I woke up at 5:30, still tired. I worked on finishing the lesson for tonight
for an hour while I ate some cereal. At 6:30 Clifton and I left to go to
Spanish class. We read a story about a greedy boy who got too many marbles all
in Spanish. Class lasted until 9:00; then we went to get some more food. We
arrived at Carlos’ house at 9:30 and helped Jose (the gentleman who can’t walk
and only has one working lung) get in the car. Carlos’ mom, Maria, thankfully
came along with us. We had quite a time finding the hospital; we had to stop
and ask 5 people for directions. The parking was crazy. We finally found a spot
and Maria left us for 30 minutes and then came back with a permit to park
inside the gate surrounding the hospital. We drove through the gate and up to
the door for Clifton to unload the oxygen machine. Then Maria pointed down the
hill and said some stuff in Spanish that ended with park the car. So I guessed
that we were supposed to park and wait for her. We waited for about 30 minutes
when Jose started saying in Spanish that his back hurt and he wanted to see
Maria. We didn’t know what to do. Then I got a call from Carlos saying that his
mom was in front of the hospital looking for me. So I went to the spot where we
dropped her off but she was not there. I waited, standing in the rain, for over
an hour for her. Carlos called several times but couldn’t communicate, I called
Della and she called Linda (Carlos’ wife) several times. I felt hopeless.
Finally Della called and said that Maria was outside of the gate that
surrounded the hospital. I hadn’t looked out there because, once you are out they
will not let you back in. I got in the car and started making blocks around the
area. After about 10 minutes I found Maria wondering around about a block away.
She had a small bag of parts and the machine was gone. I do not know how she
got there or how I was supposed to know, but whatever. At this point I thought
that we surely had more to do, Jose had not been needed for anything so I
thought maybe we were about to take him to the doctor. But, Maria suggested
that we go get some lunch. We drove around Santa Ana a bit and finally gave up
looking for food and decided to go back to Ahuachapán. When we got there we
found a parking spot about 200 feet from Pollo Comparo. We had a good lunch and
Maria treated. Clifton and I got home at 4:00 and I crawled in to bed for a 30
minute nap. At 5:10 Clifton, Fred, and I left for the bible study in Shucutitan.
The lesson went well and there was a good crowd. I taught on Psalms 56 with
Hector translating. Hector announced that tomorrow is father’s day here which
means that everyone is off of work so we could all work on building the houses
together. Fred said that sounded like a great idea so we are going to be
joining them. The original plans for tomorrow were to go to a waterpark with
Samuel to celebrate his 20
th birthday but he called earlier and said
he couldn’t get transportation. We got home around 7:00 and Bryan came over for
a game of Power Grid. Fred played too. This was Fred’s first time to ever play
a real board game. Clifton ended up winning at 9:30.
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| Della walking out of the house we might move to |
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| Maria and Jose |
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