Today I woke up eager to finish the wardrobes. Della cooked
pancakes for breakfast and then I worked on the wardrobes from 6:30 until
11:00. I was exhausted when I finally finished. They gave us a number to call
and they said someone would come and put them together but I thought I could
put them together faster but now I wish I had called. On the 11th
day of being here in El Salvador we finally got to unpack! It feels so
wonderful not living out of a plastic bins anymore. We ate leftover pupusas for
lunch. Then we waited for Carlos to arrive for evangelism. While we waited I
worked on studying Genesis while Della took a nap. Carlos arrived at 2:40 and
we (Carlos, Della, and I) set out for the place that was our second stop
yesterday to present a bible. When we got there he was taking his siesta so we
left the bible with one of his children and continued on our way. The second
house was another contact that we had made last summer, it was an older man and
wife who had lots of pets, cat, dog, pigeons, turtles, and a rooster. We talked
with the man for a while and he said his wife was to the point of no longer
eating. While we were talking I got a call from Rachel saying that Lucky had
been sick to her stomach all morning and that was why she didn’t go to Linda’s
house today. Then I went back in and continued the study. While we were talking
we heard his wife coughing and we asked if we could see her. I wish you could
see the heart wrenching sight I beheld. She was a precious lady, thin as a rail
and very confused. We knelt and prayed with her and after the prayer she kept
calling out me “mi hijo” which means “my son”.
We left and stood and studied with younger guy around the corner. While
we were talking to him the children of the family we studied with last
yesterday came up. The boy’s name was Nestor age 10 and the girl’s name was
Estefany age 8. Nestor kept showing off by twisting his foot backward and
rolling his eyelids and it totally grossed Della out. A lady selling sweat
bread came by and I bought a dollars’ worth and shared with everyone. After
Carlos finished talking to the younger guy at the house we continued talking to
the kids for a while and then the younger man sent his cousin to invite us to
have coffee with them. We couldn’t refuse so this was the first cup Della has
had this year and the first cup I have had in many years. I had mine loaded
down with sugar. Then we walked across town to what looked like it used to be a
barbershop and studied with an older lady there. While we were studying I got a
call from Rachel saying the Hector was sick from the spots on his body and that
he wouldn’t be able to make it to the small group tonight. So we walked back to
the house for a quick snack. Carlos said that he hadn’t had peanut since he visited
the states. We then went across town to the small group study. Today the small
group was very small, I counted 2 adults. On the way home we stopped by the
market and got some bananas and hangers.
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