“May Light always surround you;
Hope kindle and rebound you.
May your Hurts turn to Healing;
Your Heart embrace Feeling.
May Wounds become Wisdom;
Every Kindness a Prism.
May Laughter infect you;
Your Passion resurrect you.
May Goodness inspire
your Deepest Desires.
Through all that you Reach For,
May your arms Never Tire.”
― D. Simone
Friday Jan 2 2015 - Well Well Well, the holidays are over. Fridays are our Temple clinic day! In the past few weeks we have seen a total of 10 missionaries or so. Today we saw 10 in the clinic! We had sore throats, colds, GI issues, sore knees and more GI issues!! Every body has GI issues down here! We were very busy and loved that! After the clinic we walked over to the Pococks apartment to see it. They were in one apartment on the 4th floor but they had a huge fire in it a month ago. Not many of their personal belongings got burned, but everything smells! They moved across the hall. Wow it is a nice, big, spacious apartment with big huge windows that overlook the temple grounds. They are so lucky! They even have a laundry room with a washer and dryer of their own. They asked us if we had a washer and dryer! We burst out laughing! First of all, we don't have the space and second we get to use the Hotel's laundry room! There are 3 washers, one of which doesn't spin the water out of the clothes. There are also 3 dryers, one of which doesn't work and the other two turn off whenever they feel like it! And then won't turn back on until they cool down or they feel like it! Another missionary couple that used to live in the hotel offered to buy a washer and dryer, but the hotel wouldn't let them! Crazy people! We have to use the washers and dryers before 8 am or after 6 pm every day. During the day they are used for washing sheets and towels from the hotel!!!
After the apartment tour, we had an appointment to meet the mission President from the South East mission - President and Sister Stutzenegger . They are the happiest people I have met. They have a very hard mission, in a very poor part of town. They worry a lot about their missionaries being safe all of the time! They are so up beat and positive! I love their attitude! They are from Oroville, California. He is a dentist! We had a nice visit and taught them how to use a program on the missionary site called emed! Sis. Stutzenegger needs to put in all the info on the missionaries when they are sick or need a surgery or any medical issue! They invited us to go to the pyramids tomorrow with another mission president - President and Sister Titensor. They are over the North mission. They are from Orem. We have a meeting set up on Monday to get to know them!
We drove home - got lost AGAIN! We got home late and talked the Olsons into going to La Onda for dinner! We took the bus down there and walked home! Tired! But good tired!
Saturday Jan3rd - Another action packed day ahead of us! Today we left at 9:45 this morning with the Andersons to go to the Pyramids - called Teotihuacan Piramids. They are the huge pyramids here just outside of Mexico City! There is the Moon, Sun and the Temple of Quetzacoatl! They were very impressive! Greg climbed up the moon pyramid and 6 of us climbed up the steep, tall Sun pyramid and then 3 of us walked all the way down to the Temple of Quetzacoatl and hiked up that one as well! I have some pics! Those little people must have been in excellent shape going up and down all of the steps that are around!! People think there were close to 200,000 people living in these ruins at its peak! There are little mountains and mounds everywhere where a pyramid is probably hiding underneath. There is a lot or excavation work to do! Pretty amazing site to see really! Who knows how the people ever build such huge structures! I guess they really didn't have much else to do! The women should have taken up knitting or something!!! We spent the whole day there enjoying the 72* weather with a few clouds. Greg got some sun on his face, so he looks better. The Stutzeneggers led us to a wonderful restaurant for a nice lunch/dinner buffet! Food and company was very good! It's entertaining to hear some of the mission presidents stories about some of the crazy things the missionaries are doing! I hope my sons never did any of those things! I will never know! What happened on their missions, stayed on their missions!!!
We had a great shot at getting back home in some orderly manner but NO! We got lost again! I tell you this town is nuts! The poor Andersons are good sports to go anywhere with us! They are so patient and kind to never complain! We had a nice drive through some part of downtown! We have decided to make it a goal to drive on every street in Mexico City in the next 16 months! Pretty sure we will make it at the rate we are going!!!
We finally made it home - got our shopping list and headed back out to the store for some things!
At 9 pm we started our laundry! Hopefully the washers and dryers are working!
We put our clothes in 2 of the washers - someone left clothes in the 3rd one! It takes an hour for the washing part! Back down to put stuff in the dryer and voila! One of the washers has leaked all over the floor! Oh well! Not my problem! We put our clothes in the dryers and surprisingly they turned on tonight!!!
I missed a wedding - Annie Pinnock and a funeral - Mike Henderson today! Weird that I can't be there!
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| Where the dignitaries lived Would you like to move in? |
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| Mural paintings 2,400 YEARS old! |
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| walls made out of basalt |
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| Pyramid of the moon |
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| Climbing pyramid of the moon |
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| I jumped really high so I could be in the picture |
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| Pyramid of the sun - larger of the two Look at all those steep steps! |
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| You saw looking up - now looking down! |
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| Holding the Moon pyramid! |
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| Steep stairs going down! |
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| Temple of Quetzacoatl! |
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| Hard to see but they have uncovered heads of Quetzacoatl Symbol of Jesus Christ! |
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| We went to a little building not very many people know about behind the pyramids where there is still all of this art work that is 2,400 years old! |
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