September 15th through September 21st

September 15th through September 21st:  Monday we again went on an outing.  This time to San Bartolo Coyotepec which is famous for barro negro pottery, (black clay).  Pottery has been made in this town for over 2000 years. 

We saw a demonstration of how they make the pots.

In one of the black clay pottery shops.

The 3 pieces of Black Clay Pottery mom bought.

The first church was built by the Spanish in 1532. 

The church in San Bartolo.

The church in San Bartolo.

The church in San Bartolo.

Lunch at the Barro Negro Restaurante.

The owner of the restaurant's kids.

Main Square in San Bartolo.

We then came home and had dinner at the Pena’s, with Laura and Luis Perez and their daughter.  This was a traditional posole dinner.  This is eaten in celebration of independence from the Spanish.  We played Mexican train dominos until 11:00pm and then watched the President of Mexico receive the flag and go out on the balcony of the palace in Mexico City and shout Viva Mexico, Viva Mexico, Viva Mexico.  We then went outside and shouted ourselves and waved Mexican flags. 

Posole Soup.

Dinner at the Pena's.

Tuesday we didn’t have presidency meeting because President Atkinson was still traveling back from a conference.  But other than that is was a typical week.  We did have 5 buses come on Saturday and that is always fun getting them organized and into the temple.  Saturday afternoon I went back over to the temple and spoke to some investigators about the differences between a temple and our chapels.  Sunday, we spoke in the Violetes ward and both of us felt like we did a much better job this time than last week.   I think we were a bit rusty last week.  After church we had 3 meetings at the temple for 4 hours.  We got home at 7:30pm and called most of our children.  It was a good week and they are flying by.