January 22nd through January 28th

January 22^nd through January 28^th:  Monday we took some of the missionaries to the artisan’s market by the airport.  Mom needed some books for the temple workers to write a farewell message in for Sister Winkfield and Sister Fisher who will be going home in February.  Mom spotted a Noah’s ark and we knew that Sister Ellington was looking for one, so we took a photo and sent it to her.  Well, after we had left the market we got a message that she wanted us to buy it.  So we told her we would go back on Wednesday to get it.  

The Noah's ark for Sister Ellington.

We had a Family Home Evening for the English speaking missionaries and watched a documentary called “Two Brothers” from the 5000 Days Project.  It was really interesting.  Sister Fisher went to high school with the filmmaker who is not LDS.  It is worth the time to watch it.  The new MTC President and his wife, Craig and Judy Hill, joined us.  

Family Home Evening

The film we watched.

On Tuesday we went to our paint class and then we did our afternoon shift.  

Mom added a lot of green leaves.

I'm calling Badger done.  He has eyebrows but they are white and it is really hard to see them.

Wednesday morning on our walk, we went to a little market café right by our house to buy eggs for breakfast and ended up eating breakfast at the café.  

Breakfast on our walk.

It is a cute little cafe.

Then we went to the artisan’s market for the Noah’s ark and then our afternoon shift.  Wednesday night the Elder and Sister Call, who are now serving in Frey, arrived.  They came for a sealing of one of the members from Calbuco who was part of the Rabinal branch where they had just finished serving.  Friday morning it was our turn to take the missionaries shopping.  Somehow we got the time mixed up and we left at 8:00am.  We finished at Walmart and got to Price Smart 20 minutes before it opened, so we had to go to MacDonald’s for breakfast.  

Breakfast at McDonald's

When we went to the temple, the couple the Call’s came to see sealed was just leaving the temple for pictures.  

The young bride from Calbuco.

Saturday was the busiest day we have had during our two years serving in the Guatemala City temple.  We ended up setting a record for the number of endowments.  It was a great day to be in the temple.  After we finished about 7:30pm, we drove the Holman’s to Krispy Kreme doughnuts.  It had the grand opening at 9:00am.  The traffic was unreal.  It took us 30 minutes to go ¼ mile.  The Fisher’s were ahead of us with the Garcia family.  Elder Fisher got out and walked and bought all the doughnuts we needed and was waiting for us when we got to the store.  We pulled out of the line and were home in about 3 minutes.  We then had all the missionaries over for doughnuts.  

They are within walking distance.

Yum Yum

Doughnut time

Sunday I went to another Coordinating Council meeting for the East mission.  We had a quick bite to eat and I went to the temple with 2 dozen doughnuts from you know where to do a training session for all the sealers.  It was a very productive meeting and I think we will see some changes that are needed.  They enjoyed the doughnuts.  Mom went to a choir practice for stake conference in a couple of weeks.  We talked to all of our kids and they all seem like they are doing great.  We miss them tremendously.  We had a great week and are still pinching ourselves to see if this is really happening.  I’m convinced now that they are not going to call and say they made a mistake.  They will let us finish out this assignment even though they might have realized that they had the wrong John Norman.