August 15th through August 21st:

August 15^th through August 21^st: Monday we took all the missionaries shopping, except the Hursts.  They went on a paseo with Bishop De Leon.  We had Family Home Evening at the Missionary Training Center (MTC).  President Morris and his wife hosted all the missionaries that live in temple housing.  They explained the MTC and then we had a tour and finished off the evening with cake and root beer floats.  

Our tour of the MTC.  This is the gym where we work out when we are not on shift in the morning.

Root beer floats and cake.  Can't get much better than that.

Some of the Guatemalans are not so sure if they like root beer. It must be an acquired taste.

Sister Morris dishing up ice cream for the floats.

Tuesday we had the evening shift.  

Wednesday we went over and did a session before presidency meeting and then in the afternoon we spent some time doing family history.  I have about 500 more names to take to the temple.  

This gives you an idea of the extent of our family history work.  Those are the completed cards by month.

Thursday we had the morning shift.  Friday we went to a painting class at Jill Smith’s and then we had the evening shift. 

This is the son and daughter in law and three grand daughters of the Reyna's.  They stopped by for a visit.

Saturday we checked to make sure that the apartment for the Winkfield’s is ready.  Mom did a home study for a couple from the states who are trying to adopt.  The husband works for US Aid.  We did some shopping and then in the evening we picked Elder and Sister Winkfield up from the airport.  It is so good to finally have them here.  We got them settled and went to bed ourselves.  

Eve and Ken Winkfield arriving at the airport.

Sunday we went and spoke at the Alameda stake conference.  We went to their last stake conference in January.  This is the first stake where we have repeated.  

This is one of our temple workers, Narciso Alvarez, who was one of the ushers at the Alameda stake conference.

The choir for stake conference.

Outside after stake conference we had to wait about 30 minutes for all the cars to get out of the parking lot before we could leave.

We came home and fixed some dinner and then we went to speak at the San Carlos Institute of Religion.  Elder Camay, Sister Melgar and I spoke about the essay on the church web site about Joseph Smith’s teachings about the priesthood, temple and women.  We then answered questions from the students.  It was a fun evening.  We got home about 8:00pm and I could not stay awake.  

San Carlos Institute meeting.

We checked in with the kids in Utah who were all together at a family dinner at Kate’s home.  We went to bed at 8:30 and I woke up at 2:30am.  I am doing the blog and family history.  Getting a new missionary couple, the Winkfields, was the highlight of the week.  Sunday was a very nice day and we feel so blessed to be able to have all these opportunities to speak and talk about our Savior and His temple.