Mexican Moments with Greg and Peg: Lonely week

We had a wonderful weekend at home, made it through Sara's wedding and Spencer's graduation. The area presidency told me I had to come back with a companion, but that my wife could stay the week and attend Rebeka's graduation this weekend so I have had Spencer for a companion. His Spanish is coming back and it has been a great week. It started off Sunday evening with a phone call about a missionary with a blood clot in his lungs in a city 3 hours away - he was really sick and nearly died. I told the mission president that I would leave in the morning and drive to Morelia to see him and help them decide what to do with him. Monday morning Spencer and I left fairly early to avoid traffic. It is a really beautiful drive through pine covered mountains and beautiful lush valleys for most of the drive. It was all on toll roads so it cost me almost $1000 pesos ($65 US D) for tolls. The elder was in intensive care but doing much better off of Oxygen. The doctor seemed very conscientious and well trained. The elder's biggest concern was the cute female nurse insisted on giving him a bed bath the night before (elder instructed to tell her next time he would do his private parts.) He will be fine. Spencer took up a conversation with a man in the waiting room whose wife was in intensive care. He softened him up so that when the companion came back up he was ready to read the Book of Mormon - Way to go Spence!. The man even followed us to the parking lot to get Spencer's email to correspond with him. We had lunch at VIP's (think Denny's) and came back home. I got tired as always driving so Spence drove about half the way. We arrived home just in time for family home evening and called it a night. Tuesday we went to the pyramids and stopped at the Basilica of Guadalupe on the way home. Spencer got in some major sight seeing and really enjoyed himself. The pyramids are always awe-inspiring. We stopped by the temple grounds to buy new scriptures for two elders who had theirs robbed and went home. at the Anderson's then Spencer went on splits with the missionaries. We were invited to eatWednesday I had my monthly meeting with the area presidency and had my proposal to change to volunteer mission missionaries instead of trying to call them as service missionaries presented to them for approval. We have about 80 service missionaries, most of whom are now ready for release and we don't have another 80 to take their places. My proposal was to ask those after release if they consent to continue to see the missionaries as mission volunteers, without giving them a calling that has a release date. That was approved. In the afternoon we went to the Zocolo (downtown) and the Latin-American tower. Spencer had his first experience in the Merced - the extremely large market place in downtown Mexico. Aisle after Aisle after aisle of "stuff." He was looking for shoes - found some that quite frankly looked too Mexican. He didn't buy them because the lady would dicker and later we couldn't find her store (thank goodness - I am not sure they would have been worn in the US.) Thursday we went to a zone conference in Tula (90 minutes or so from our hotel). We arrived a little early so we went to the archeology site with the Giants of Tula statues - possibly Olmec (read Jadeite) ruins. We had a great conference, were fed and returned home. I took Spencer to eat at the Olive Garden in the big mall near us. Friday I had to work in the temple clinic then we went to another zone conference in the north mission. Afterwards we tried to see if we could go to the castle in Chapultepec park but there was no parking, we arrived late and Spencer had to go to the bathroom in the worst way. Found a gas station and got him taken care of and then must went home for dinner. The Anderson's invited us over for movie night. Sorry I have no pictures - without Peg I am lost.