Joe and Hannah are going to have their baby today! We are so excited. What a precious gift a new baby is. They bring so much love into a home. So every lesson we have had today has been accompanied by our laptop so we could keep up on what is going on at home.
We had music lessons with the returned missionaries from the CCM. They are such fun kids. Of the three guys one really wants to find someone and get married - he says the other two know the commandment to move on with their lives includes marriage but they just don't care. They tease each other unmercifully. They know one of my favorite hymns is" Peace, Be Still" so they prepared and sang it for us today. It was beautiful! It is hard to think these people will pass through our lives and we will never see them again.
Much of our Spanish lesson was talking to the new couple from Layton, the Schmidts, who are the mission office couple for the West Mission. I give thanks every day that we are not just arriving here. Elder Schmidt could absolutely not believe how people drive here. And here we thought it was getting so much better! He must not like dodge'm cars at Lagoon then.
We left the temple and pulled up to the stop sign right by a guy on a motorcycle. As we sat at the red light we noticed a gun sticking out of his pocket. He quickly covered it with his shirt but made us wonder just what he was up to. No one carries guns here but the police that we have noticed. Guess that isn't true because a guy was shot right on the street ourside our apartment. And yet there are often people killed by guys riding by on motorcycles. At the present time it seems to be the lawyers they have grudges against and drug related stuff.
Thought I'd put on this picture of a grapefruit here. They are about three times as big as they are at home and have a rind that is at least 1/2" thick. You peel off the rind then have to peel off the thick skin covering each piece. Each piece has 10+ seed in the center.
We had music lessons with the returned missionaries from the CCM. They are such fun kids. Of the three guys one really wants to find someone and get married - he says the other two know the commandment to move on with their lives includes marriage but they just don't care. They tease each other unmercifully. They know one of my favorite hymns is" Peace, Be Still" so they prepared and sang it for us today. It was beautiful! It is hard to think these people will pass through our lives and we will never see them again.
Much of our Spanish lesson was talking to the new couple from Layton, the Schmidts, who are the mission office couple for the West Mission. I give thanks every day that we are not just arriving here. Elder Schmidt could absolutely not believe how people drive here. And here we thought it was getting so much better! He must not like dodge'm cars at Lagoon then.
We left the temple and pulled up to the stop sign right by a guy on a motorcycle. As we sat at the red light we noticed a gun sticking out of his pocket. He quickly covered it with his shirt but made us wonder just what he was up to. No one carries guns here but the police that we have noticed. Guess that isn't true because a guy was shot right on the street ourside our apartment. And yet there are often people killed by guys riding by on motorcycles. At the present time it seems to be the lawyers they have grudges against and drug related stuff.
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