GENERATED BY LOVE." MLK
Monday, Feb 15th HAPPY BIRTHDAY MITCH!!!
We wish our son in law a very happy birthday today! There is a big storm in North Carolina right now so we hope he gets to do something fun. Hopefully they won't get stuck in their apartment all day. Spencer is there visiting and Beka's school got cancelled today because of the storm.
I had a great day serving Sister Whitehead. She is my mission presidents wife. She is going home to the states on Thursday to get a total hip replacement next Monday. She wanted to make cookies for her missionaries before she left so the President can have those at the zone conferences he will have while she is gone. I think we make 150 sugar cookies and 275 chocolate chip/oatmeal cookies.
It took us about 4 hours. We were both tired but we felt successful in getting a big job done. Her kitchen was wonderful to be in with big windows and lots of counter space. I felt like I was on vacation. We got President and Greg and went to lunch at PF Changs to celebrate our job well done!
We got home around 5 pm and I had to lay down for a minute to rest my back. FHE started at 6:30. We had a lesson by the Hackings on the city - Parangaricutirimicuaro - and how it came to pass. There was a couple from the town out in their corn field when the earth started to shake and spew out smoke and rocks. Within one week there was a 1,000 ft tall volcano in the middle of their corn field. It continued to spew out gases, rocks and lava for 9 years and then went dormant. Weird. It is the newest volcano in the Western Hemisphere. This happened in 1943. Great story and pics. Mexico is still a wild place to be!
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| At PF Changs with the Whiteheads! |
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| This is some of the cookies we made today! |
Tuesday, Feb 16th
Today was a very nice day. We feel so lucky today because we got to go to a devotional this morning with Elder Oaks and Elder Clayton. It was just the church employees and some of the missionary couples. It was up close and personal. Elder Clayton spoke about the family proclamation and Elder Oaks talked about the area plan of conversion and baptism. It was awesome to be only 5 feet away from them and feel their spirit. Elder Oaks appears young and energetic at 82. We even got to shake his hand after the meeting. This is one of the perks of being a missionary! Good times!! We had to leave right after greeting them because we were 1/2 hour late getting up to the Pachuca mission for a zone conference. We drove up there as quickly as possible and made it in perfect time. President Egbert was planning on us being late so it all worked out. Greg did his schpeel and we had a nice visit with lots of the missionaries. We found out when we got there that Sister Egbert had fallen in the Sams Club parking lot two weeks ago and broke her leg. She had a nice pretty blue cast on and was scooting around on an office chair she had bought. It was lots easier to do that than walk around with the crutches. She is a nurse so this is a good experience for her. Poor girl. After the long zone conference we drove back to the city of Pachuca and went to a Dennys like place called Madero's for lunch. We had soup and a sandwich. We got to their wonderful mission home around 5 pm. They live on a golf course and their house is made of windows and wonderful views. I am very sensitive about windows and sunshine and such since my window isn't all that great in our place. At least we have a window!!! We spent the rest of the evening at the house. Pres. & Sister Egbert had to go to the mission office to do some stuff with some missionaries so we hung out at the mission home! It is weird how so many of the mission homes are freezing even when the weather is nice and mild outside. They must be so insulated. We had two heaters on just to get the upstairs warmed up a bit!
We will have a great sleep in the nice big bed though!!! Sweet dreams!!
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| Elder Oaks at our devotional! |
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| Someone started this huge stinky fire next to the church where we were doing the zone conference! |
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| Zone conference for Pachuca mission |
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| Zone conference |
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| President & Sister Egberts mission home |
Wednesday, Feb 17th
We were up early and going to the zone conference that was here in town. We got there, set everything up and when all the missionaries got there we had zone pictures taken. Sister Egbert had all the sisters dress in pastel tops and black skirts. I didn't get the memo so I had a blue skirt on so I probably stick out like a sore thumb. Dang! We did the zone conference and Greg & I actually left early because I was freezing in the church as well. We drove over to the mall here in Pachuca and I bought me two pastel shirts that I can wear tomorrow to get pics taken in. We went back to the mission home to wait for the Egberts to get done. They arrived about 3:30. We jumped in the car and drove to Italiannis for lunch/dinner. Poor Sister Egbert had to walk in with her crutches. I was commenting on how we should have gone some place easier for her to get to - to eat! She laughed and said she did very well getting around anywhere she wanted to go! We had a nice lunch/dinner and a nice visit! We finished and left the restaurant and got in the car and drove home. We all went in the house and Sister Egbert headed for the bathroom. Pretty soon she called Pres. Egbert to come in the bathroom to help her. She was lying on the floor and she didn't feel very well. Pres. got her up and was walking her over to the stairs to go up to their room. She wanted to lie down because she was short of breath. I took one look at her and knew something was terribly wrong. We only got her half way up to her room. She had to lie down on the stairs because she couldn't breathe. She had lost all the color in her face and was confused. We finally got her up to her room where we got her changed into some comfy clothes and the guys gave her a blessing. We whisked her off to the ER. Earlier in the day she had told me how her broken leg had hurt her so much for two weeks until yesterday. It finally quit hurting and felt so much better. We quickly figured out that she had had a blood clot in her broken leg that had now moved to her lungs! We got her to the ER where they found a huge clot in her lungs. SCAREY! If we hadn't been there she would have gone upstairs to bed and who knows what would have happened. Tonight she is in Intensive Care with oxygen and IV's and a heart monitor. Poor President Egbert can't even be with her. The rules of Intensive Care is that one person can visit between noon and one, and 5-6 pm. That's all! This day has turned out terrible but we are so happy we got her to the hospital in time for care. The hospital she is in is very small and quite old. We are praying she does OK tonight!
