It's been a great Sunday. We took the Ottosons to Church this morning to the Pientini
Ward. The chapel was 1/2 full of Americans by starting time and the Dominicans slowly started coming some time after the meeting started - and they start late anyway. The fun part of going to that ward, besides alot of people speak English, is we know so many of the people. It is so much easier for me to understand the Americans who speak in Spanish than the Dominicans who speak Spanish.
The Mahons came today. They are new here and will be working with the CES program. He was a professional polo player but got hurt while surfing in Costa Rica. He broke his back and they thought he would be paralyzed for the rest of his life. She is a striking woman who had to have an apartment with an excercise room - and she obviously has used it. She plays the flute and violin and says she will teach piano lessons at the Institute here for us. So that is great!
Scott went to a Priesthood Training Meeting with Elder Snow so I was alone for three hours. Sometimes that is a good thing. I'm sure it's good for him to have some "man talk time".
I baked some brownies for when he got back and didn't realize that the broiler pan that I had put in to keep the bottom from burning kept the brownie pan tilted down. So when the buzzer went off here is a third of the pan burned and the other two thirds not cooked because most of the mixture was down at the bottom end of the pan. So much for baking on Sunday!
At the meeting Scott said there was a man that played by ear who wants to learn to read music so he can teach. Scott gave him half of the money he would need to buy a keyboard and told him to earn the rest. I guess he was amazing.. One more source to help here with the music!
Elder Eickbush came by tonight with some banana bread. He and Elder Snow make banana bread then deliver it to many of the senior missionaries. You just have to smile at life here with the senior missionaries - they are just great. Elder Eickbush was actually a minister for another church when he decided to investigate the church. Many of these senior missionaries are converts to the church.
We have a new guard tonight while the other one is sick. Scott took him down some soup and fruit. He has a wife and two kids and makes $200 a month, We don't know how they do it. After a days work many don't have enough money to take the bus back home. They should have a minimum wage law here!
Got to talk to Melia and Kelsey today. I really miss our family at home. Just have to not dwell on that! Today coming out of church at the bottom of the stairs this woman looked up and she reminded me so much of Sheri Wright that it took my breath away. I miss her - but know she is as busy as she can be doing good. That's just who she is. I hope to be like her someday..
Election update: Today I looked out the window and it looked like this huge flag was hanging in the sky. When I went to another window I could see the airplane pulling the flag for PAPA- who looks like a communist dictator. The Keith McCord guy looks much better to me. There are always noisy cars going past with loud speakers and sirens for one or the other of the two.
Elder Snow sent us a picture someone had sent him off the internet of the big brown bear that got hit up by Devil's Slide. That is a bit unnerving! Too close to my precious family!!
Ward. The chapel was 1/2 full of Americans by starting time and the Dominicans slowly started coming some time after the meeting started - and they start late anyway. The fun part of going to that ward, besides alot of people speak English, is we know so many of the people. It is so much easier for me to understand the Americans who speak in Spanish than the Dominicans who speak Spanish.
The Mahons came today. They are new here and will be working with the CES program. He was a professional polo player but got hurt while surfing in Costa Rica. He broke his back and they thought he would be paralyzed for the rest of his life. She is a striking woman who had to have an apartment with an excercise room - and she obviously has used it. She plays the flute and violin and says she will teach piano lessons at the Institute here for us. So that is great!
Scott went to a Priesthood Training Meeting with Elder Snow so I was alone for three hours. Sometimes that is a good thing. I'm sure it's good for him to have some "man talk time".
I baked some brownies for when he got back and didn't realize that the broiler pan that I had put in to keep the bottom from burning kept the brownie pan tilted down. So when the buzzer went off here is a third of the pan burned and the other two thirds not cooked because most of the mixture was down at the bottom end of the pan. So much for baking on Sunday!
At the meeting Scott said there was a man that played by ear who wants to learn to read music so he can teach. Scott gave him half of the money he would need to buy a keyboard and told him to earn the rest. I guess he was amazing.. One more source to help here with the music!
Elder Eickbush came by tonight with some banana bread. He and Elder Snow make banana bread then deliver it to many of the senior missionaries. You just have to smile at life here with the senior missionaries - they are just great. Elder Eickbush was actually a minister for another church when he decided to investigate the church. Many of these senior missionaries are converts to the church.
We have a new guard tonight while the other one is sick. Scott took him down some soup and fruit. He has a wife and two kids and makes $200 a month, We don't know how they do it. After a days work many don't have enough money to take the bus back home. They should have a minimum wage law here!
Got to talk to Melia and Kelsey today. I really miss our family at home. Just have to not dwell on that! Today coming out of church at the bottom of the stairs this woman looked up and she reminded me so much of Sheri Wright that it took my breath away. I miss her - but know she is as busy as she can be doing good. That's just who she is. I hope to be like her someday..
Election update: Today I looked out the window and it looked like this huge flag was hanging in the sky. When I went to another window I could see the airplane pulling the flag for PAPA- who looks like a communist dictator. The Keith McCord guy looks much better to me. There are always noisy cars going past with loud speakers and sirens for one or the other of the two.
Elder Snow sent us a picture someone had sent him off the internet of the big brown bear that got hit up by Devil's Slide. That is a bit unnerving! Too close to my precious family!!
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