A glorious day

Sunday was a blessing. Last night we went to a small Nazarene church in Weslaco for a gospel jam. One of our friends from Trail’s End had invited us because he plays drums for them. To our surprise John Hamel was playing keyboard and another who worships with us, Billie Lovelace, sang a couple of songs. He surprised us by introducing us to the small group in attendance. Back to today. He sang for us during the offering. We decided to give the offering above my pay to the Haitian Relief fund. We collected $75 including the $5 I gave. We will give much more through Lutheran Hour Ministries, Compassion International and World Vision. We had 55 in attendance and 3 regular couples were missing. The Lord must be using my messages to His glory. I pray that is the case. We came home and ate some of our meal left from our carry-out Thursday. We have enough left for 4 delicious meals. It was a sunny day and Evelyn sat in the sun for a while as I began preparation for next Sunday. We are planning a dinner for some friends but must make the final plans soon because we are relatively Evelyn will need the thyroid surgery. We took a nap before taking a bike ride. We decided to invite 3 couples for supper on Wednesday. They cook all of the time for the hall, and we thought it would be nice to entertain them. We got an affirmation from 2 couples but haven’t seen the other. Evelyn mopped the floor so I went out and lopped off many branches from the poinsettia tree that had frozen last week and also some hibiscus and bougainvillea that had suffered the same end. I got a nice scratch and gouge on my right hand while working. I popped corn for our supper while Evelyn washed out the refrigerator so we could shop for the ingredients we will need for the King Ranch casserole we will serve. The grocery was not as full as often so we got home around 9:30. We plan to go to Mexico tomorrow morning for teeth cleaning, etc. We were disappointed that Emily didn’t call us today, but we did get to talk with Stacy.