Day 108-Meeting and a fiesta

Ingles Norte (they share with 3 spanish congregations)

Cory and Emily with the family they are studying with

Meeting started at 10:00am and Cory swung by at 9:30 to pick us up. It was us, Lluvia, Alondra and Miguelito, Cory and, wait, where’s Emily? On the toilet? Oops, I guess it wasn’t my gall bladder after all. Cory didn’t think she would make it to the meeting but she called and said she would be there. Yikes. We think she toughed it out because she had studies coming to the meeting and didn’t want to miss. They study with a family of 4: dad, mom, son, and daughter. The kids have been studying English for 2 years and speak very well. Mom and Dad not so much.          But they are progressing well. They are in chapter 5 of the Bible Teach book.

There was 35 people at the meeting-a nice size group. I gave the talk on Mercy which I’ve never given in English so I was somewhat translating from my Spanish notes-Leah said I did good considering. She said it was way harder than she thought it would be to give a comment in English from her Spanish WT. 

"Our kids" that came with us to the meeting

Posole anyone? - I'm not sure if we'll have enough

Emily went home to rest because they were invited over at 5 for posole. On the way to bring us home we stopped to get to kilos of fresh tortillas and then at the market to buy some rotisserie chickens that come with salsa. Cory and Erik bought 4 for like $12. We ate our “snack” as we wanted to save room   for posole. Miguel and Dolores had invited over a bunch of friends from the hall. Sonia came over to help her make the posole-there’s different variations-green or red with pork or chicken. They made green posole with chicken. Posole is hominy in the states I think. You buy it dried and then cook it all day with seasonings and chicken. Then when you serve it you add in onions, lettuce, radish, green salsa and avocado. Needless to say, one bowl is very filling but scrumptious. It was about 90 degrees so you can imagine how much we sweated eating spicy hot soup, but it was worth it. They seem to have some really nice friends here in the congregation and we enjoyed spending time with them.

Playing Jenga

We said goodbye to Cory and Emily but we’ll see them soon-they’re coming home in June. And since they’re driving we took advantage and left them a bag to bring-we’re having a bit of a weight problem, with the bags that is. I, on the other hand, am at an all time low, thanks in part to my “intestinal” challenges. I know what you’re thinking, I have no idea how it’s possible either.

Miguel, Miguelito and I chatting

Making iced coffee

After everyone left, Alondra and I made fancy iced coffee drinks. She had bought all the ingredients a few days before and was really excited. The were quite rich-but tasty. With all that caffeine we were all wide awake and stayed up playing a game with the family (and their friend Nora) until 12:30-it's been a long time since we laughed that hard.