October 27, 2016

Yeah, for our study on Thursday morning, Mario, the father of the family we are visiting was home.  The last two studies he was working.  But, we were thankful he was home and instead of moving forward, we revisited the Word study. It is always our desire to work with entire families.  Afterwards we were on to Claudia’s.  She was out working on a school project because students are wrapping up their school year.  We talked to Sandra, her sister, a few minutes and said we would revisit when school is out in one to two weeks.  After a stop at Super, we went home, expecting Douglas at 11:30.  Close to 12:30 we had a pleasant surprise.  Douglas arrived and Sonja came too.  This was her first time to study in our home.  We studied faith and wrapped up close to 1:20.  Arnoldo had shifted to Thursday for lunch because of the preacher’s meeting, so he had arrived for the majority of the study.  At 2, we picked up Xiomara and headed toward the church building.  We dropped Dwaine and Arnoldo off for a baptism study with Melvin and Mr. Rivas and Xiomara and I drove to Miriam’s.  First, Melvin did not come and Mr. Rivas came late.  In the end, Cesar said he led the study with Mr. Rivas for only about 30 minutes.  He has already had several studies on this topic.  While Mr. Rivas has not made a decision, he does come to services and events regularly now.  For us ladies, Miriam was not home.  She is a contact we had made from ladies’ events and Xiomara had once been a neighbor.  Since Carla has been out for several studies, we had decided to try a new contact.  It was quite a drive up to her home, often spinning wheels on the rocky road.  We were laughing like crazy.  In the end, we should have walked.  We will have to try another day to revisit.  I dropped Xiomara off at her home and I went home to rest a few, but cooked instead…..At 3:30 I went back to pick her back up, as she only lives about 3 to 4 blocks away.  Dwaine called and he was already walking our way to join the study with Blanca.  And….Blanca was not home.  Her door was locked up.  So, there was a little down time and we headed out close to 6 for the Thursday study in the home of Regina.  We picked up Xiomara’s family and checked on Socorro, but she had not been home all afternoon.  We also stopped back by Blanca’s for she lives close to Regina, but she still was not home.  In the end, we had about 25ish and the excited news was Douglas and Sonja came along with several visitors.  For the evening we revisited internet loss.  We are still connected to Claro and used their service for a bit.  Eventually Tigo came back on and we became a divided family.  I stayed on Claro and Dwaine opened up in Tigo.  Internet woes. Claro is only $17 a month, so we may just let their contract ride out or a few more months. We worked on lessons for several hours, skyped and called it a night.    

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