You know when you are used to seeing something around how you expect it to appear - well it has been mice that I keep expecting to see. Here everywhere you go there are these hair balls that roll around the floor with all of the fans going. Every time I am startled by one I expect it to be a mouse and it never is. Isn't that amazing? No mice here. At least where we have been. I am sure they are all at home waiting for us. But these hairballs that scoot across the floor are fairly disconcerting!
We passed this guy as we came in to town. Couldn't tell if he was texting or sleeping but definitely not ready to defend the business he was guarding. This is typical of the guards they have everywhere here. Notice the nice warm coat - 80 degrees is fairly chilly for these Dominicans.
I am days late blogging but all has gone well. Our Thursday lesson went well at the Santo Domino Stake and at the Institute.
Friday we went to dinner at the Ruckers. While we were talking we found that the Haws and the Ruckers both know who Brent is. Sister Rucker was saying that her brother works at the temple with Pres. Hatch and as she was telling that story the phone rang and it was her brother. He was so surprised when she told him she was having dinner with Pres. Hatch's sister. I don't know if I measure up when they find out I am his sister. It's a little scary! It is such a small world.
The Crismons, the Eickbushes, the Eturraldes, the Haws, and the Fergusons were all there. Obviously the Ruckers place is much, much bigger than ours! It was fun to get together. Both the Eickbushes and the Fergusons are leaving on Tuesday.
On thing that is very common here is a cap kind of a thing that women were on their hair. Usually they are black but this one is white:
This is my favorite little boy student. He has such tiny hands but he is a smart kid and can play well.
Look at that concentration!
We passed this guy as we came in to town. Couldn't tell if he was texting or sleeping but definitely not ready to defend the business he was guarding. This is typical of the guards they have everywhere here. Notice the nice warm coat - 80 degrees is fairly chilly for these Dominicans.
Friday we went to dinner at the Ruckers. While we were talking we found that the Haws and the Ruckers both know who Brent is. Sister Rucker was saying that her brother works at the temple with Pres. Hatch and as she was telling that story the phone rang and it was her brother. He was so surprised when she told him she was having dinner with Pres. Hatch's sister. I don't know if I measure up when they find out I am his sister. It's a little scary! It is such a small world.
The Crismons, the Eickbushes, the Eturraldes, the Haws, and the Fergusons were all there. Obviously the Ruckers place is much, much bigger than ours! It was fun to get together. Both the Eickbushes and the Fergusons are leaving on Tuesday.
On thing that is very common here is a cap kind of a thing that women were on their hair. Usually they are black but this one is white:
Look at that concentration!
This is our new Hainamosa class. We just kept adding tables because they just kept coming. If there are still this many when we are finished teaching the directing course we will have to split the class at least in two groups
The same is true of the Oriental class we have on Sunday. Don't know where we will be able to find a time to teach them that they can come and we have open.
On Sunday at SanCristobol on of the boys that was there last week came into the chapel area where we teach. There was one keyboard empty so he went and sat down in the chair. He was very quiet and just sat there. Little by little his eyes started to close then he would wake up and just minutes later he would be asleep again. Finally his head just dropped on the desk and he was out!
We picked up the kids Sunday morning - expecting only Williams kids because that who has been coming. But no, there were nine kids ready to climb into the back seat of the car. Three cousins and Alta Gracies kids and Williams kids. The little 5 year old boy came again. What is his mother thinking letting us drive off with her little boy. We could be any kind of bad people! We have never even seen her or the mothers of the other kids that go with us off and on. We are just happy to have the privilege of taking them. We stayed for the sacrament then left so we could drop the kids off and get home to watch the first hour of conference in the Morgan Stake. What a wonderful new stake presidency we have! Such a change from the old one that did a marvelous job. We so appreciate Pres. Porter, Pres. Walker and Pres. Clemens and their focus of making Morgan a Zion stake.
Of course we love the fact that our beloved Bishop will now be in the Stake Presidency. Guess that's why they kept him in as bishop for seven years! It was great to be able to listen to it for an hour before we had to leave to teach. We even got to see Saturday night's session! We so appreciate the stake making that possible for all of us. What an amazing mission president President Porter will be - hope they are ready for him!
We got home after 11 hours of being gone - tired. We were supposed to host Family Home Evening at the Casa on Monday night but they have taken that room we usually use and made it into a missionary area for all the new missionaries. So we were assigned to go in with theYturraldes.
They came down so we could plan and visit. Sure is wonderful to have fun neighbors.
We were all so tired all we could do was yawn so it was a short meeting.
So today I spent the day cooking. The Eickbushes were moving out of their apartment and into the Casa where they would have no food so made soup and took it to them for super. We helped carry stuff down and then went to FHE. After that we went back to the Eickbushes to help them get ready to do. The Yturraldes came too so it didn't take us very long to do what we could to help them do.
Will surely miss them!
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