Quito, Ecuador Temple

Quito, Ecuador Temple
Here is where we will be working until Feb. 2023

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Dear Readers,

We hope as you read this blog of our mission to the Quito, Ecuador temple you will feel the joy and happiness we are experiencing by being in the service of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We hope you can experience some of what we feel. Christine and I met in Quito, Ecuador 51 years ago while serving as missionaries. We are going home.


John and Christine

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Monday, March 9, 2015

March 2nd through March 8th

 March 2nd through March 8th:  Monday we made a trip to the distribution center to buy things for some of the temple workers that aren't available here in Mexico.  Mom took it easy with her knee and in the evening it started to snow.  Tuesday we had a real snow storm but by noon the roads had been plowed and I went to lunch with Doug Thayne.  
Charlotte and her daughter Tilda out in Tilda's first snowstorm.
Notice my parking job.  I did a 360 degree turn in Charlotte's driveway.  I usually don't park like I backed in.  The only real snow we experienced while in Utah.  It was enough to remind us we don't like winter.
He is just finishing up doing all the millwork and GFRG in the Trujillo Temple in Peru and he has the contract for the Rome temple next.  It was a lot of fun to catch up with him.  He is another one of our friends who served in Ecuador when we were young.  Sorry, no picture of Doug.  I picked up the baptismal liners that we had ordered for the temple from the Temple Department.  In the evening, we went to dinner with Bryce and Kate at Simply Thai in Sandy.  It was great fun to be able to talk with both of them, without the interruption of “kidlets”.  We are so blessed to have all of our children married to great spouses and in the process of raising wonderful grandchildren.  
Dinner with Bryce and Kate at Simply Thai.  Good food and even better company.
Wednesday we went out to Kate’s house and I gave her a blessing and we said our goodbyes to her family.  
Poppa getting snuggles from Abby.
I got my blood checked one more time and then we went to lunch with Paul and Liz Belnap.  I went to high school with both of them and they remain some of our closest and dearest friends.  
Lunch with our good friends, Paul and Liz Belnap.  I went to high school with these two great friends.
In the evening, we went to dinner with Lee and Connie Crayk and Lynn Crayk.  Diana was off in California with one of her daughters having fun. We are sorry we missed seeing her.  We reminisced about our time together in Bolivia and got caught up on current events.  Lee is a sealer in the Draper Temple and enjoying his service there.  Connie is the stake extraction/indexing leader.  It was fun to see dear old friends.  After dinner, we went to James and Kirstin’s home to give them both a blessing and say good bye to their sweet children.  James has been struggling with a case of shingles.  
Saying good by to Rigby and Emme.  Emme cried when she saw me come in the house and she cried when Nana had to leave.
Thursday we got up early and went to John’s house to say goodbye to his family.  I made Swedish pancakes one last time.  
Saying good bye to John and Jill's 4 munchkins.
We then went to Evan and Miles’ school to watch them in the school play, Peter Pan.  Way cute and fun for them.  
Miles and Evan in their pirate costumes.  They were pirates in Peter Pan.
More of Evan in Peter Pan.
More of Miles in Peter Pan.
It was really a cute play.
Mom and Evan and Miles after the play.
Next it was a trip to Layton to have a post-op visit with the doctor that fixed mom’s knee. He took the stitches out and said she was good to go.  We then drove back to Charlotte’s home and loaded up our suitcases and stuff.  
Saying good bye to Tilda.  She and I bonded, almost.
We said good bye to Tilda and Charlotte and then drove to SLC and had lunch with my brother Van and his wife Maude.  They are great people and we are so blessed to have such wonderful family supporting us.  After lunch we drove to St. George.  We arrived about 8:30pm and were warmly welcomed at Tad and Tove’s new home in Ivins.  They only moved there last November and they made room for us, even though Mark, one of their sons, and four of his kids were staying with them for the weekend.  
My brother Tad and sister-in-law Tove.  They were so generous to us.  Thanks Bro.
Friday we did some last minute shopping and then we went to dinner with Tad and Tove.  After dinner we played some Rummi Cube and a game of sets and runs.  It was a lot of fun to spend time with them and see Mark and his children.  Saturday morning we were up early and Tad dropped us off at the shuttle that took us to the airport in Las Vegas.  We had no problems getting out of the country this time.  After arriving in Mexico City we took a bus to the TAPO, one of the many big bus stations and we had to wait 4 hours for our bus.  
Selfie of us waiting for the bus back to Oaxaca.  Only 10 more hours to go.  We didn't look this good when we arrived.
We left on time, 11:00pm and arrived home at 6:00 am Sunday morning.  Mom’s knee ached for most of the bus ride back to Oaxaca and so she did not get much sleep.  We both went to bed and got up and went to a Sacrament meeting that started at noon.  The Rays, our next door neighbors, took pity on us and fed us lunch.  I had to make popcorn for breakfast.  We really need to make a trip to the store.  We are glad to be back here in the mission field.  It was fun to see all our kids and spend time with our grand kids and it was a good thing to get Chris’ knee fixed and I got the medication I needed.  We crammed a lot of living into 3 weeks and now we need to get some rest.  We look forward to being back in the temple.
We brought back stuff for 9 different people.
This is what we brought back for us.  Notice the Good and Plenty.  They are good and I got plenty. (7 lbs)

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