Corbett's Houston Helpers

 We had another job seeker get baptized 2 Saturdays ago. We went to the baptism, which was especially nice. His mother was there to support him even though she is not a member. I thought that was extra special that she would be willing to do that.  While we were at the baptism, we visited with a lady there and found out that she taught Spanish for 35 years in high school. We asked her if she would be willing to teach at the English Connect classes and she said that she would love to. So she has come to the last two classes and is helping teach another Level 1 class. She and her husband are also helping a Venezuelan family that I met about 2 months ago. He has his legal work permit and SS# so her husband is having Luis help him with work projects that he has as a handyman. This is a picture of her. She has to use a walker but still gets around quite well. Her name is Sister Saldaña. She is going to be a big help to us at English Connect.  I had a man come into the Employme...

 It looks like I'm just going to have to plan on posting on the blog every two weeks.  I am really having a hard time finding enough time to be able to do it.  We have had some terrible storms in the last few weeks with hundreds of thousands of people losing power. We have been very fortunate that we haven't lost our power, but we did lose the air conditioning and internet at the office for about a week. We don't have to be out in the hot weather too much. Just from the apartment to the car, and from the car to the office, so it doesn't create a big problem for us. We lost the use of our elevator again for about a week and a half. We had to make multiple trips up and down 4 flights of stairs when we bought groceries.  The big cases of bottled water we had to split up and each carry about 6 bottles each time we got back to the apartment.  They finally got the elevator fixed two days ago so we are back in business.  A week ago from yesterday, we went to a bap...