Sunday - Señor Fuga

Some of you seem to think that the car had been fixed. We can only wish!!

I left you after the party Saturday night. Sunday morning we all went to church. All eleven of us and two bathrooms. We all made it! John and I were scheduled to share Sunday morning. The church was the same where we had the women's meeting Saturday morning. The service started promptly at 9:30 am. We had 45 minutes of singing and praising. Then the pastor had about 15 minutes of prayer for different members of the congregation, announcements and offering, and it was our turn to speak. We had 45 minutes. We spoke about what we are doing here and how we use friendship evangelism. The pastor closed with prayer.

We were hoping to hear from the mechanic on Sunday, so that we could go pick up our car, since we were leaving Monday. We finally got hold of the mechanic, but the news were grim: he thought it was the oil pump, but was not sure. If that is not the problem, we will have to replace the entire engine. Please pray that this man can fix the problem. The car would not be ready for us to drive it home on Monday! :( Our friend had to fly out to El Salvador to a COMIBAM conference on Monday, so it was decided that we would drop him off at the airport and then drive his car home. He will return from his trip on June 2nd. In the meantime, his friend who recommended mechanic #2 would try to get updates from him, email our friend, and he would email us. It is always complicated here. We now call our car Sr. Fuga (Mr. Leak).

Sunday afternoon we went to purchase the easy chair that our friend has always wanted, since he had enough money from his birthday presents. By this time it was pouring rain. We were in two cars because the whole family wanted to participate in the event. We went to the closest mall, which wasn't that close, but they did not have what he was looking for; therefore, we went to the other side of the city in the middle of a downpour, to the biggest mall around. It took us an hour to drive across town. This mall is huge, and it has all the designer stores, such as Carolina Herrera, and other famous names. It is in the wealthiest part of town. We went to a couple of furniture stores, and finally, there it was!! The chair of his dreams. In the US we would have gone to the Lazyboy store and would have found what he wanted right away, but easy chairs are not very popular in this country. It took us the entire afternoon to find it. By the time we got home it was already dark and time to start packing. We had a nice time of prayer, singing and thanksgiving, and we all got busy packing...

Carlos trying on his chair at the store.

This is not the end of the story...stay tuned...until then....from the beach...