Today began with a walk around the city block to the temple grounds. It was a nice cool, but still sticky, morning here. We found a new way to go and the sidewalk is much better - since the sidewalks we have taken to the temple are broken up and non-existent in many places. This way has tiled walk ways! They tile everywhere here - on walls, on floors, on sidewalks. Guess it's one of the few surfaces that doesn't mildew and can be easily washed. Chlorine will forever more remind me of the Dominican Republic because it is used to clean everything here. We passed a military training center where the guard said they train military men to keep the president from being overthrown. Scott asked if there were over 200 men there being trained and he said there were many,many more than that. The training center takes up half of the block. It is a much quieter street than ours - probably because they have armed guards around!
We finally got our oven fixed. The trouble is it is gas and I have never cooked with gas and didn't realize that I had to move the rack up farther so burned the bottom of this big pan or brownies. That didn't keep Scott from cutting off the bottom and taking some to the guards here and his friend up the street. He brought the neighbor lady in to meet me and thought we should take her breakfast. I realize more each day how important it is to be able to communicate with these people. I am determined to be able to do that, in a small way, before long.
Spanish class was today and when we got there the teacher had left a message for Scott to take over for him because he was caught up doing something else. An opportunity to go to the temple again tonight - there were lots of people there. They have sessions at 9:00 and 10:00 am and 5:00, 6:00, and 7:00 pm. This is where the clorox smell is the strongest- maybe because they wash so many white clothes there! It is amazing to see what the gospel has done for the people here. The church helps here with humanitarian efforts in so many ways. It has been interesting to see the different kits that we have all been involved in putting together at times distributed here to people who need them so badly.
The water is on for it's nightly two hours. There was an article in their paper today that said there just isn't enough water so this may be a more permanent thing here. Oh well - at least the power is on.
We finally got our oven fixed. The trouble is it is gas and I have never cooked with gas and didn't realize that I had to move the rack up farther so burned the bottom of this big pan or brownies. That didn't keep Scott from cutting off the bottom and taking some to the guards here and his friend up the street. He brought the neighbor lady in to meet me and thought we should take her breakfast. I realize more each day how important it is to be able to communicate with these people. I am determined to be able to do that, in a small way, before long.
Spanish class was today and when we got there the teacher had left a message for Scott to take over for him because he was caught up doing something else. An opportunity to go to the temple again tonight - there were lots of people there. They have sessions at 9:00 and 10:00 am and 5:00, 6:00, and 7:00 pm. This is where the clorox smell is the strongest- maybe because they wash so many white clothes there! It is amazing to see what the gospel has done for the people here. The church helps here with humanitarian efforts in so many ways. It has been interesting to see the different kits that we have all been involved in putting together at times distributed here to people who need them so badly.
The water is on for it's nightly two hours. There was an article in their paper today that said there just isn't enough water so this may be a more permanent thing here. Oh well - at least the power is on.
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