Caleb & Della: 3/20/14: Day 18: Car & Dog!!!

I was the first to arrive at the church building 8:00 to resume painting. I was eager to redeem myself because I hate painting so much that I gave a half-hearted effort yesterday. Hector publicly thanked everyone during service last night while I shook my head and he laughed said that I only painted for an hour (I actually painted for at least two…). Carlos, Hector, Lucky and Serafim arrived soon after and Hector announced that today was car day and that we would have to leave at 9:30 to go to Santa Ana to get the paperwork complete. Yay, an excuse not to paint! I held the ladder for Carlos’ dad while he knocked stuff off the roof and tried to make some repairs. He told me to be careful not to look up and that I needed a helmet. I managed to hold the ladder under the roof from inside the house for protection. While I was holding the ladder Della and Lucky went to the market. At 9:40 Hector, Della, and I drove to the public health building for Hector to get documents for the dental brigade. We then continued on to the mall at Santa Ana and had Pizza Hut for lunch while we waited for Osvaldo to arrive. We then drove to the lawyer’s office to write up a bill of sale. The lawyer used an editing program that must have been from the 80s; it had no mouse and looked like the original dos prompt blue editor. After waiting for a while he called us into his office for signatures and his previous machine, an old typewriter. Then we went to another building to pay the taxes but they said I had to have an identification card. We didn’t know where that was so we went over to Osvaldo’s brother’s (Daniel) house for Osvaldo to have lunch. But sadly, on the way, Della spotted a guy selling puppies in front of the mall and Osvaldo said we had time to stop. We did and Della fell in love with a giant puppy. I said that will be a horse dog before you know it. I told her no and she got sad and we went on our way. After lunch Daniel went with us and showed us where the ID place was; right behind the prison. I now have an El Salvadorian ID! We went back to pay the taxes and they took the papers and said I will have to return in 8 days to get the vehicle ID card in my name. Then we took Osvaldo to the mall and Hector said he would like to see the dogs because he was interested in one for himself. We managed to find the pet shop but Hector couldn’t find one that he liked. We ended up buying the soon to be horse dog (Lobito). Then we went back to the mall to get Osvaldo and his family. While we waited I got ice cream and Della stayed with the dog and talked to the security guard. The guard was nice and funny, he said in Spanish “Spanish must be harder to learn than English because I knew a lot of Spanish people that can speak English but very few the other ways around”. Funny… and he didn’t speak English. Osvaldo arrived and we took him back to Ahuachapán and then rushed to the evening small group bible study. After the study Della and I went to the market and we bought dog food and stuff. When we got to the house Lobito had gotten stuck behind the pool and when we let him out he peed on the floor. Hector then called and said “is Lobito feliz en su casa”, I told him I sure hoped that Lobito didn’t bring fleas in our house!