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| Had to make a stop at the mall for a pastel shirt for mission pics! |
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| Us sitting at the hospital in Pachuca waiting to hear how Sister Egbert is doing with her blood clot in her lung!! We had to practically drag her to the hospital!! |
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| Here she is - headed to Intensive Care with a huge blood clot in her lung!! |
Thursday, Feb 18th
We didn't get to hear how Sister Egbert was until about noon today. I guess she had a bad night where her blood pressure dropped really low and her heart rate stayed really high. I guess she passed a very large clot! She is lucky to be alive. President Egbert didn't know what else to do so we got up early and left by 7:15 to drive an hour to a little town to do the final zone conference with us. We met at the church, did the picture thing and Greg did his schpeel. We said goodbye to President and left to drive home since we couldn't get in to see Sister Egbert there wasn't any reason to hang around there. We drove to a nearby town to look for a hospital for Pres. Titensor since we were now in his mission. We found one little clinic that would help see the missionaries if they were sick but it was not a hospital. After getting very lost a few times we finally found this really nice hospital where we feel good about sending the missionaries to if they were very sick. Success!!! We did have two altercations on our way to Tule where we were searching for the hospital. First off we were driving in a small town and we ended up going down a one way street the wrong way - WHICH PEOPLE DO ALL THE TIME IN THIS COUNTRY!! We got to the street where we could turn - which we did and off we went down the road. Guess who showed up behind me ! YIKES a motorcycle cop was pulling me over. This is a first for me! I am an angel driver😇 I pulled over and Greg had to talk to the officer. He turned out to be very nice and only told us to pay better attention. WHEW! No harm, no foul! The cops are never nice down here. They always want a bribe when they pull you over. Then we were driving along a few minutes later and we got stuck behind a big bus. He was in the right lane and the left lane had cleared out so I pulled over into the left lane and started driving. There were people on the side of the road yelling something, but I had no idea what they were saying. I just kept going right across the railroad tracks. As soon as I got onto the tracks I looked to my left and saw a train coming. It wasn't very far away and it scared me! I gassed it and made it safe and sound across the tracks! The train honked at me and off we went! It has been quite the time the past few days. We made it home finally and are glad to be here! We had a quiet evening almost! We bought a treadmill from the Toblers and I am up to 3 1/3 miles on it so that is what I spent my time doing tonight. Greg did his usual computer and phone stuff! Good night!!
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| Following President Egbert to the zone conference this morning! We weren't sure that bus would make the turn up there! |
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| Driving down the streets in Tapatepec |
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| The church in this town! |
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| The LDS Church in this town! Very nice! |
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| A lady going for a walk in her bathrobe! |
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| Following this truck with the wheelchair in the back 3 guys sitting in the cab of the truck! Someone is very nice to take the handicapped guy around! |
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| They are having a HAY DAY! Hay harvesting time!! |
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| Roadside restaurant!! |
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| This is what lost looks like!! |
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| This cute dog sleeping in the street until I woke him up to take his pic! |
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| This is also what lost looks like! |
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| And this!! |
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| This cute lady had a pretty lacey skirt under her skirt!! |
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| A home sitting in the dust and dirt!! |
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| Ferocious dog barking on his roof! Actually he is mostly crying to get down to play with the kids that are walking down the street!! |
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| And I think this is the 4th lost pic. We are suppose to be on a nice paved road, not this dirt road! |
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| We are suppose to be out there somewhere but we can't find the right road to get there! |
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| We finally found the right road!!! |
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| YEAH! We found this terrific hospital we have been looking for - for one hour!!! |
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| This town is famous for the huge cement plant |
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| This truck is loaded with who knows what! I love a good lean!! |
Friday, Feb 19th
This mission keeps ticking along. We got up, got ready and headed over to the temple clinic. Greg went to the clinic and I did a session at the temple. The session was small and all went very well. We went to the yarn store over there by the temple to pick up some yarn for Sister Pratt and then we drove home. The traffic was bad and it took us over an hour to get home. My nerves were shot and I need to spend some down time when my nerves are shot! I am almost finished with my 8th afghan so I worked on it for awhile. I even took a teeny, tiny nap! The Andersons came down and we had plans to go to Cheesecake Factory for our Valentines dinner. We never got to go last weekend because Greg was gone and the Andersons were home sick. We had a wonderful dinner at Cheesecake. It wasn't even crowded for a Friday night! We came back home and watched a little old mystery show on Netflix with the Andersons. We are starting to figure out what is left that we want to do before we go home! There isn't much for us but we are trying to help the Andersons and the Sandbergs do some things they want to do! It has been so nice for us to have a car and be able to go and do when we want! We are very lucky!
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