We Survived Week Two!

This has been a really busy week for us.  On our P-Day, Monday, all the temple missionaries reported in the parking lot of the temple to learn how to put out fires.  Here are some photos.

 Here we are just standing around watching the demonstration from the temple maintenance people.   Pictured (l to r) are Elder Murri, Hermana Guzman, Elder Wilson, Hermana Cordon, Hermana Olson, President Burke, Elder Olsen, Hermana Thompson.

 Here is Hermana Cabellero putting out a fire. 

Hermana Guzman and Hermana Olson together putting out a fire.

On Tuesday we started a really big week in the temple.  We had a large group of people from Polochic.  They are indigenous Mayans and most of them speak no Spanish.  They speak one of the 20 some odd indigenous languages in Guatemala, Kekchi.  We have a few workers in the temple who speak some Kekchi, so it isn't easy to work with these people, but they are beautiful.  They wear the typica that is different in each village.  We had 23 own endowments done on Tuesday and several couples sealed with 20 some odd children sealed to parents.  The youth center was packed, and the children couldn't understand the workers, so we heard there was a lot of crying going on.  The sealings were going on until late in the evening, but it was a wonderful day.  The people stayed overnight and came back to do baptisms and other ordinances for family names they brought with them.  The rest of the week was equally busy and rewarding.  We were exhausted by Saturday night!

One night this week Dorine got up in the night and looked out the kitchen window, through the patio, and up at an angle and discovered that we have a view of Moroni from the window!

It's not easy to see in the daytime, but if you look closely, you can see him about in the middle of the center bottom square of the grate.  He's partly behind the grate, so he's hard to see, but below is a picture from the temple parking lot.

 We walked to the little nursery up the street and bought another begonia for our patio.  It makes it so pretty!

Tonight, Sunday, we went in two vans to the area offices where we attended our first "break the fast" with all the senior missionaries in the area.  It was a pot luck and was very good.  We were asked to introduce ourselves along with the Wilsons.

And here is Elder Eberhard enjoying the good food --yum, chocolate cake!