What an amazing blessing it is to have a prophet and apostles who receive direction from our Father in Heaven to guide us here on earth. We know what they have to tell us is pertinent to our eternal welfare. It was so relaxing for us to be able to spend Saturday and Sunday listening to conference instead of chasing all over the area to teach keyboard lessons. And to think we could just set on the bed in our grubbies and watch it on our computer without having to get dressed up and go out to another meeting! I loved Pres. Monson's story about the fire - reminded me of Jake and the fires we had on the ranch. Each conference I am aware of so many ways I need to improve. The church is really a hospital for sinners, because we all are in one way or another. But to have the help of the gospel to remind us of who we really are and who we have the potential to become and how we can be better is a wonderful thing.
On Saturday and Sunday here they were having air shows on the Malacon. That's about a mile from us down next to the ocean. So we saw much of the show on Saturday and Sunday out of our bedroom window. They had two shows a day but on Sunday we noticed they didn't have the second show and a helicopter was the only thing flying around. The Yturraldes came down and ate with us and the whole time people were walking up the street around the corner from us coming up from the air show. There must have been two to three hundred people. They weren't their usual noisy selves.
Today we read in the paper that one of the stunt planes that would go up and spin around and around half the way back down then swoop across the top of the ocean and go back up did not make it back up. It just went down into the water. Both the pilot and the copilot were killed. That's what the helicopter was doing. From here it looked like they just skimmed the surface of the ocean when they came back down but would pull back up. The people must have all stayed to see the rescue effort because the accident happened at 4:14 and it was 6:00 to 7:30 that they were all walking back up the street. How sad! I had tried to get some good pictures but none turned out but this one.
Also this morning in the paper there was an article about Canada telling their citizens not to travel in the Dominican Republic because of the crime here. Their main concern was the public transportation where many people have been robbed at gunpoint at night and in the early morning hours. Glad we have our own transportation!
Tonight for Family Home Evening we had a welcome to the Grays, the Wegeners, the Crismons, and the Walkers and a farewell for the Munos'. The Grays are working in the Temple, the Wegeners who are working with the PEF, the Crimsons who took the Hammons place in the humanitarian area.
The Munos were in the temple presidency and will be going back to Puerto Rico where they live.
The Walkers were so refreshing - we laughed and laughed as Sister Walker told a little about them but then she encouraged him to tell about the miracle that had just happened in their lives. They had flown home to go to court about a law suit filed against him but knew their malpractice insurance would not cover what the exorbitant amount the other party wanted. They arrived home to get a call saying that a law had just been passed that would make it so the other party would have to accept what the malpractice insurance would pay. What a blessing for them!
It is such a small world. the Walkers worked with my brother in the Mesa Temple.
Sister Hyde came to our mission from Kaysville and knows my brother there
so I am including this picture of us celebrating her birthday!
Get to start back on our busy schedule tomorrow so better get to bed.....
On Saturday and Sunday here they were having air shows on the Malacon. That's about a mile from us down next to the ocean. So we saw much of the show on Saturday and Sunday out of our bedroom window. They had two shows a day but on Sunday we noticed they didn't have the second show and a helicopter was the only thing flying around. The Yturraldes came down and ate with us and the whole time people were walking up the street around the corner from us coming up from the air show. There must have been two to three hundred people. They weren't their usual noisy selves.
Today we read in the paper that one of the stunt planes that would go up and spin around and around half the way back down then swoop across the top of the ocean and go back up did not make it back up. It just went down into the water. Both the pilot and the copilot were killed. That's what the helicopter was doing. From here it looked like they just skimmed the surface of the ocean when they came back down but would pull back up. The people must have all stayed to see the rescue effort because the accident happened at 4:14 and it was 6:00 to 7:30 that they were all walking back up the street. How sad! I had tried to get some good pictures but none turned out but this one.
Also this morning in the paper there was an article about Canada telling their citizens not to travel in the Dominican Republic because of the crime here. Their main concern was the public transportation where many people have been robbed at gunpoint at night and in the early morning hours. Glad we have our own transportation!
Tonight for Family Home Evening we had a welcome to the Grays, the Wegeners, the Crismons, and the Walkers and a farewell for the Munos'. The Grays are working in the Temple, the Wegeners who are working with the PEF, the Crimsons who took the Hammons place in the humanitarian area.
The Munos were in the temple presidency and will be going back to Puerto Rico where they live.
The Walkers were so refreshing - we laughed and laughed as Sister Walker told a little about them but then she encouraged him to tell about the miracle that had just happened in their lives. They had flown home to go to court about a law suit filed against him but knew their malpractice insurance would not cover what the exorbitant amount the other party wanted. They arrived home to get a call saying that a law had just been passed that would make it so the other party would have to accept what the malpractice insurance would pay. What a blessing for them!
Sister Hyde came to our mission from Kaysville and knows my brother there
Get to start back on our busy schedule tomorrow so better get to bed.....
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