I woke up feeling a bit panicked about not having the Friday
teen lesson ready. I needed to get it done ASAP so that Della could translate
it. Hector and everyone started work painting at the church at 8:00. I walked
over at 8:30 and told Hector that I needed this morning to work on the lesson.
I worked until 10:30 and felt a lot less panicked so I went back to the church
and helped Lucky organize the supply room for an hour. Then I took lunch orders
and went to the house with Lucky to prepare the food. I prepared five sandwiches
and Della prepared three burritos. Then I took them back to the church building
and after lunch I painted trim for two hours. Lucky stayed with Della to help
her translate the lesson I wrote earlier. I painted all the trim in a room
while a man named Serafim painted the walls with the roller. This was my first
time to meet Serafim and he spoke English really well so we talked as we
painted. At 2:00 I went back to the house to work on the lesson a bit more.
At 3:00 Della and I went with Carlos to attend the funeral
for the lady that passed away yesterday. For funerals here, the casket is put
in a glass case on the back of a pickup truck. Everyone solemnly walks along
side as it slowly goes through the town and finally to the cemetery. The
cemetery was very full and overgrown with mostly crosses over graves with no
plaques. My heart ached because of the time the man will have to spend without
his wife.
After the funeral Della and I went back home and had some
dinner. At 5:30 we attended the Wednesday night service and then went back home
to study.
There will be more painting tomorrow!
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