Mexican Moments with Greg and Peg: Back from a week of travels and HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEKA!

Saturday - Sunday, Mar 21st - 22nd!
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEKA DEAR!!!
Sara's birthday is on the 21st and Beka's is on the 22nd!
Great weekend!

THOUGHT: "YESTERDAY IS HISTORY...
TOMORROW IS MYSTERY...
TODAY IS A GIFT!" Eleanor Roosevelt

I (Greg) will write in blue so you will know which of us is sane and which is insane. After being stressed to the max that we would be stuck in the airport in Chihuahua, we made our flight (last ones to board) but that was 10 minutes before the plane was to leave. We had an uneventful flight and got back to Cuidad de Mexico at quarter to 12. The Smith's picked us up and we told them we were going to take them to lunch. We went back to the temple grounds and picked up another couple - the Anthonys - they are stuck in Ground Hog Day - office missionaries for the Cuidad de Mexico East mission and the offices are one floor down from their apartment - they spend their whole lives between floors 1 and 2 in the living quarters on temple square. We thought they might like to see the outside world. We went over past the Basilica of Guadalupe (main holy site for Virgin Guadalupe - not sure why they changed Mary's name and made her dark skinned) and found the mall where we ate at PF Changs a couple of weeks ago. There was an Italian restaurant called Italianni's - Peg and I shared a salad and a dish of Lasagne - we are really getting old here. But it cost half as much and we were both very comfortable when we pushed our chairs back to leave. I had to run back to the clinic on temple square while Peg stayed and visited, visited a couple of shops in the mall (This one really could be anywhere in the US and you wouldn't know it) and got more yarn for another project. We got home about 5, had dinner and had movie night with the Anderson's and Sandberg's.

Sunday was another nice day - about 78 degrees and cloudy and hazy. Sister Anderson spoke in sacrament meeting and did a wonderful job. Once again I was very touched by Elder Salinas - the area 70 who lives in our ward - our priesthood lesson was on personal revelation. Elder Salinas works for the church in welfare and self-sufficiency and has an office in the area office building across from our hotel. He is a very prayerful man and a general authority in every sense of the word. He told of a day when just before 9 am in his office (they start here early) before a 9 am meeting that was very important, he got sudden hunger pains. This was very unusual for him and he went down from the 11th floor (Church has top 3 floors in this large office building) to the main floor where often there is a man with a snack cart outside. He wasn't there so he turned around to go back in when he saw a young lady (19 or 20) who walked out of the elevator and went and sat down by the exit of the building with a very sad face. The thought hit him strongly that she needed a job. He struggled with whether he should say something to her since his meeting was about to begin. Finally he decided to run back up to his office and get one of his cards. He came down and introduced himself and told the young gal that as he had walked past her he had these very strong feelings that she needed a job and that he could help her. She told him she had just been at a job interview on one of the floors of the office building and did not get the job and that she was in very bad financial stress. She had tears in her eyes when he told her to come up to his office at one in the afternoon. She came, had a job in a week and now is a member of the church. To me it was very interesting that the Lord didn't tell him some one might need a job and go downstairs - he may not have listened to that prompting. He was prompted with a basic need - hunger. We had the Andersons and the Rices over for Peg's famous meatballs over rice for dinner and played some games (Of course every 10 minutes or so my phone went off - how else can I bug my wife. We only had one case of appendicitis, a sister missionary with bad asthma who had overused her inhaler and had her heart racing and an elder with diarrhea calling from Cuidad Obregon to ask how you say stool sample in Spanish. - that is my life here in Mexico.
(I will tell you how to say stool sample in Spanish!!!!) Hang up!!!

Pics from around town - Chihuahua!!