August 8th through August 14th

August 8^th through August 14^th: Monday was a regular P-day with shopping and laundry.  Tuesday mom got invited to a surprise birthday party for Sister Alonzo, the wife of Elder Alonzo who is in the Area Presidency.  There was quite a group of women there.  

Surprise birthday luncheon for Sister Alonzo.  She is the second from the left, sitting down.

Wednesday we had the morning shift and presidency meeting.  Thursday we had the afternoon shift.  Friday we had off and I found about 300 names, all cousins, to take to the temple.  Saturday we had the early shift.  Getting up at three is not the problem, staying awake in the afternoon is.  Sunday we spoke in the Nimajuyu stake conference.  Elder Ocampo, an area seventy, from Honduras was the presiding authority.  It was a very nice conference and we enjoyed the Spirit.

Just before stake conference starts in the Nimajuyu stake.

  

Children's Choir Nimajuyu stake conference

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We hurried home and had a quick dinner of leftover pulled pork.  We left for another meeting for all the adults in the Esperanza stake.  Brother Carranza and Brother Abadillo had programmed my phone so that the GPS would get us there.  It is a little hard to find.  Well “Lola”, the woman in my phone, gave us some interesting directions that led us on an adventure.  We went the long way and ended up going over two mountains and on dirt roads that were rutted and steep.  Luckily for us, the rain had stopped and the roads were not yet mud.  Mom thought we were lost and wanted to turn around, but we pressed on and after about a 30 minute detour through the back country we arrived at our destination.  Nobody could believe we had come that way.  Lola, our GPS gal, wanted to take us home the same way, but we didn’t follow her.  It took us over an hour to get there and about 20 minutes to get home, following the directions from some of the members.  We got home about 5:00pm and talked to most of the kids on Facetime or Skype.  We are so grateful for technology that lets us see our children and grandchildren. We are glad to be back attending stake conferences.  It is so nice to feel the Spirit as we talk about the temple and testify of Christ.  We have stake conferences the next three weekends. It was another great week. 

One of the towns we passed as we drove the back way.

 

This is looking back on Guatemala city.

This was the good part of the steep and rutted dirt road.

President Juarez gave mom this floral arrangment from  the stake conference we attended in the morning.  It is incredible and smells so nice.

These next pictures are of some of the flowers in the arrangement.