Memorial Day back home! We miss not being there for the big Rees family party but with some luck we can skype. We are feeling blessed to be here in the Dominican Republic after hearing that the Gaileys are going to the Congo. No wonder when they called to tell us they had our call the man said "You will love this call !" It gets more beautiful here every day. There are these trees that branch out like an umbrella and are just getting leaves and reddish flowers all over them. In some of the streets they branch out over the road and meet in the middle so it's like driving down this beautiful flowered path. They have many varieties of flowering trees and tons of flowering bushes.
I have been thinking how much I appreciate my parents and Scott's parents, how much we love and miss them. Memorial Day as I grew up was a day that relatives from all over would come to visit the graves in Randolph then come down to our house to visit and eat. Mom was an excellent cook and would always have food to feed them.
Went to the Piantini Ward on Sunday. Left feeling blessed to have understood much of what was going on! It was Mother's Day here yesterday so the spirit with all of the speakers was tender and strong. What a priviledge it is to be a mother even though we may fall so far short of being the mothers we want to be.
We had a meeting last night out of town and when we got there they had canceled it because of Mother's Day but had forgotten to call. It was a pretty drive anyway! We stopped a the Yturaldies to pick up a list for Price Mart for the big picnic tonight with all of the senior couples. We have 60 hamburger patties to do before we go. The hambuger here is basically tasteless clumps of ground beef from starving cows - at least we hope it is from starving cows!
Our air conditioner is not working so it could be miserable but there is a fairly cool breeze blowing through our apartment so hoping it gets fixed while the sun is still behind a cloud.
We had a great Family Home Evening. Sis. Yturralde had asked someone from every country represented in our group to sing their national anthem. There were French, Dominican, Puerto Rican, Iranian, Canadian, and American anthems sung without accompaniment and they were very touching. As we listened to the Star Spangled Banner I couldn't help but think how different America was during that time than it is today. We have come so far in many technlogical advances but as a society we have fallen along way from what the people at that time were and hoped we would be.
I have been thinking how much I appreciate my parents and Scott's parents, how much we love and miss them. Memorial Day as I grew up was a day that relatives from all over would come to visit the graves in Randolph then come down to our house to visit and eat. Mom was an excellent cook and would always have food to feed them.
Went to the Piantini Ward on Sunday. Left feeling blessed to have understood much of what was going on! It was Mother's Day here yesterday so the spirit with all of the speakers was tender and strong. What a priviledge it is to be a mother even though we may fall so far short of being the mothers we want to be.
We had a meeting last night out of town and when we got there they had canceled it because of Mother's Day but had forgotten to call. It was a pretty drive anyway! We stopped a the Yturaldies to pick up a list for Price Mart for the big picnic tonight with all of the senior couples. We have 60 hamburger patties to do before we go. The hambuger here is basically tasteless clumps of ground beef from starving cows - at least we hope it is from starving cows!
Our air conditioner is not working so it could be miserable but there is a fairly cool breeze blowing through our apartment so hoping it gets fixed while the sun is still behind a cloud.
We had a great Family Home Evening. Sis. Yturralde had asked someone from every country represented in our group to sing their national anthem. There were French, Dominican, Puerto Rican, Iranian, Canadian, and American anthems sung without accompaniment and they were very touching. As we listened to the Star Spangled Banner I couldn't help but think how different America was during that time than it is today. We have come so far in many technlogical advances but as a society we have fallen along way from what the people at that time were and hoped we would be.
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