7/12/14: Day 132: Sad Day

Maria passed as a result of the accident last night. 22 people were on the back of the pickup truck when the brakes went out. One child is still in critical condition, Maria passed, and all others have various non-life threating injuries. They were on their way to the funeral for Maria’s mother. It is hard to imagine; Edgardo, Manel, Soila, plus more I don’t know, lost their mom on the way to their grandmother’s funeral. Della and Jennifer decided to stay at the house for the morning. Mom stayed up till 2:00 organizing the leadership class and then at 4:30 she came in and woke up Clifton saying “it is 5:30, time to get up”. She had failed to adjust her alarm so she had only 2 hours of sleep last night. Phil, Clifton, Bradley, and I arrived at the hotel at 7:00. Mom and the others working with the leadership left for Ciudad Real to do the first 4 hour presentation for the day. The rest of us went to eat pancakes for breakfast at the church building. Brandon led the morning devotional thoughts and then I took the construction crew to Turin. Then I came back to the park where the evangelism team was working out from and called Lucky to tell her what had happened with the accident. I joined up with Phil and Osvaldo. We had two good bible studies and managed to schedule another for 2:00. Our team kept busy right up to time for lunch. After spaghetti for lunch we had a bit of time so about 20 from the group walked for 15 minutes to the wonderful ice cream store. Then I took Houston, Clifton, and James up to the house to get Jennifer. They had a big screen set up in the park for the world cup which could be seen from my house. Della decided to stay home and continue resting so we all left to meet up with the VBS group. I retrieved the construction group at 3:30. We had tacos for dinner and then Jeremy led the gospel meeting. Afterwards we loaded all the chairs and took down the canopies. Then Phil and I went back to the church building in Ahuachapán to unload the canopies and chairs. Mom was there at the hotel, still awake after giving two four presentations on two hours of sleep. Her presentations were completely in Spanish because they were short on interpreters. We organized a group of us to go to Shucutitan and show our support for the family by attending the wake for Maria. There was a multitude of people. Some words were said by the sons and we sang for a while. She will be missed because her family made up nearly half the church.

We got home and went to bed by 11:00.

Being Teens

Construction Progress