Week of May 25th to May 31, 2015 Afternoon at the Para's House

Happy Birthday to Robyn this week, thank you for all you do for us, we appreciate it so much!

Monday morning Ross and I got a call to come to the temple, Mondays are cleaning days at the temple and the ward that came to clean had such a big group that they did a session before cleaning and they called  us to come help with the veil, it was a fun way to start our week. We stopped by the grocery store on our way home an got that chore out of the way, then came home and finished the cleaning and laundry just in time to go with everyone to the Para's house for the afternoon.

The Para's are a couple that are temple coordinators on Tuesday  ad Friday evenings, they are the nicest couple and they wanted the  Temple Presidency and the missionaries to come to their house for dinner. Here that means an afternoon or evening get together. We arrived at two and left at about 6:00. They have a beautiful place, they have lived there for 48 years! They have avocado, mango, peach, lime,  date, and orange trees. as well as ornamental trees. They have a home for them, their son and daughter on the property. It is so pretty. They treated us like royalty and the food was so good. We sat on the patio and ate and talked and ate and talked.

This is the entire group, brother and sister Para are on the left, their grandson is next to Brother Para, he is also a Temple worker and is leaving for his mission in a week.

Part of the Yard

More of the Yard

Side Yard and back of the House

Avacado tree, avacados produce all year long!

Chris Norman and Sister Atkinson

Normans and Peñas

I don't think Sister Para even sat down to eat, she was up waiting on everyone constantly.
 

Para's grandson Lamoni Diaz picking dates

This is an artifact they found on the property




Pretty much a normal week in the temple, we had 2 busses that came on Thursday and stayed until Saturday afternoon, Friday was busy with 5 more added to the 2 already there. Saturday we were expecting 2 more and they canceled so it was pretty slow. Ross has been doing some training for his new responsibilities in the office and I have also started to train as a secretary in the office. We are happy and healthy and love serving in our beautiful little temple, each day brings blessings and challenges and each day brings the Lord's tender mercies to show us how much love he has for each of His children. We really do feel that we are blessed to serve with  some of the very best people on the earth.