Thursday, September 16, 2010

Bicentennial In Mexico!


HOLA!  From Mexico !  When last we wrote, we were celebrating Independence Day for the USA.  Now we’ve been celebrating Mexico’s Independence.  Last Friday, we celebrated with Benemerito and the Zarahemla Stake.  Last night we celebrated with the Arbolillo Stake.  In both cases, there was a lot of traditional dancing and music.  And lots of traditional food!  Love the food!   love all the friendly people!

The Tacos Pastoral were the most popular!Dancing at Benemerito


My favorite was the elote:  Corn on the cob brushed generously with mayonaise, rolled in cheese, and dusted with Chilli powder.   MMMMM.......
We loved seeing everyone in their traditional dress.  And we loved the traditional dancing and singing.  Such a great beat!


The work at the Call Center is busy and booming.  We’re so glad to have more and more volunteers and more missionaries—some already here and some more on the way!  There’s much work to do.  We are also involved with a new Pilot Program in PEF and we are involved in visiting and training Stake Presidencies and Stake Education Specialists.  We handle the 3 missions from Mexico City involved in the program, and the Norton’s handle the missions from out of the city.  Sundays and weekends are very busy for us. 
Sister Castillo at the Call Center with the vounteers.
More volunteers!  We need more space!
Here are the Norton's from Provo.  They stayed with us for 5 weeks.
In spite of all the extra workload, we feel blessed to be able to be teaching another Institute English Class. It’s been fun working with these youth again and is always a lift to our day.


Jeff is teaching Sunday School again. He studies and stews over it, but he has been blessed with the spirit there and we’ve had some great lessons.

What a fun English class we have!  Here they are after a relay race of drawing the different body parts on the board!
 
 
It seems that we are constantly facing new challenges and hard things to do.  To me, that would be the theme of our mission.  I feel like such a baby.  Well, we have a brand new and a very big challenge—We have lost our big bed!  We had put two twin beds together to make a King-size bed and were very comfortable for the last 5 months.  Well the twin beds were needed for Benemerito students, so now Jeff and I have to make due with a very small queen size bed that feels like a double bed.  Maybe it is a double bed.  All we know is that it is very small, that Jeff’s feet hang over the edge, and that  we’re knocking each other all night.  This too shall pass
.  No picture of the bed, so I thought we'd show some other challenges--Mexico City Traffic.  On this trip to the Immigration Offices to get our visas, we watched a car get slammed while on their busy highway.  -- something I felt we could see everytime we're out in traffic.  They drive very close and aggressively.
Here is Jeff at the Tiangues -- everything is just too low for him!

We can’t complain too much. We have a two day holiday! We’re able to get caught up on some cleaning, some blogging, some letter writing, and later on, we’re going to a concert and program here at Benemerito. Tomorrow, we’re going to the Temple.


We send our Love to All.

Here are some other photos: 


Here we are at the Arbolillo Celebration with Fermin, one of our most dedicated volunteers.


One of our traditions -- donuts every shopping day.

A nice little trip to the Anthropology Museum in Mexico City.
Any similarities?

Our Last Trip to the temple with the Norton's, Sister Castillo, Sister Martinez, and there we ran into the Camarillo's.  Looking forward to going tomorrow. 

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