Tuesday Day 8

(Villahermosa is where we will be spending most of our time here you can click on the aforementioned city name to see where it is on the map.)

Candace, Chad and I went preaching this morning with the group from the hall. We all went into one territory to search for English speaking, which happened to be next to where we worked on Saturday. It was slightly raining but that didn't deter us. I worked with Teresa and Chad with Casper.

I was able to try to return on Diana, who Chad placed magazines with on Saturday morning. Teresa made up for my bad Spanish, when asking her grandma about her. She apparently lives in Veracruz during the week and comes home to help in the little store on weekends. I was able to leave her with my phone number if she wanted to try to call me and told her grandma I would try to find her then.

Chad found a high schooler, Moses, off on his two month break from school. He was able to talk with him about the meaning of natural disasters from the December magazines and arranged to return on Saturday to discuss how to make good friends. They spoke with him for a good 10 to 15 minutes.

The rain picked up forcing us to go elsewhere or go home. We decided to go to the new mall, Alta Brisas, and public witness. We placed quite a few magazines that way and as many shops are still setting up the crowds were light and we were able to take time with shop owners and workers. This also gave us an opportunity to look for contacts for Chad as he decided not to bring them, but now wants a pair. Most contacts are not kept in stock which made the time to get them 8-15 days; not good if we want to go one day next week to the beach.

We ran out of ones to speak with so we moved on to the plaza, Ol Meca. There we placed more tracts and magazines in English and Spanish. Candace and I were approached as we went from shop to shop by a woman who had lived in NYC for 3 years. Then as were in a Sally's Beauty Supply looking for hair dye supplies another woman, Silvia overheard us speaking in English and approached us to ask where we were from. She and her Witness husband live in Arkansas and are here in Villahermosa to visit family. She told us that she is learning at the meetings but they go one week to a Spanish congregation and one week to English back in the States. Silvia was surprised to hear that Candace lives here and that we would want to visit.

The best part of my day though was taking a peak in one of the fancier stores that I know from home, Cache. In asking if anyone spoke English, the shop owner pushed her 9yrs(?) old son out to speak with me. Joseph is learning at school and had an eagerness to practice speaking with me as I was with him. He told me he had just had his first exam from their Cambridge curriculum. I placed a tract with him on Will This World Survive and showed him the picture that God promises for the earth in the near future. We spoke of the weather and I showed him pictures of snow, on my phone. In waiting for the others to finish in other shops, he came out to find me and where he could learn more. I gave him a handbill to invite him to the meetings and told him, no collections taken but bring your Bible. We will see. :) I can't wait to return to speak with him.

We also had the start of the CO visit in which we have two couples for the week. A younger brother, Tanner (raised in Colorado) and his wife, Lauren (raised in Texas) are being trained to substitute. The current CO and his wife (David and Esther) are from London, England. Chad was asked to demonstrate how to use the Good News for All Nations brochure, last minute by Tanner. He and a brother we met last year, Carlos Barrillos, informed but entertained the congregation; apparently Chad is Chinese.

Funny experience of the day: Ryan accidently flushed a spoon down the toilet the other day when we were cleaning up blueing shampoo off the closet floor. Don't ask Candace- it's a sore spot. However, today the toilet was backing up so Ryan was plunging it and up pops the cleanest spoon you ever saw, literally. Needless to say the spoon was retrieved and thrown out. :)