Yesterday was spent drafting an email to send the stake presidents to see if they have their music high councilmen and music chairmen ready to be trained. Pres. Andersen says to be patient, patient, patient - and to spend our time studying, exercising, and doing temple work. Which was nice to hear since that is what we have been doing. We need to have a native Spanish speaker go through it and see that it makes sense in Spanish then we can get it sent out.
We needed to find a notary to get a paper signed. That was an adventure! Finally found a woman in the area office who knew where the church sent their legal papers to be notarized. She sent us a google map of where it was - bless her heart! Scott went this morning to get that done and actually made it back in less than an hour. Must have been a good map. Anyway, she wants some cookies for her efforts so we had to buy a cookie sheet that fit in our little oven. Looking at the recipes, I realize I don't have anything it takes to bake with because we have not had a working oven until last week. With no water we try to dirty as few dishes and pans as we can.
Spent another night at the temple. Scott was the only man in the session so it seemed very strange to him. It was a peaceful night!
Today began with an opportunity to spent the morning at a hospital. Scott had a scan done so I sat in the hallway. Saw lots of people come and go and I came to a startling conclusion - women do not wear keds here. Even the cleaning women did not wear any kind of casual tie up she. After observing hundreds of feet I realize that the foot doctors here must do a great business! All of the women wear colorful shoes (reminds me of Chris Carrigan) - either high spiky heels or fancy sandals. Surely their feet must suffer with those heels. They make a lot of noise on tile floors. The whole experience makes me realize that it would be a trying experience being a patient in a hospital where everyone speaks a different language.
We got home and went shopping before out Spanish class. Elder Snow feel asleep and the teacher kept calling on him to see how long it would take him to wake up. Not that it's a boring class or anything - we are all just old students! He finally did wake up but wasn't aware everyone had been laughing at him for five minutes. Elder Snow is the technology expert here so he needs rest...
Following our temple session tonight we visited with the temple president who asked us to come in to his office after the session. Scott had left his missionary name tag at the temple last night. Pres. Bair did not know that Scott had picked it up before the session so he was going to give him a bad time because he thought the name tag was in his desk. So he begins this lecture about how Scott was not a serious missionary because he didn't even have his name tag - so he opens his desk to pull out the name tag and it wasn't there. He was so disappointed because he was going to make a big deal out of it. We did visit with him for quite a while and he gave us some advice that is good for everyone. He said "Don't ever go to the temple without questions". You will always learn something if you go prepared to learn.
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