Caleb & Della: 8/22/14: Day 173: Citalá

At 7:30 we went to the laboratory for Della. Then I went to the market to get ice and a couple of Sprites. We left the house at 8:00 and went to Ahuachapán to check on some copies that we had ordered. They were still not finished so we continued on to Santa Ana to cash the insurance refund check. This is the third bank that I have had to go to and thankfully they accepted it. Then we continued driving for a very long time. We saw some beautiful landscape of El Salvador that we had never seen before. Lucky, Della, and I arrived in Citalá at 11:50. We were there for Lucky to visit a friend and to see the work that is being accomplished. A man named Marcos and his wife (Bessy) has been working with a small congregation there for the past one and a half years. We ate a picnic lunch with Bessy and then we toured the church building. The city of Citalá has a population of about 2000 people and about 14 regularly attend the services. There is a big catholic church and several other denominations. As we walked across town Marcos seemed to know everyone and he had an outgoing personality. We also met another missionary from the U.S. that was three months into her year commitment. After exploring the town we got in the car and traveled to two neighboring cities and visited the church of Christ in each. We first went to San Ignacio which has 60-70 members. Then we continued to La Palma which is a bit smaller but it has a school that is attached and some housing. There is a church in the states for each of the three and each sends a small mission group here twice a year. Marcos said that there were about 200 people who came to the campaign that the mission group coordinated in Citalá last month. We finished our time together by going to eat at Pollo Campero (Basically KFC). We left at 6:00 and I was a bit nervous having to travel through the middle of nowhere in the dark. I counted seven different crossing signs! There was a crossing sign for: rabbits, lizards, cats, cows, people, dude on a horse, and turtles! I wish I had gotten pictures of all of them. We got home around 9:00 and went to bed shortly after.