4/8/14: Day 37: Fail to get Police Records

Carlos met us at the bus stop at 7:10 and we arrived at Hector’s house for the team meeting at 7:30. The meeting was about the schedule for the week and a little bit of next week.

Meeting highlights / upcoming events to pray about
· April 19^th - Youth in Action rally in San Salvador (7 hours of driving)
· April 14^th – April 22^nd A mission group from Puerto Rico will be working in El Salvador with us
· April 18^th – The Puerto Rico mission group will be working in Ataco!
· April 14^th – April 20^nd Holy week! Basically Easter is celebrated all week long.

Holy week is a really big deal here. Hector said that April 18^th -20^th Ataco is basically locked down. He said it took him two hours last year to drive from Ataco to Ahuachapán which is normally a 30 minute drive. The youth rally is probably going to be a nightmare of traffic in a suffocating hot van. Hector challenged each of us to make ten new contacts by next Tuesday for the Puerto Rico mission group to work with. This will be a major challenge for me… with the language barrier and all.

After the meeting, Carlos, Lucky, Della, and I followed Hector and his family to Santa Ana. Our first stop was the police station to get our records for the visa. When we got there they told us “Nice try but you will have to go to San Salvador” (My paraphrase of what they said in Spanish). So we went on to Vidrí to pick up the sofa we bought almost two weeks ago. At Vidrí we also bought a computer chair. I just told Della that I hate this char… Hate that I didn’t have it sooner ;p. We then went to the mall for Lucky to go to the bank. While she was in the bank, Della and I went to Siman and found the only crockpot in El Salvador. It was expensive so I didn’t really want to buy it but when Lucky met us she said she would pay some. We bought the crockpot and then went to the food court for lunch. After lunch we drove back to Ahuachapán to get food bags to help some families in need. While Carlos and I were getting the food, Della and Lucky went to Ban Ban for a snack. We then went to the church building to unload the food. We got back to the house at 2:30 and Della and Lucky left to teach a ladies’ class. I waited for Hector to come get his furniture. I finally called at 3:40 to ask if he was going to make it and he said not today. I was a bit dehydrated so I laid down for a few minutes then left for the small group study at 5:00. I met Della there and she said that her lesson went really well and several of the women from the study came to the small group tonight! After the study Della, Lucky, and I went to the Pupusaria for dinner.

This week and next should be exciting!