Just read a post from Jan that says Dallin will be home in a week. Wow! We are so proud of him.
Even more so now I know a little bit more about what missionaries do. Jamie told me that Bailey Ferris is coming here on a mission in June. How exciting! If you love warm weather this is the place to be. The new CCM president here just arrived, the Freestones, and Sister Freestone's sister is Sister Beecher who we went to lunch with a month ago. She is serving in Santiago but they come here to spend a couple of days at the temple every so often so she will get to see her sister. There are four new couples here. One from California is a neighbor to Scott's cousin, Clint Rees.
The temple is finally open again and as we got ready to go I couldn't find my temple shoes. ( The ones that don't fall off my feet as I'm walking) We looked and looked and decided I must have left them at the temple - sure enough, I had. They asked me if I would be an escort for this Haitian woman who was going through for the first time. That was great but she spoke French and had on headphones so she could understand what was going on but my communication with her was zilch! I would have loved to hear her story. One thing that I think is very strange here is that married couples often live apart - far apart. Like one is in the states and one is here, or one is in Haiti and is here, etc. I'm just not sure how that makes for happy marriages - or faithful marriages.
When we got home from the temple the Yturraldes came down and brought ice cream. She reminds me so much of Linda McClellan. We have really enjoyed their friendship here.
We are now without a working phone. Lost the one that worked while on vacation. Someone called us a day ago from our phone but Scott couldn't understand what she said and no one answered when we tried to call back. The office missionaries are trying to get the number cancelled and moved to another phone for us but that takes time here.
Even more so now I know a little bit more about what missionaries do. Jamie told me that Bailey Ferris is coming here on a mission in June. How exciting! If you love warm weather this is the place to be. The new CCM president here just arrived, the Freestones, and Sister Freestone's sister is Sister Beecher who we went to lunch with a month ago. She is serving in Santiago but they come here to spend a couple of days at the temple every so often so she will get to see her sister. There are four new couples here. One from California is a neighbor to Scott's cousin, Clint Rees.
The temple is finally open again and as we got ready to go I couldn't find my temple shoes. ( The ones that don't fall off my feet as I'm walking) We looked and looked and decided I must have left them at the temple - sure enough, I had. They asked me if I would be an escort for this Haitian woman who was going through for the first time. That was great but she spoke French and had on headphones so she could understand what was going on but my communication with her was zilch! I would have loved to hear her story. One thing that I think is very strange here is that married couples often live apart - far apart. Like one is in the states and one is here, or one is in Haiti and is here, etc. I'm just not sure how that makes for happy marriages - or faithful marriages.
When we got home from the temple the Yturraldes came down and brought ice cream. She reminds me so much of Linda McClellan. We have really enjoyed their friendship here.
We are now without a working phone. Lost the one that worked while on vacation. Someone called us a day ago from our phone but Scott couldn't understand what she said and no one answered when we tried to call back. The office missionaries are trying to get the number cancelled and moved to another phone for us but that takes time here.
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