Mexican Moments with Greg and Peg: Yep, another new week!!

Monday, Jun 29th

THOUGHT: The man of wisdom is never of two minds;

the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.
Confucius

Today is another one of those mellow days that drives Greg crazy! This is the week that the new mission presidents come - mostly tomorrow so the phone is quiet! We drove over to visit the Stutzeneggers cause Sister Stutz. is having bad back pains. We took a tens unit over and had a nice visit with them. They are so nice and friendly! Good friends! We got Sister Stutz resting and the 3 of us walked down to a taco shop for some tacos al pastor! I'm not sick yet! 😜 We also walked down the street to a nice plaza and saw the first government building built by Spain and a church in about 1550! The inside of the church is full of huge paintings and sculptures with Jesus laying in a glass coffin! Ugh! It is weird how they put mannequins in glass coffins to represent saints and such! People were actually kneeling in front of them and praying. I guess we need more missionaries. We had a nice walk and returned to say goodbye to the Stutzeneggers. I hope she is feeling lots better real soon. She was feeling miserable. Also there were about 6 Elders in her house healing from one thing or another that she needed to take care of and get them back out in the field!
It took us an hour to drive back home. We were the leaders for FHE tonight! Greg gave the Seniors the schpeel he gives to all the missionaries when we do zone conferences. They really enjoyed it so that turned out good!!

This is the roof of Stutzeneggers mission home
All the roofs are flat and you can walk around on them!

Another view!

President Stutzenegger took us to this taco shop
Tres Coyotes for lunch! We all had tacos al pastor

Cute shops across the street

Greg took this pic and we all know what a good photogrifist
he is so sorry it is blurry!
This is the chunk of meat that they cut some off of
to serve tacos al pastor!
Who knows how long this chunk has been sitting here
There is a grill underneath that supposedly is cooking this meat!
What's a little diarrhea anyway?????

The huge wooden doors going into the big church
Door were made about mid 1500's

Cool carved edge around gate at side of church

We were standing in the plaza and looked down to see
this huge hole! I bet there are children down there!
We were discussing how much you could sue for
stepping in this hole in the U.S.

Big old church with the mannequins of
Jesus and some saints in it! Weird!

Can only see the right side of this rock wall/gate
that was built in the 1500's.

Nothing like a huge load of metal hanging off this truck as
we drive down the freeway!!!

Tuesday, June 30th

THOUGHT: "THE SECRET OF CONTENTMENT IS KNOWING HOW TO ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE, AND TO BE ABLE TO LOSE ALL DESIRE FOR THINGS BEYOND YOUR REACH."

Groundhog day again. A lot of the new mission presidents are on their own starting this morning. It will be fun to get to know them. We ran some errands up to the Pueblito and enjoyed a great thunder storm. I do love the thunder storms here. They move in, make a lot of noise, dump a lot of rain and move out in about 15 min. I wish they would last longer. My sore back and stiff neck are finally feeling better today so that is a good thing. Not much else is going on! We are getting ready for our temple trip we are taking with 8 other couples to Veracruz this Thursday. We planned on going to Oaxaca but the area presidency won't let us go. There must be some strikes or something going on there. They block the roads for hours and won't let you pass. Anyway, it is a beautiful drive to Veracruz so that will be fun. This is our last temple trip because the Mexico City Temple will open in September. We are glad we will be here for the open house and program and the rededication. We are looking forward to that.
We got Emily Thompsons wedding invitation today. She gets married on Thursday. We moved into our home the first part of September and Emily was born the next month! Now getting married!! Where did that time go??? Hope all is well with you!

Wednesday, July 1st

Another fun day in Paradise! Due to the fact that Greg has been bored the past couple of days, he started thinking up things to do! I love it when he does this!! NOT! We were asked to deliver some shoes to an Elder in the south mission. We took off from home and couldn't believe the traffic today. Some days are better than others, but today isn't one of them!!! We were able to meet the new mission president and his wife President and Sister Mecham. They are from Mt Pleasant Utah and sister Mecham doesn't like speaking spanish! After the shoe drop off we drove around those parts of town looking for some people Greg baptized. We found the house but no family members lived there. The lady told Greg they had died. Greg said no - I just saw them on Facebook with their family! Whenever these Mexican people don't want to deal with something they just say they died! We spent another hour or so looking for another family but could never find the right street. Sad Greg! He loves finding the people he taught. It took us over an hour to get home so the whole trip was al least 4 hours long! I'm tired! We had to check on Sister Griffin. She still isn't getting her strength back. I hope she is OK! We got all packed up for our trip to Veracruz tomorrow. That will be a fun diversion! - with fun people!
We had a farewell dinner for the Matas who have gotten a new church calling. They have been the church history people for Mexico. They are from Puebla and were getting excited to be done with their mission in November. They got a call 2 days ago to be in the Temple presidency of the Ciudad Juarez Temple They will have this calling for 16 months so their mission just got doubled in time!