May 15th through May 21st

 May 15th through May 21^st:  Tuesday I got up early and went with Brother Salazar, part of the security team at the temple, downtown to the bus station to pick up Brother and Sister Gordon from Belize.  At 5:00am they did not want me downtown alone.  They arrived only 15 minutes late and we had them back at the apartments before 6:00am.  Chris and I then went to the temple and did a session and then had presidency meeting.  We then took the Hurst’s and the Gordon’s to Brother Jacome’s  street food stand, for lunch.  He is one of our temple workers and has not been coming lately.  I got to talk to him about what is going on.  He is having a difficult time finding help, someone he can trust to cook when he needs to come to his shift.  We then took the Gordon’s grocery shopping.  

On our walk Tuesday, the air smelled like perfume. 

Mom is killing it at the gym.

Lunch at Brother Jacome's food stand.

Brother Jocome cooking up our lunch.

Wednesday we went to our painting class and then to a birthday celebration for Brother Reyna.  He turned 74 on Wednesday.  He is so cute and a real asset and blessing for us in the temple.  We then did our afternoon shift.  

Kimball is about done.

This is the picture I have been working off of.

Mom's landscape of Lake Atitlan is coming along nicely.

I got my chest antiqued this week.

Brother Reyna's birthday party.

Click below to see his celebration             Happy Birthday Brother Reyna

Saturday after the morning shift, we went to the Utatlan stake conference and spoke in the adult session.  

Adult session Saturday night.

Sunday we went to the general session and we both spoke.  In the evening, we went to a fireside for the single adults over 30 and spoke on family history.  We had a power point showing all the things you can add to an ancestor’s page, things like photos, documents, stories and audio clips. We really had a great conference and felt the Spirit and the love of our Savior.  We always get recharged when things go well and we feel the Spirit so powerfully.  What a blessing it is in our lives to have these wonderful opportunities every week.  

Sunday morning they had a children's choir singing before the conference session started.

Click below to hear the children singing           Children's Choir

Kid are kids everywhere.

Click below to hear the combined choir.           Adult and Children's Choir

After the Sunday session.

L to R President Caffaro, mission president, President Avila, stake president, Elder Galvez, area seventy, and some old guy whose suit coat doesn't fit since he has lost 40+ lbs.

The Caffaro's only have a few weeks left.  It was nice to be with them one last time.

We are getting excited to be in Senahu in two weeks with Elder Renlund for the creation of the new stake there.  We found out this week that Elder and Sister Reyna, the area public affairs directors, are going to ride up with us.  It will be fun to have them with us because that 7 hour drive is a killer.