6/3/2012

  A beautiful Sunday!  We went to the Piantini ward where we know many of the members - because they are senior missionaries.  Sister Lilly teaches the class in English.  The lesson on Alma and what he went through to repent of his many sins is such a perfect example of the atonement - after realizing what he had done and had repented, he was filled with such joy and peace. I am grateful to know for myself that I can be forgiven and know that peace also!  Relief Society was taught in Spanish but there was a sister behind me and Jill Kimball that filled in what we couldn't understand. First of all Jill is the one that reminds me of Sheri Wright so I felt an instant connection to her.   She has a little downs syndrome daughter, probably about 3 or 4 years old.  Well the lesson was on special challenges with handicapped children and she cried during the whole thing.  Well I couldn't let her cry alone...
Then the teacher told of losing a little 3 day old baby boy and how the Relief Society sisters had actually carried her through that experience.  It was such a touching lesson on how we can help each other.  I hope I can do better!
   We decided to make a dessert and go visiting this afternoon - we are not sure who though.  We were going to have people come here but we have no air conditioning and that isn't a popular thing in this hot country. Hopefully our landlord gets back from the US today so we can talk to him tomorrow.

  I want to put on this blog some of the flowering trees and shrubs here that are so beautiful.  We'll see how that goes.!

This seemed to be a good picture of the typical driving here. None of these vehicles are turning legally but they do it anyway!  That's why you stop at red lights and green lights because you never know what the oncoming car is going to do!