Our first meeting with the big choir event committee - the small one - met today at the area office to decide what we wanted to do. Sister Anderson has been involved with music since the day she was born (or soon after) and Sister Johnson has had all kinds of experience organizing big musical events.
Sometimes out here you wonder just what you have been doing with your life. Our job is just getting the information out to the stakes and wards and seeing if they think it is something they would be interested in doing. Then our main job would be teaching the leaders what their duties consist of.
It is handy to have the Area President's wife on the committee. When we had a question she just went and got him.
Got home later than we thought so I studied while Scott went to his Spanish class. I wanted to get a treat made to take out to the kids. So since We didn't get to see the kids this week and won't next week either because we are going to Stephanie's ward to listen to her play we decided to take some treats and have FHE with them. Scott talked to Olgalidia and she said they would be home - even William. Being in their area at night is always a bit scary but there is a man that always sets on the corner of the little pathway down to their place so we asked him if he would watch our car for while we were gone. He was very nice about doing so. Everyone looks at you like you are an alien from outer space! But such an improvement in the steps going down - they actually made some!! It actually makes you feel that you can get down there without bodily harm. Every time we go down that alley I am amazed at how people there live. They have so little but yet seem happy. When we made it up the stairway to William's house there were about ten extra people there just sitting around in the area that is being built next to them. Next to them is maybe a foot from their house. So far they just have the floor done (so to speak) with old tin, boards, cement blocks, etc scattered all over. You never know what to expect there. A wonderful surprise was Olgalidia's mother was there with them. She must have come back from the country with them. It was so much fun to meet her. Scott thinks she may weigh 85 lbs soaking wet! All of the adults and kids there were related to her.
somehow. Gregory wasn't there at first so we could explain the legos to him but he did make it back. Carlos and his mom (the unseen woman in the back seat on the way to the mall) came up. Olgalidia was making some kind of soup which I didn't even dare look at. I wonder if she feeds all of those relatives. Hopefully not since William doesn't have a job and neither does she. She is going to beauty school though so it will be good when she gets done. This picture of Gregory with the legos didn't turn out very well - darn.
We wondered what shape our car would be in but it was still in one piece and the man on the corner said he had taken good care of it. William came out to make sure we got safely in the car and on the road. I always appreciate that as the people in that area are like ants at night - everywhere.
On the way we saw this Panderia salesman in the street. We have never stopped at one of their bakeries but their bread sure looks good. 
So now we are safely home - protected one more day. I want our grandchildren to know that their prayers do not go unanswered!
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