Week 5 and 6

Week 5

Mon. Jan. 16^th: Today was P-Day, but we started by working in the Temple from 7:00am to about 9:00am. This was a special session of iniciatory for the gardeners who work on the temple grounds. We then went to la cancha, the huge market that sells everything. I will take some more pictures next time because every time we find new and interesting things. We finished off the day with a family home evening on genealogy. It made me want to get back into our family history. Tuesday night we watched a film called “Courageous”. It was made by a faith based group and we thought you kids should all watch it and then tell us what you think. Wednesday night I was called up to the temple to help during the evening mom decided to go with me and we worked for about 4 hours. There is a big group of members from the southern part of Bolivia. Friday mom made chocolate chip cookies. Let’s just say we have not got the high altitude baking figured out. I guess more flour and less baking soda. She made a big batch for our Monday outing. Mom is now in charge of the monthly outing of all the temple missionaries. We have 14 couples signed up for Monday’s first outing. Saturday we went to lunch with President Crayk and Connie his wife. We went to “Tuesday’s”. It was the fourth time we have gone to that restaurant trying to have their ribs. Saturday we had success and they really were great. This is a knock off of Ruby Tuesday in the states. Sunday we gave our first lesson on Temple prep. We had a good outline we had prepared and of course we left in on the kitchen table. We winged it. Next week will be more difficult because we now have asked all our questions to get to know them.

Week 6

Mon. Jan. 23^rd: Today’s outing is to take our lunches and ride a bus to the top of a hill that sits kinda in the center of the city and visit the statue of Christ that is on the top. It is the largest Christos in South America. We all meet at 10am and all 28 eight of us get on a bus that we have rented and head off. Mom told everyone that they needed to bring a song we could sing. Our song was the “The wheels on the bus” with the words in both English and Spanish.

Las ruedas del bus
Giran y giran
Giran y giran
Giran y giran
Las ruedas del bus
Giran y giran
Por la ciudad.

Los limpiaparabrisas hacen,
Tris, tris, tris
Tris, tris, tris
Tris, tris, tris.
Los limpiaparabrisas hacen,
Tris, tris, tris,
Por la ciudad.

Las puertas del bus hacen,
Abre y cierra
Abre y cierra
Abre y cierra.
Las puertas del bus hacen,
Abre y cierra
Por la ciudad.

El chofer en el bus dice,
"¡Ir al fondo!
¡Ir al fondo!
¡Ir al fondo!"
El chofer en el bus dice,
"¡Ir al fondo!"
Por la ciudad.

Los bebés en el bus hacen,
"¡bua, bua, bua!
¡bua, bua, bua!
¡bua, bua, bua!"
Los bebés en el bus hacen,
"¡bua, bua, bua!"
Por la ciudad.

La mamá en el bus dice,
"Chis, chis, chis,
Chis, chis, chis,
Chis, chis, chis."
La mamá en el bus dice,
"Chis, chis, chis"
Por la ciudad.

La bocina del bus hace,
Tut, tut, tut,
Tut, tut, tut,
Tut, tut, tut,
La bocina del bus hace
Tut, tut, tut,
Por la ciudad.

Only about 4 people brought a song but it was still fun. Everyone sang “Give said the little stream” either in English or Spanish. It only took about a half hour to arrive.

We spent about 1 ½ hours on top and the views really were impressive and then we rode back .

One of the Latin couples, the Delgados, had a surprise for everyone. They had prepared hamburgers for everyone. So we had another lunch in the cafeteria in the guest house. Everyone seemed to enjoy the short but fun outing. We ended the day having family home evening with 3 other couples at the Crayk’s home watching “New York Dolls”. Tues: I spent the afternoon and evening in the temple trying to get some of the extra ordinance work done that the Pres. Has asked all the missionaries to do, in addition to their regular shifts. Wed: 12 of the men missionaries started at 6:30am because it is really hard to get our goal of iniciatories done so we all decided to have a special session just for us. We did 60 in an hour and a half. I officiated on the first session. There were 57 people on the session and the room only has 50 seats. We had to add folding chairs. It’s nice to see the temple so full and busy. We went to dinner, Italian, with the Crayks and the Jackmans. Thurs: Today was the first day we had to use an umbrella to get to the temple. This is the rainy season but it mostly rains at night, but it rained most of the day today. There has been a big group from Argentina here this week. We stayed in and studied in the afternoon. Friday: We got a call in the afternoon about 4:00 pm from the Elders in our ward and they said they were here at the temple and were going to meet Diane and Rudy, married and in our temple prep class, the little baby I was holding in last week’s blog is theirs, Janet, one of the girls that got baptized a couple of blogs back and a member of the ward, Sister Callata, single. The four members were coming to do Baptisms for the Dead. So mom and I got dressed and went and met them. The couple hadn’t showed up at 4:30 so we left mom outside waiting for them and I took the other 2 sisters and the Elders in and we got started in the Baptistery. I changed so that I could officiate and then about 15 min.s latter Diane and Rudy showed up. We got done about 6:30pm and when we got out mom was in the waiting room. She played grandma to Diane and Rudy’s little baby. I think we all had a nice time. Sat. Jan. 28^th: It’s 6:00am and I just finished writing this so I guess I will Post it and if anything interesting happens today or Sunday I will add it to next week.