HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! WE WISH YOU ALL LOTS OF LOVE IN YOUR LIFE!
THOUGHT: "BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! HAVE FAITH IN YOUR ABILITIES! WITHOUT A HUMBLE BUT REASONABLE CONFIDENCE IN YOUR OWN POWERS YOU CANNOT BE SUCCESSFUL OR HAPPY!"
Happy birthday Mitch! (on Sunday) We are so glad you are a part of our family!
Greg - Saturday we got up early - saw a couple of sick missionaries in the West mission office then set off for a meeting at the temple grounds. I have 6 doctors who assist me in the Mexico city area and we planned a 3 day seminar for the service missionary doctors that help me. They all come to Mexico City, stay in the old MTC dorms, eat in the cafeteria on site and sit through long meetings. They often bring their families so we need to plan something to keep the small kids busy. After that we had to race to the new MTC at the old Benemerito school. I served in the hills around the school for only 3 weeks but had a couple of baptisms including a student at the school who was a cross country runner. It was the poorest area I worked in - cardboard houses with corrugated tin roofs, dirt streets with sewage running down the gutters. It was so poor we had to live quite a ways away from our area because there was no safe housing around it. We manned the clinic at the MTC which is usually closed so it was quite slow. I did see a young man who while playing soccer had his heart start racing up to 200 beats a minute. I laid him down with his feet up and massaged his carotid artery and he went right back to 83 beats a minute. We ate in the cafeteria and talked to a bunch of sisters heading to Dallas Texas. We got home just in time for dinner then the Andersons invited us over for movie night - Watched an old classic - "Return to Me" - probably from the 90's for Valentine's day. Sunday we had trouble finding parking at the church and even though we were there 5 minutes early had to sit way in the back. The youth speaker was a 13 year old girl whose father is with the FBI down here. She has only been here a year and she gave a talk in very, very good spanish. We went to the Gospel Essentials class with some of the recent converts of our ward. They are really progressing. The father of one family that was baptized 4 weeks ago received the Aaronic Priesthood and passed the sacrament last week and blessed the sacrament this week. He is going to be a leader in the Church. We had general stake priesthood meeting tonight. The stake center is about 35 minutes away from us and there is very little parking so we left an hour early to get parking. The entire meeting was on Self-sufficiency and was very good. Tomorrow I get to go and get my senior citizen card. when you are over 60 years old this card gets you on the subway for free and a large discount at most of the tourist sites around town.
PS I don't get a card!
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| Here are the pics from the MTC! Greg worked up in them thar hills on his mission! The houses are not made of cardboard anymore! Thank heavens! |
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| There are ALOT of people that live up there! It's nice in this little oasis of the MTC but out there it is dangerous! |
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| A pic the Andersons took of us at the butterflies! |
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| Valentine cookies I made and had the 6 other sisters here come over while our husbands were at the Priesthood meeting to help decorate them! No one took any of them so they are going to the mission home in the morning for instant consumption!!! Do you like my new tablecloth? Te Amo! |
Greg got them on Wednesday! He needs to take more time in picking flowers!
I'm not sure he will ever slow down and smell the roses!!!
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