Bad Drivers!

Wednesday, Jan 21st -

THOUGHT:  The mind is everything. What you think you become.  –Buddha

Today we walked to the office to do a little work!  I got a new job!  I am scanning a book about the Mexico Temple for the Matas - the church history missionaries!   They are such a cute couple who don't speak English.  They are always trying to make me speak Spanish so we clash!!  I heard she wants to speak english so I teach her things like - see you later, alligator!  It is funny to hear her pronounce it!  I scanned over 100 pages and got tired of that!  It was time to go to my spanish class anyway!  I am the one that got the class put together and going but have sluffed for the past 2 weeks! I was going to sluff this week, so they moved it to Wednesday so I could come!  The first week I had to go with Greg to meet a mission president and wife!  Last week was when we went with the Olsons to the Basillica of Guadeloupe and downtown!  This Thursday I have to take the Ellis's to the airport to go home to Logan!😂  I am the only one that drives around here so we got nominated!
The spanish class was very fun!  Sis. Sandberg is the teacher.  She is bilingual and has taught English and Spanish for a long time!  Sis. Tobler, Sis Rice, Bro. & Sis. Mata and I were in the class today.  We worked on numbers.  The people down here say their numbers very fast.  We switch with the Matas - we speak spanish to them and they speak english to us!  We laugh a lot at each other!
Great fun!!!   I will never speak very good Spanish!
In the afternoon we had to drive quite a long way to a hospital to check on an Elder that had appendicitis!  We got there and agreed that he needed surgery.  He has only been in the field for 5 weeks.  He is from Preston Idaho.  Poor guy!  Welcome to Mexico! That trip took us all afternoon and we only got lost once!  Good record!  Actually we had another Elder later that night with appendicitis, but his wasn't as bad and didn't need surgery! People are starting to hear about Elder McBride.  He was in the Merida mission.  He was playing soccer with ward members and investigators.  He went to get the ball, collapsed and died!  He had a massive heart attack.  Poor family and poor missionaries!  We are praying for them!
I invited the Sandbergs over for dinner.  We had Hawaiian pork and rice bowls!  Good Night!

DRIVING TIP;  Use your eyes in the back of your head at all times to not kill the motorcycles that sneak up and zoom past you!  They scare me to death!  I am just waiting to see one of them spread all over the road!



Thursday, Jan 22nd -

THOUGHT:   "LIFE IS A LONG LESSON IN HUMILITY!"

 WOW!  It's our 2 month in Mexico anniversary!  Greg went all out and bought flowers today again for me!  Actually it was a little peer pressure from the Sandbergs, but I will take them any way I can get them!  They are so pretty!  It cost about $7 for two dozen roses here!
Today was another busy day!  I love busy days!  We had to pack up the Ellis's and drive them to the airport.  They have served an 18 month mission and are going home today!  They saw time went slow while they were here, but now that they are going home, they can't believe where the time went!  That's the way it goes!! We took the Olsons on Tuesday. They emailed the Ellis's this morning and told them that they got selected to go through all of security!  For 1 1/2 hours the Olsons stood there and watched and waited while the security people went through everything in all of their carry ons!  They went through their scriptures  page by page - bible too!  Dumb stuff!  They almost missed their plane!  Glad we got them there early!  So we got the Ellis's there with 4 hours to go before they took off!!  I hope everything went OK with them and they made it home safe and sound!  It is lonely around here without those two couples!  We got back home, picked up stuff around our place, ate lunch and then we were off again with the Sandbergs.  They wanted to go to the MTC here in Mexico City.  We needed to go to the distribution center that is up there so we took off on a little afternoon adventure!  The MTC here is very peaceful and nice!  Almost too quiet!  I said I would never be able to live there for 18 months!  Way too calm for me!  I need my noisy grandkids around to keep my blood pressure up so I can function!!!  We had a nice visit with Dr. Gill and the Sandbergs had fun as well!  They were so grateful we took them around they offered to take us to dinner!  We went to Sanborns by where we live and had enchilada swissas   I spent the rest of the evening going through stuff that has been laying around the place and I took the ornaments off the Christmas tree that is still lit all the time!  Christmas really goes until Feb. 2nd around here so I am still celebrating!!!
We had to go to the Whiteheads mission home tonight to see a sister missionary who fell in the shower this morning and knocked herself out for a few minutes, then had convulsions after that!  She spent the day in the hospital getting a CT scan.  She will be OK, but will have to take it easy for a few days.  The two sisters get to stay at the West Mission home with the Whiteheads.  The mission homes down here are very lovely and huge!  Maybe I will bump my head!!!   Greg is off to bed.  He doesn't feel very good today.  He has a bad cough and is achey all over.  Great = the doctor is sick!  Now what!  
DRIVING TIP;  Watch out when cars pull in front of you from the left lane and keep on going to the right lane - only to crash into the car in that lane!!!  That was very fun to watch today!