I blogged early yesterday do didn't get in a couple of pictures. Elder Despain knows Bishop McClellan so I hope they see this. He was asleep on his wife's shoulder for half of the class but as soon as I went to click the picture he woke up.
This happens often! Then we have Reid Cornish who is Pres. Cornish's son. He is as pure and Christlike as anyone I have ever known. Each week in Elder Hammon's Spanish class he puts a quote in Spanish on the board for us all to learn. Then at the end of the lesson he has figured out games in Spanish that we all participate in.
Knowing him has been such a privilege. He considers all of we senior missionaries his family.
Family Home Evening was Sister Alcontara giving the lesson. She is in the ward we are supposed to be in and works in the temple so we have seen her around. She and her husband were some of the very first converts in this country in 1978. Days after her baptism she was called to be the Relief Society President then went on to be the stake RS pres in two different stakes for a total of 18 years. She teaches at a University here. Her husband died about a year ago after he was given some kind of experimental drug for something. She handed a picture of him around - he looks like Sean Connery.
All in all it was amazing listening to her - even if I didn't get all of her Spanish. We did have an interpreter so that was nice. I don't think of there being pioneers in the church that are still living!
Tonight was temple night. There was a group of French speaking people at the temple. It is a great service the church does of supplying a place for people to stay who come from other islands in the area. They pay $6 a night for a room that they put their whole family in. They hire a guagua (a small bus) to come if they live in the Dominican Republic otherwise they have to fly here. But they are so excited to be able to come to the temple together. It is a joy to be with them and see the love and concern they have for each other. We take so many things for granted at home.
Family Home Evening was Sister Alcontara giving the lesson. She is in the ward we are supposed to be in and works in the temple so we have seen her around. She and her husband were some of the very first converts in this country in 1978. Days after her baptism she was called to be the Relief Society President then went on to be the stake RS pres in two different stakes for a total of 18 years. She teaches at a University here. Her husband died about a year ago after he was given some kind of experimental drug for something. She handed a picture of him around - he looks like Sean Connery.
All in all it was amazing listening to her - even if I didn't get all of her Spanish. We did have an interpreter so that was nice. I don't think of there being pioneers in the church that are still living!
Tonight was temple night. There was a group of French speaking people at the temple. It is a great service the church does of supplying a place for people to stay who come from other islands in the area. They pay $6 a night for a room that they put their whole family in. They hire a guagua (a small bus) to come if they live in the Dominican Republic otherwise they have to fly here. But they are so excited to be able to come to the temple together. It is a joy to be with them and see the love and concern they have for each other. We take so many things for granted at home.
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