crashing a party
and needed to slip out. When we got to
the end of the cemetery, we met first Briseida and then Antonio arriving. Well, I had taken some baby clothes that we
had brought from the States, so I handed those along. It was a funny morning. We told them we would visit next week. With a little time, we walked by Magnolia’s
but she was not home. Then, we walked by
Claudia’s, the young one, and asked if she wanted to study Thursday
morning. She said yes. So, we planned for 10. When we arrived home, Ulma and her son Juan
Miguel came by to pick up Sunday school material and I said it was at the
building. We are alternating the classes
and she was not there on Sunday. We
decided in the end that we would just swap and I would teach this Sunday and
she would do the last one since October has 5 Sundays. She did want to join me on a day to go out
for studies. I think we have settled on
Monday afternoons. She has to take the
bus to come from Apaneca, so I hope when she comes everyone is available to
study. It did give us a chance to visit
some and I drove her back to the bus stop as we were expecting Douglas any
moment. However, he never showed. Arnoldo arrived and said he has talked to Carolina
and she could not come. We had lunch and
Dwaine was going to leave early to clean the building before his afternoon
study with Michael, Melvin and Mr. Rivas.
Eber is harder to catch because he is working now. Arnold walked over to Cesar and planned to
walk to the building for the study.
Carolina did show up after a few minutes and was just running late due
to some commitments. She ate some lunch
and we started a study which lasted for about an hour. At the end I passed along a few clothes
Leanna and Christina has sent for her and one outfit for Ingrid. I also passed along a necklace from Leanna
and a bracelet from Minnie Teague. She
was so overwhelmed, she started crying.
It was so very little, yet so appreciated. We have appreciated everyone’s generosity,
but it is always hard to grasp the difficulties of life for some. Thankfully, Carolina knows she is much
loved. We had scheduled to go out and
look at kittens at 4, so Socorro knew I was not coming for one Wednesday. We picked up Gisela, Xiomara and her sister
to drive back to a little questionable area.
We were told it would be safe because it was just on the outskirts of a
little bit of a dangerous area. It went
smooth as far as safety, but the lady was sleeping and no one could get her to
wake up. Gisela walked down to her aunts
and she came to see if she could get her going.
But, alas, no kitten today. When
we got home, we started on pick up rounds and then we had our service. For the children’s class, Arnoldo did most of
the teaching and he did a great job. We
are making a shift to try to get more available teachers. On our way home, we got a call from Carlos
saying that he wanted to use our pila for a baptism. He has four young men from Bica, a preaching
school in Guatemala. They had studied
with a boy, Kevin, of 11 years and he wanted to be baptized. His brother, Douglas, had been baptized some
time back, so it was a blessing to see the family growing. It was definitely a full day.
Baptism of Kevin,
from Salcoatitan
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