Friday, Saturday, Sunday!

THOUGHT: "When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself."

Dec 5th Friday - Today is Temple clinic day.  It took us about 40 min to get to the Temple this morning.  We saw some cute, (Sick) missionaries.  The things they come up with to come to the clinic for is creative!  Greg says they like to travel and they have permission to come to the clinic!  Greg did take care of a cute little Elder that had been bitten by a dog the night before!  He was so worried, he called Greg a couple of times.  It ruined his pants and took a chunk out of his leg!  Dumb dog!  We also talked to our friends from the MTC!  They work at the Visitors Center!

We took a third route on the way home!  It was suppose to be shorter, but not so sure if it really was!

When I get home from all that driving in all that traffic, I have to just sit and stare at the wall for a long time to decompress!
Luckily, one of the couples that is here invited us to go to dinner to Olive Garden!  So, back in the car we go (I don't trust Greg to drive - EVER) We only got lost once and it took us about 25 min to get back on track!  We made it to the mall where the restaurant is!  Wow!  It is a huge, beautiful mall with every store you can think of!  Beinvenidos!  Mexico!  Our dinner at Olive Garden was just like if we went to the one in Sugarhouse!  The other couple - The Toblers - were nice to show us around.  They have been here in Mexico for all of 4 months.  Sis. Tobler is about on the same level as me - speaking spanish!  We love ourselves a little home town English touch!
We didn't get lost on the way home!  That's a first!!!
How is the scripture memorization coming!  2 Nephi 2:25???

Here we are at Olive Garden with the Toblers

This is looking out my windshield. I guess you really can't
tell, but you pull up to the hotel and honk!  The guard inside
looks out the window and opens the garage door.
In this pic you are looking down a steep driveway to the
black hole at the bottom where we park!
I've learned how to pull in without pulling the mirrors in!

Ice skating rink in the mall!

This is a huge Christmas tree in the middle of the mall!

Dec 6th Saturday -  Greg, of course, gets up early EVERY morning! We headed out to the tianguis in the morning with the Olsons and Sis. Ellis!  It is a big flea market, they put up on Saturdays and Wednesdays!  You can buy anything Mexican!    WAHOO!  A lot of the vendors bring produce to sell!  The Olsons loaded up their bags with fresh fruits and veggies.  Sis Ellis got so much stuff, things were falling out of her backpack.  We had to help her carry her grapefruits back to the car!  I almost forgot that before the tinges we went to Walmart and bought ourselves a Christmas tree (fake) and some lights and ornaments!   After we were done at the flea market, we got a yummy fruit bar at a little place on our way back to our car.  I definitely will be going back there often!
We spent a relaxing afternoon in our place, studying spanish and such!  At 5:30 we left with the Olsons to walk to our church up the hill for the ward Christmas party.  They did the road to Bethlehem and it was very sweet!  The primary girls signed a Christmas song and they looked like little angels!  We had bolillos with chicken and rice, little oranges and cookies!  Good Times!  It is still really hard to compute that it is Christmas!  We had to dress up - Greg wore Sis. Olson red robe with a dish towel on his head and I took the cover off our bed and used it as a wrap!  Beautiful!
 Sadly enough, we fit right in!  They even had a manger scene and I didn't climb in to take pics family!  I wanted to, just to be funny, but I didn't think they would think it was funny! (inside family joke)   It was windy tonight and a little cooler than usual!  Glad to see a little change in the weather!

buying a bag to carry all our treasures at the tianguis!

I took a pic of the street fair!
Right ahead they are selling all kinds of meat
that have been sitting out all morning!
Yum the chicken feet look delish!

The primary girls look like angels! 

The live Nativity with shepherds!

Nativity with ward members sitting down in front!

Dec 7th Sunday - which are turning out to be quite long days after all!  Greg actually slept in.  We go to church at 11 am to catch English speaking Relief Society and Priesthood!  Then we had choir practice from 12:15-12:45.  Our Spanish ward sacrament meeting starts at 1 pm. and goes to 4 pm -or until the teacher decides she is done talking - which happened to be 4:20!  No big deal!  It happens all the time I am told!  The Mexicans have their own time clock they follow and none of us understand it!  We got home and warmed up some of the leftovers from the Christmas party the night before.  We invited the Olsons and Andersons over for dinner.  We had a very nice visit.  All the couples here are exceptional to say the least!  The Andersons have lived all over the world - South America, Afghanistan, Israel, Central America.  I can't begin to list all the places they have been.  He worked for the state dept in agriculture.  He helped other countries to develop their own food supplies! His wife is very, very brave to go all over with him!  I'm glad I didn't have to do that with Greg!

The Olsons have a projector (that we watched the BYU game on) so we got to watch the Christmas devotional on a big screen! (wall).  I love the Christmas devotionals!

May your Holiday Season be Merry and Bright and may Christ be the center of it all!