Change of Plans

What can I say - I prepared quite intensely for the last week for the classes I was to teach all day Saturday and I went to the La Reforma church, a second EMC church here in Cuauhtemoc, where the classes were to take place and nervously awaited the arrival of the students. The director, a fellow missionary, Maria Bergen waited there with me. A couple hours after the first class was to start and after numerous phone calls we cancelled the classes and postponed until next month.
It seems like there were weddings, sicknesses, and whatever other reasons for the some 15 students that were not able to make it out - I told the director it was likely because they heard that some gringo from Canada was going to be doing the teaching?!
While it was disappointing at first, the day actually turned out great as during the couple hours that we waited at the church I was able to talk to the director and her husband, Isaac, and catch up with these old friends and find out lots of stuff about how things are going in many of our Conference churches around the state here in Chihuahua. This will be a huge help to me as we will be travelling around a fair bit connecting with many of these churches over the next several months - I am already booked to speak in a country church next Sunday, Santo Tomas, a church that has had quite a bit of leadership struggles over the last couple of years.
I got home before lunch, much to the surprise of Sandy and the kids, and spent the rest of the morning and most of the afternoon helping Sandy do lots of loads of laundry and sweep, dust and mop the whole house!
As a treat at the end of the day we went out for supper to Los Arcos, and had a fun evening together!
This morning we again went to the Ebenezeer church for Worship Service and Sunday School (they do things in that order). This afternoon I need to finish preparing a bible study for the youth group that happens at 6 p.m. tonight.
The week ahead looks like it will be busy, for sure and then, Lord willing, next Saturday morning we will put the kids into Awana at our church during the morning hours (I'm sure we will help out there as well) and then after lunch head out to Santo Tomas and spend the rest of the day and night at the Conference campground before going to the church on Sunday morning to serve.
Thank you all for your prayers - we continue to pray, with thanksgiving, for all of those that come to mind on a daily basis!
Gerald