Wednesday began with a trip to the temple. What a peaceful and calm way to begin the day! Will we ever get used to the 9:00 session beginning at 9:30 of later??? Who knows. We are the witnesses about half of the time we attend or maybe more - keeps us alert.. I just love these people. They have such beautiful, warm smiles.
Later in the day we were traveling to Las Caobas behind this drink wagon:
This was being pulled by a motorcycle and offered different kinds of liquor (at least that is all we could see). The way the driving here is there are probably many customs that imbibe on their way home from work. Haven't seen one of these before but they have almost everything on sale in the streets.
The first class was full of the younger students:
Then I forgot to take one of the older students in the next class but they are a hoot! Three that work hard just to keep up, two that are doing well, and one young girl that is way ahead of them all.
THURSDAY
An early temple session this morning. The exact same people work on Thursday mornings as work on Wednesday mornings so it is fun to see them two days in a row. I love to watch Sister Cuenot - she is like a little mother hen taking care of everyone she sees in need of anything. What a great woman! She and her husband leave in August when we do and will be returning to their home in France.
For two weeks we had planned with the Despains to go out for our anniversary and Elder Despain's birthday. The Glaziers and the Hammons had talked about this place, La Dolceria, that they loved to go to for dinner. The Despains only had lunch time off and so did we so we drove around until we found the restaurant. What a charming place it was!
The Despains are from Smithfield so we are grateful we will get to see them again after we get home.
We were just discussing the likely hood of seeing many of the people here, who have become so special to us, again sometime - maybe in the spirit world. I hope that is a possibility.
Now we are off to our Santo Domingo Stake lesson. Only one tonight so we will only be three hours or so. It is the one way streets that make traveling twice as long as it needs to be! I have gained a great appreciation for driving conditions in Morgan and the other places I drive in Utah. The hope is I can get Scott to start driving like a white man - maybe that isn't quite the way to put it but you know what I mean.....
Later in the day we were traveling to Las Caobas behind this drink wagon:
This was being pulled by a motorcycle and offered different kinds of liquor (at least that is all we could see). The way the driving here is there are probably many customs that imbibe on their way home from work. Haven't seen one of these before but they have almost everything on sale in the streets.
The first class was full of the younger students:
Then I forgot to take one of the older students in the next class but they are a hoot! Three that work hard just to keep up, two that are doing well, and one young girl that is way ahead of them all.
THURSDAY
An early temple session this morning. The exact same people work on Thursday mornings as work on Wednesday mornings so it is fun to see them two days in a row. I love to watch Sister Cuenot - she is like a little mother hen taking care of everyone she sees in need of anything. What a great woman! She and her husband leave in August when we do and will be returning to their home in France.
For two weeks we had planned with the Despains to go out for our anniversary and Elder Despain's birthday. The Glaziers and the Hammons had talked about this place, La Dolceria, that they loved to go to for dinner. The Despains only had lunch time off and so did we so we drove around until we found the restaurant. What a charming place it was!
The Despains are from Smithfield so we are grateful we will get to see them again after we get home.
We were just discussing the likely hood of seeing many of the people here, who have become so special to us, again sometime - maybe in the spirit world. I hope that is a possibility.
Now we are off to our Santo Domingo Stake lesson. Only one tonight so we will only be three hours or so. It is the one way streets that make traveling twice as long as it needs to be! I have gained a great appreciation for driving conditions in Morgan and the other places I drive in Utah. The hope is I can get Scott to start driving like a white man - maybe that isn't quite the way to put it but you know what I mean.....
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