Pretty Roses for a day!

Wednesday, Feb. 11th

THOUGHT:  "THE SECRET OF BEING HAPPY IS ACCEPTING WHERE YOU ARE IN LIFE AND MAKING THE MOST OUT OF EVERY DAY!"

Today has been a relatively mellow day!  We had our monthly meeting with the Area Authorities at 9 this morning.  We took our car in to get a check up so we got a loaner car.  I spent an hour in the West mission office practicing my espanol with Sister Tobler!  Wow, I am going to be a good spanish speaker any time soon now!  We then walked down to the Telmex center to pay our bill with the Toblers!  It was a beautiful sunny warm day.  One thing I like about Mexico is the abundance of flowers they have everywhere!  They grow like crazy here and are so beautiful!  There are flower shops on most corners and some places in between!  The people here also do the  very best arrangements!  They are amazing - especially this week for Valentines!  By the way - the flowers dad got me for my 3 month anniversary (2 doz roses) died today!  He thought he would get by on Valentines day with these but no such luck!  I bet I don't get any new ones on Valentines either!  I am going to take some pics of the arrangements around here!  They are magnificent!  Any who - after paying our internet bill we walked over to our favorite taco shop! (mostly favorite cause we haven't gotten sick from eating there yet!)  We got the usual and enjoyed the Toblers company!  We walked part way home and caught the bus the rest of the way up the hill!
After a nice 10 min rest I started working on the blog and it started getting darker and darker!  It started to rain.  This is the first real rainstorm we have been in since we got here!  The rainy season doesn't start until June they say!  Then it pours every afternoon and night for 3 months!  That should be exciting to drive in!  Greg, Sister Anderson and I left at 4:30 to go to Costco!  We have walked there before so it is not that far away!  It took us about 1 1/2 hours to get there because the traffic was so dang bad!  My nerves are shot with the crazy people down here!  We all did our shopping and got home a little faster than it took us to go there!  The rain had stopped by then and the air was nice and clean for one second!
We had some dinner, dad worked on missionary stuff and I worked on my little project for awhile - then to bed!
Nos Vemos!
More pics!

Good times meeting Elder Anjewierden in Xalapa!
This is 2 missionaries from Lincoln Lane in a week!
Elder Anjewierden and Sister Castillo from last friday!

This is what a zone leader conference looks like!
There are no tables on the other side of the room because
no one had a key to the table closet so they turn chairs
around and use them as a table!

The Greers  They are from Gilbert Az and very awesome people!