I had to get up early and go to the temple to see sick missionaries - Peg stayed home as I was going to go to the temple afterwards but my tooth is still bothering me and I came back home after seeing about 6 missionaries. We took the Griffins and the Hackings shopping (had to squeeze 4 in the back seat) and found a Home Depot, ate lunch at Chili's in the mall, when to Costco and wore ourselves out. There is a small shop in the Pueblito (poor neighborhood just up the hill from our hotel) that sells DVD's for $10 pesos - I am sure they are authentic. The Griffin's bought Jurassic World so we watched that with them.
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| Looking out of the parking garage at Home Depot This street goes straight up the hill but cars can only drive half way up! Look at all the cement in that little Pueblito! |
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| So the latest - spray painting poinsettias for fall!! |
Sunday Oct 25
We met the Pratt's at church - they came on Thursday but we were in Cancun. Sacrament meeting was on Temple service and Missionary work. It took me about 2 hours to do my report to Elder Gregory Schwitzer on our week. We heard from Guadalajara that Manzanillo and Puerto Vallarta were not hit as hard by the hurricane as they thought but lots of small towns in the mountains were subject to landslides and roads were blocked by fallen trees. All missionaries are safe. We ate dinner with the Griffins and the Pratts and got to know them a little better. He is an attorney and will be a missionary in the legal office. She has a sister in Steph's ward. I went to stake choir practice which is a chore. Most Mexicans need a very large bucket to carry a tune and basically try to follow anyone that has any musical ability at all. We are trying to learn some difficult songs (Lillies of the field, etc) so I hope we are blessed with instant musical ability. This coming week we are home - things look like they will be winding down with our traveling - there are only about 5 missions left to visit and most of those mission presidents have been slow to schedule with us - We have been instructed that we can't go without an invitation from the mission president. There are about 4 missions we need to redo since we did those early on and only trained the leadership council. I do get about 20 - 40 phone calls a day and most require follow up action but basically that gives me 5 hours a day to figure out what to do when we are not traveling. I have some projects - translating health guides into Spanish and distributing them to the 120 some doctors that help us with the missionaries. We are trying to get flu shots to all missions right now. I am trying to update lists I have made for each mission listing their hospitals and doctors to help the mission presidents' wives and try to study Spanish daily along with scripture study, but my ADD mind still gets a little frustrated when I am not on the go.
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