Caleb & Della: 9/7/14: Day 189: Lantern Festival

Morning service went mostly as usual. When it was time for announcements Carlos told the church that little Charlotte is scheduled to arrive Friday at 3:00 PM! Then the teens came to the house for class and Paolo taught. He did a great job and used a crisp twenty as an illustration. He asked if anyone wanted it all crisp and then he crushed it and threw it on the floor and stomped on it. Then he asked if they still wanted it and his point was that no matter what we have been through we still have value to God. Even though the Israelites turned to idols, God still wanted them to come back. After lunch, around 1:30, Sarita came over to get Lucky to help her with homework. She had to translate a paragraph that was about the longest river in El Salvador and Lucky made me help. There was no afternoon service today due to lantern festival today. Lucky and I went out to watch the setup around 4:00 and Lucky bought a strange fruit that neither of us had ever seen or heard of before. Then Della, Lucky and I all went out together to see it all lit up at 7:00. The town was packed; maybe the most crowded I have seen it. Almost every home was opened trying to sell something out their front door. It was a full moon tonight and we hoped that between that and the walking little Charlotte might flip… But, no luck. I bought Charlotte some spider earrings but when I got home I looked at them more closely and discovered that they only had six legs. So I guess I bought Charlotte some poor mutilated spider earrings. I greatly enjoyed walking around seeing all the festivities.