THOUGHT: "MUCH THAT IS GOOD, MUCH THAT IS ESSENTIAL.....
CAN BE ACHIEVED IN LESS THAN IDEAL CIRCUMSTANCES."
Todd Christofferson
Well, well - guess who made it back to Mexico without too many rope burns on my body from my kids dragging me to the airport!!! It really didn't hit me that I would be sad all over again until I saw the smog over the extremely large city!!! To be honest, I am not excited to dive back into the traffic, but the work must go on and we must keep the missionaries healthy!!!
I landed about 1:45 pm and then stood in an 1 1/2 hour customs line! Bienvenido Mexico!!!
See Mexico didn't even want me to come back! It hardly let me in!!
Happy Mothers day to all of the Mothers I know! You are all very special and a great example to me! I wish I could wish my own Mother a happy day, but she is probably already having one!!
I got back home to beautiful roses for our 6 month anniversary! Nice job Greg!
I spent the evening unpacking and catching up on emails. We also met and visited with the Griffins who are the new couple since Friday. They will be over the media and digital stuff for the church here in Mexico!! They are from Thatcher and know Kim and Jan Hansen. Small world!!
Good to be back on the mission!!!
Here are some pics from Greg and Spencer's week activities!
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| Quetzal head at the Pyramids |
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| At the Basilica of Guadalupe in the garden |
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| Basilica of Guadalupe - the church is sinking into the ground |
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| Going up the stairs at the main cathedral in the Zocolo - they give tours of the bell towers. |
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| Bell towers of the cathedral in the Zocolo |
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| On the roof of the main cathedral in the Zocolo in Mexico City |
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| Wooden stairs that are 300 years old in the bell towers |
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| Los gigantes of Tula - probably Olmec ruins (read into this Jadeites) |
Monday, May 11th HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHANDLER!
Happy Birthday to my big 6 year old! You are adorable! I hope you had a nice day!
Monday, Monday! It has been a mild day for me, but I am pretty sure that the yellow cell phone has grown to his ear! He has had all kinds of problems with missionaries today. It has been a wild day and Greg sent home 5 missionaries just today!! We walked down to the Telmex store to pay our stupid internet bill! Every time we pay our bill our internet service gets worse for about 2 weeks! Lately it has been bad all the time! We stopped in at LaOnda for a chicken taco and then walked back to our place! It was good exercise for the day! Way to go to us for starting out the week like this!! We don't get enough exercise!
The FHE lesson tonight was given by Pres. De Hoyos. He is the area president. The lesson was on loving and appreciating our mothers. I learned you just can't do it with a mother!!! I knew that already!
I am putting up some pics from my time at home! I didn't take nearly enough pics!
Sara's wedding!
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| One wedding and 4 graduates! Proud parents!! Spencer - Utah State Rachel - Weber State Mitch and Beka - U of U. |
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| The bridesmaid getting ready for the wedding! |
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| There Perfect!!! |
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| Hadley and Jason |
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| All the guys in the Stevens family now!! |
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| Lovely couple! Best wishes to you both FOREVER!!! |
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| YAY! They did it!! |
Tuesday, May 12th
Today we had to get up and get going! We had a zone conference in the north mission at noon. Greg thought it would take us 1 hour and 20 min to get there! We made it in 35 min. Wahoo! We were able to help the Titensors set up and get ready for the conference. The conference went well - Greg did a good job as usual. Sister Titensor had it catered so we had greasy tacos for lunch with salad. The salad always tastes so good! We don't get or make salad very often because you have to soak the veggies and clean them and go through all this trouble! It's much more fun to stay fat and happy!!
The Titensores ( Mission Presdient) of the North mission are very delightful. We like hanging out with them. We have another date on June 6th to go back to the pyramids for another tour. !
After the conference we headed out to go over to the MTC. My neighbor Nathaniel Porter is coming to the MTC on June 24th. I took some pics that I will post here so he can see what it looks like! It is the garden of Eden inside with a wild and crazy world outside the MTC walls! We went to the MTC to meet the Beechers. This couple is so dang cute! They are both psychologists. HI SISTER BEECHER! I KNOW YOU ARE READING THIS! Kathy Voorhees gave our blog address to her and she has read every word! The Beechers are the new mental health counselors for the MTC and the rest of Mexico until we find another doctor. We got the Beechers all oriented to missionary medical and had a nice visit with them and the Gills. He is the doctor and she is the nurse for the MTC. Another funny story - guess who is coming to be the doctor for the MTC???
The Harstons. We bought the Harstons home 21 years ago this September and we still live there! Once again - small world!! As we were leaving it started to rain! Oh my! I am going to have to make some new rules about driving around this city in this rain. People drive even more crazy and you can't see the holes and dips! UGH!! I took a pic of us trying to get to our hotel. It is a 2 lane highway and I think 6 cars were jammed in! We barely made it home in one piece!
Also Greg doesn't think I am busy enough so he is having me read through the emed log and help him pick out the problems he needs to send to Elder Schwitzer. I picked translate to English and some of the sayings are coming out so funny! I am pretty sure I am going nuts! Here are some of them!!
"Elder ? saw Dr. Ortiz our mission doctor for some balls that were in his neck causing him some concern. " "The traumatologist said I would not recommend removing the plates and screws. I said the inflammation and pain are walking from the Elder" Elder ? said his teammates always very sore but he tells me he has nothing." "Elder has severe acne. cleared before eleven o'clock last summer with antibiotic treatment but I does not remember the antibiotic" "He went to see the doctor again because they follow the inconvenience and problems in the urinary tract."
So there you go!!
Here are some pics of Spencer and Beka's graduation!
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| YAY! Throw that hat high! |
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| Congratulations Spencer! We are so proud of all you have accomplished! |
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| Home Sweet Home! |
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| Look at the good job the gardeners are doing! Those pretty flowers that you can blow all over the neighborhood are so nice!! |
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| Graduation dinner at Famous Dave's! |
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| Beka with her close friend Megan in the Huntsman Center |
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| On the jumbotron! Thanks Jason for taking these! |
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| Way to go to you too Mitch! |
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| Congratulations Beka! We are so proud of you and all you have accomplished! Love you! |
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| OOOHHHHH! |
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| A statue of Jesus We saw this on the way to the MTC in the middle of the hubbub! |
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| I love this house with the plants on the ledge and the laundry on the roof! |
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| Looking down the street and at all the houses on the hills in the background! |
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| More houses on the hill! |
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| A little market in the street! |
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| I can't hardly drive down the street! |
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| A family getting some food! |
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| Pics of the MTC Gate to go in to the Garden of Eden |
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| Through the gate! Greg used to tract in those hills with the B on it! |
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| Nice wide streets |
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| Basketball courts The cafeteria is behind the courts! |
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| Housing for missionaries |
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| More housing! |
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| This is what it looks like by our house in a traffic jam! Cars going every which way! |
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| Right here there are only 6 cars across on a 2 lane road! Everyone tries to be first!!! Actually there is no firsts! There are always more cars ahead of you and behind you!! |
It was so fun to see you!!! Thanks for the MTC pictures Nathaniel can't wait to get there.
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