October 30, 2016

All set to go.  Feeling much better and ready to go to San Salvador.  We planned to go after recess/break at church.  The first part of our service focuses on the Lord’s Supper.  Then, we have a break with coffee for fellowship and then the preaching.  The children’s class begins at arrival and goes until the end, so the children are never in the service with parents.  This developed when we met at Regina’s because there was not enough room for everyone to be together.  We have been in the current location for about a year, but this remained.  So, we announced this past week that the children would be with parents during the Lord’s Supper and then break for class.  We are in prayer that this transition will go smoothly.  At break, Gisela, Arnoldo, Dwaine and I left for San Salvador.  We drove by the house to pick up lunch and cupcakes and headed out.  It was a smooth trip and we arrived close to 1 to meet Jose and Lia.  The seminar was at Mira Mount and they invited two additional congregations so we had a turnout of about 70 to 75.  We did not know, but they prepared lunch for us.  We started about 2 and went on until 4:30.  Dwaine helped with the PowerPoint and Arnoldo and Gisela helped with materials and pictures.  I repeated the seminar of October 8^th in Ataco, using object lessons in teaching the Parables of Jesus.  Since my time was double, I added some more examples.  One thing that was funny was that if something didn’t work, someone in the audience jumped up and helped try again.  We all just laughed and laughed.  Dwaine even got a full round of applause when I was talking about food object lessons and mentioned he always helped in the kitchen.  One lady recorded the entire lesson with her phone and many took notes.  Overall, I think it was one of the most interactive seminars to date.  We left about 4:45 to try to get home before dark.  One funny thing happened on the way home.  Dwaine said early on that he thought that we would get home about the same time if we had gone to Salcoatitan.  As timing would have it, when we drove by the church in Salcoatitan, we passed Carlos and Linda pulling out!  Once home, Dwaine did some studying, but I called it an early night.  

Seminar in Mira Monte,San Salvador