Week Five

Time is flying by.  We are only a week away from our first maintenance closure.  We're excited about our travel plans during the closure. 

On Monday we hosted family home evening.  We did a presentation of our Book of Mormon Tour from last October.  We had a Power Point presentation already on the computer, so it didn't take much work to get it ready.  We served brownies, a fruit plate, and chips and salsa for refreshments.  It was fun for us.  Here are shots of the missionaries who attended.  We have two home evenings each week, one in English and one in Spanish.  We usually have some Spanish speaking missionaries in the English group and the Murries, an English speaking couple, always attend the Spanish group.

 

 Top picture, left to right, Hna and Hno Barlow, Hno and Hna Thompson, Hna Tanner, Hna and Hno Olsen.
Bottom picture, left to right:  Hna Paniaqua, Hna and Preisdent Galvez, Hna Guzman, and Hno Wilson.  Hna Wilson was sick that night and didn't attend.  (Hno and Hna are the abbreviations for Hermano (brother) and Hermana (sister).

President Galvez is the first counselor in the temple presidency, but he and and Hermana Galvez have been called as the next president and matron of the Quetzaltenango Temple so are leaving us after the maintenance break.  Hermana Guzman is the dear sister Gary calls the "Temple Angel."  She comes into the office as she has time and helps with recording as well as translating for us when patrons need help that we can't understand.  She grew up in Chile but moved to Australia 30 years ago with her husband, so she speaks English and Spanish fluently and also has served in the Sydney Temple Office, so she is an invaluable help to us.  She is now a widow and is lovely person inside and out.

Today the young sisters serving as  proselyting missionaries in our area came to dinner. 

The sister on the left is Hermana Garcia from Bolivia, and the Sister on the right is Hermana Brown from Page, Arizona.  Hermana Brown is a Navajo, so we couldn't resist inviting her over for Navajo tacos.  She was so excited!  She couldn't wait to tell her grandma that she got real Navajo tacos in Guatemala!  They were delightful dinner guests.

Earlier this week we walked down to the nursery and bought another hanging plant for our patio.  This beautiful fern adds a lot to the hanging garden.

We still aren't sure if we have tomato plants, and they aren't growing very fast, but here is an updated photo of our vegetable garden pot.  We also planted some pepper seeds, but they aren't big enough to take a picture yet.