BIG DAY! WE GOT OUR MEXICAN DRIVERS LICENSES!

Monday, Feb 9th

THOUGHT:  "WHEN YOU GET INTO A TIGHT PLACE AND EVERYTHING GOES AGAINST YOU, TILL IT SEEMS YOU COULD NOT HANG ON A MINUTE LONGER,  NEVER GIVE UP THEN, FOR THAT IS JUST THE PLACE AND TIME THE TIDE WILL TURN!
                                                                                                               Harriett Beecher Stowe

Happy Monday! Hope everybody had a great weekend!  We had such a big morning due to the fact that we got our Mexican drivers licenses!  Now I can legally be a big jerk like everyone else on the road!!  YAY!  The traffic seems to be getting worse!  It is like spring around here, and everyone must be out and about, pulling in front of me, stopping in front of me, turning in front of me, walking in front of me, and honking behind me!  Oh my gosh people!!!!!!   Calm down!
You can tell the traffic is getting to me!  Any who - we left in the early afternoon to drive to Xalapa.
It was a 4 hour drive and quite nice actually.  We drove through the mountains and they are always pretty.  Oh my heck!  We got to the Xalapa Mission home and met the Greers.  They are from Gilbert Arizona and have been on their mission 7 months.  Their home is INCREDIBLE!   It is a new home and looks like a very fancy  resort somewhere!  It has 6 bedrooms that are all decorated to the hilt!  There is even tile in a beautiful pattern in the garage!  There is a red corion counter top in the kitchen that I would love to have!  There is a little patio off the dining room.  Sister Greer pushed a button and a garage door like thing closed over the patio and closed it off!  Awesome!  We had a nice dinner that Sister Greer had made and a good visit!  We cut up fruit for the zone leader conference in the morning and went to bed tired!

Here is the crew that rode horses up to see the butterflies!
From L-R Andersons, Toblers, us, Rices, Sandbergs, Hobbs!

We ate (at least tried to eat) lunch at a little place by the butterflies
My attempt at a selfie!

A mariachi band serenaded us!

The star - a cute 8 year old boy that could sing and play
his guitar!

This is my lunch!  YUM!
There was beans, rice and yellow gooey chicken!
I choked down the beans, rice and tortilla
but couldn't do the chicken!
I have started praying not to get sick!

Greg's lunch!  Look at his happy face!
He had beans, cactus and beef of some sort!

Elder Anderson got a big piece of nopales (cactus)

Here is the kitchen where our food was cooked!
Look at that fire between the ladies!
Where are the clorox wipes???

This is the gang that watched our 3 cars while we were
seeing the butterflies!  Someone in a truck had shown up
just before we got back with a load of toys for all the kids around.
We couldn't find out what the occasion was.  That's why
they are holding toys!
I wonder how well they watched our cars!!!!