October 31st
through November 6th:
After our morning trip to Walmart and Price Smart we decided to take all
the missionaries to Mega Paca—an enormous Good Will/Deseret Industries store. (
See the post October 17th through October 23rd to read about Mega Paca.) We had a contest to see who could find the
best deal. We had a number of
winners. I was especially proud of my
sign that explains how I have lost so much weight, because many people have
asked how I have done it.
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| The May's found an olive wood statue of Christ. Under the price tag of 85 Quetz (about 11.00 dollars) was a price tag for 99.00 dollars. They won best deal. |
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| Elder Fillmore won for best article of clothing. The shirt is covered with mosquitos and the word OFF. |
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| My sign won for most inspirational item. |
We then drove
everyone to the movie. We saw “The Queen
of Katwe”. On the way out of the movies,
the mall was packed with kids trick or treating at all the stores in the mall.
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| At the mall they had other activities for the kids. |
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| A great big slide. |
Saturday we had a big group from Coban
at the temple. Mom wanted to say
good-bye to them, so she went out and thanked them for their visit and had some
pictures taken with them.
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| Mom with some of the saints from Coban. |
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| More of the saints from Coban. |
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| One of the buses from Carcha, near Coban. |
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| Mom's new friend. |
After our
shift finished, we went to dinner with all the missionaries. I know another picture of us eating isn’t
that interesting, but we can’t take pictures of much else.
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| Dinner Saturday night. L to R. Frampton's, Winkfield's, Hurst's, Jones', visiting from Idaho, Fillmore's, mom, and the May's |
Sunday we went and spoke at the Villa
Hermosa stake conference. It was a very
nice meeting and we felt uplifted to be with the so many faith filled people.
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| Villa Hermosa stake conference. |
On the way home, we passed a Santa Claus
Parade with a marching band and of course Santa and his elves. We have no idea what that was about, but we
assume it was a shopping promotion.
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| Santa and one of his elf's. |
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| The marching band. |
Sunday afternoon I went to the temple and
had a training meeting with all of our sealers.
They are a great group of men and I enjoy serving with them. Two of them have been sealers since the
temple was dedicated 32 years ago. Then
we went to the area offices for the monthly “Break the Fast” dinner. It is fun to get together with all the other
senior missionaries that are serving here in Guatemala City.
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| Sunday dinner at the area offices. |
We got a Skype call from President Pena and
his wife, who we served with in Oaxaca.
They have just finished their first week as President and Matron of the
Merida Temple in Mexico. It was
wonderful to talk to them and they had a few questions. We talked for about 30 minutes. They will be great and we love them
dearly. We finished the week by talking
to some of our children and grandchildren.
We love them so much and at times it is hard to not be able to cuddle
and hug them, but we feel so blessed to be here and to be able to serve in the
House of the Lord.
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| The flowers in front of the MTC are in full bloom. |
1 comment:
As always it is so nice to read your blog. I loved your finding the shut your mouth if you want to lose weight sign?
It seems like you ate always having soooo much fun. And you are very clever organizing games outings and so on. I can' wait to be there and we can also be part of the fun.
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