Dinner with Friends

I totally forgot to take pictures on Tuesday evening, but we had a great dinner with friends here at the apartment.  My two co-leaders from Hilo, Aguja y Biblia, Maria Elena and Isabel, and their husbands, Mauricio and Luis, joined us for dinner.  

The menu was Italian all the way, including Artichoke Salsa (recipe) as the appetizer, Baked Chicken Kiev, whole wheat pasta and spaghetti sauce, green salad with poppy seed dressing (recipe) and garlic bread.  Dessert was a peach pie cookie (recipe) with vanilla ice cream and salted caramel sauce (recipe.)  The dinner was as healthy as I could make it.  As far as the loaf of garlic bread and vanilla ice cream, they are part of the "all things in moderation" category, right?.  Thankfully, everything turned out delicious.

However, the company was even better than the food.  Besides being good friends, Maria Elena and Isabel are sisters-in-law.  Isabel is married to Maria Elena's brother.  It was nice to spend time with their husbands.  Mauricio is an artist--one of the well-known painters in El Salvador.  Some of his paintings hang in the national art museum.  Here are some examples of his beautiful work.

Isabel's husband, Luis, graduated from Texas A&M, is an engineer who works with installations of water wells and facilities to bring clean water to the people of El Salvador.  

It's wonderful to see how God brings people together . . . we were honored to have these wonderful men/women of God in our home.  I've loved getting to know Maria Elena and Isabel and we are looking forward to spending more time with both of these great couples.