Back to blessed work

Friday we went back to the hospital to serve.  We had a bit of trouble with security as to where we can store our bicycles.  We won’t know until Monday when the head of security comes in.  We also talked with the guard who works near the information desk.  He lives in Reynosa and says it is not as dangerous there as is reported.  In fact it is mostly the police that are corrupt and get murdered.  He is not sympathetic.  We stayed home Friday night because our park has not begun dances yet.  Saturday we checked about the Silver Sneakers at the local gym.  We will likely go on Monday.  Evelyn wanted to go to McAllen to look for furniture, so we bought a love seat and sofa for our Texas room.  We now have to get rid of our current sofa.  I put an ad on Craig’s List and got a hit on Sunday.  We were home in time to watch the Purdue/IU football game.  Purdue won and is bowl eligible but may not get a bid.  If they do, it will be a very minor one.  I barbecued the 2 steaks we had bought Monday, but I must have not had the coals hot enough because we had to finish 1 of them in the microwave oven.  We shared it and continued grilling the other.  We will have it later this week.  Of course I had to review Sunday’s message.  We only had 11 in attendance at Trail’s End but that may be due to so few people’s being here.  Many people are either late or not coming this year.  I went to Llano Grande where they normally have over 200 but had only 154 today.  We came home for lunch, and I spent most of the day preparing next week’s message.  Evelyn worked on decorating some of the house Christmas decorations.  We will work on the outdoors this coming week.  It was windy again today and the temperature dropped greatly, so Evelyn took her plants into the shed and covered the new hibiscus plant.  We walked around the park in the evening because the wind had diminished greatly.  We will have our new furniture delivered Wednesday and hope to sell the old before then.  I really enjoy bring the message of hope and forgiveness to those willing to come to worship, but it is very time consuming.