Week of June 8th to June 14th, 2015 Learning Week

Happy, happy birthday today to Clark, it was great to talk to you and hear all about Scout Camp, it sounds like you had a great week. Let us know when you decide on that Eagle project, and keep working you are so close!

Monday we got together (us and Roesberrys and Normans) at Norman's house, after our normal Monday cleaning etc., we had Chinese food, John made chicken in peanut sauce and sweet and sour chicken and I fried the chicken wings. Every thing was yummy but we had enough that we all got together and ate it for the lunch the next day. We also watched a video together and then we went with the Roesberrys and the Peñas to a missionary family night farewell and setting apart. It seems to be a tradition here to invite family and close friends to meet at the church the night before the missionary leaves for a short farewell,  part of the family and the missionary bear their testimonies and then the missionary is set apart. We worked with the young man in the temple and with his grandparents, dad trained him as a worker, and got pretty close to him in the 3 months he worked with us. Anyway it was a pretty special evening and a fun tradition.

Tuesday and Wednesday we mostly worked in the office learning our new responsibilities, Ross has a lot to do and a lot to learn. A temple recorder or assistant recorder is a big deal, his letter of recommendation has to be signed by one of the 1st Presidency, 2 of the Quorum of the of the 12 and the both the heads of the missionary department and temple department. He is learning lots of new things, like how to build spreadsheets and take notes and make agendas, plus he is reading handbooks and learning policy. I on the other hand am trying to learn more Spanish so I can be more efficient when I have to answer the phone and so I can understand people who need help in the office, and I am brushing up on my Family Search skills so I can help people who come with names that have problems. I went to the first secretaries meeting this afternoon and the secretaries are delightful. I think I will love getting to know them and working with them. We both pray we are capable of this new opportunity and know it will be a learning and growing experience for us.

We will be so sad to see the Normans go, they are such great friends, it is hard to imagine life here without them. We enjoy spending time with them and have learned so much from them. Besides we will miss Brother Normans cooking.

Thursday we had several buses and Friday we held a marathon of Baptisms, the kids were out of school and so we scheduled baptisms all day. We went in for about 3 hours but then came home, each Stake brought their own workers and they didn't need us and since we had worked nearly 13 hours the day before we took most of the day off. Sat. we  were supposed to have 9 busses but I don't think they all came, we worked from 6:30 to about 3:00.  Today we went to church then had a couple of meetings in the temple in the afternoon. All in all it's been a great week, lots of new things to think about and learn and one more week closer to coming home for our little vacation to see everyone.

This week the thought we want to leave you with is from President Monson: " Don't limit yourself and don't let others convince you that you are limited in what you can do. Believe in yourself and then live as to reach your possibilities..." 

We love and miss you all and pray for you always.

We are pretty sure these are beams that will be used in the floor of the second story, they are Styrofoam, probably for insulation and soundproofing. They will pour concrete over them.

It will have at least 2 stories, possibly 3. This pile of rubble is the pile they have deconstructed.