Monday we did normal Monday stuff, shopping, cleaning, laundry, all the stuff you have to do no matter where you live or what your job is or however glamorous your life may sound to someone else. There is always the daily and weekly maintenance part of life to get through, either happily and gratefully that we are able to do it or grumpily because we have to do it, as in all things the choice of the attitude is ours!
We had planned on going to a fireside/family home evening at Brother Chris Pavey's house but there were blockeos all over town again. This time the bus drivers were protesting! The town was totally shut down as far as anyone being able to drive anywhere! This was the second time we were going to his house, he has done a lot of research on Book of Mormon Historical Sites and gives an interesting presentation about it, we hear. I think he subscribes to the same theory as the BYU professor Allan that a lot of the Book of Mormon took place in this area and further south. Anyway we will try again tomorrow.
Instead for family night we went across the street to Pres. and Sis. Madsen's house and had an informal discussion and cake and ice cream.
After 2 weeks of no rain we have again had some rain this week, when it rains it doesn't just sprinkle! But it doesn't last long and then the sky is beautiful blue again. It is definitely warming up a bit, although I wouldn't call it really hot, some days are a bit muggy.
The temple was about normal for busy this week, we had 1 bus Thursday, this bus came from Acapulco, on the coast in Guererro. This is where they are having so many problems right now. They had to come the long way around because of bandits on the roads in the mountains the short way, it took 15 hours to get here. They were mostly pretty poor people, 2 men asked dad if they could use the temples clothes and were very teary eyed, they said they had had all their own clothes but their homes were broken into and their temple clothes were stolen. They were such humble, sweet, people and they are having such a difficult time right now, tourism has been their main industry, but because of the dangers in Acapulco tourism is down to almost nothing. They stayed over and we had 2 more busses come on Friday, and a total of 6 on Saturday. We are going to start opening earlier on Wed. and having 2 morning sessions, as the one we have is always too full, it is local and local missionaries so that is really good. We will then go home for a few hours and come back for the 2 evening sessions, we have also been adding an extra evening session occasionally when a Stake requests it. We hope that means when the temple in Mexico City opens in Sept. we will still be busy.
Happy birthday this coming Sunday to Miss Rebeca, you are getting too old young lady! Maybe you shouldn't have any more birthdays until after we come home! We love you and miss you.
We have started to read the conference talks, they were all so good and it is even better to be able to read them and stop and discuss and ponder them. We are so blessed to have these modern day scriptures to read and learn from.
We are so grateful to be serving here each day in the temple, we love the people here and are amazed at the sacrifices they make to serve and work in the House of the Lord.
I will end for the week with this thought from President Monson
"To live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven."
How grateful we are for each of you, for your love and support, you are always in our thoughts, hearts, and prayers.
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| They are working on Sunday now, they are getting the steel in the wall areas and ready to start building up. |
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