For the last 2 or 3 weeks, we have been visiting apartments again to do inspections and make repairs as needed.  Dale takes time to teach the elders how to fix their calentador (shower heater) and toilet handles as well as how to clean their toilets and showers.  When we are done, if their score is 5 or less, they receive "blessings"  in the form of a candy bar of their choice.  They are learning and we have only had one or two apartment that were less than desirable so far.  

   We meet the zone leaders in a pre-arranged place and they take us around to visit the different apartments.  We get to spend time with the missionaries and they benefit from Dale's ability to fix and repair almost anything.  We have 3 zones left out of 9 total and the Danielsons do 2 of those zones.  

   We have had the opportunity to spend time with Pres. Mask and his wife over the last couple of weeks learning some of the things he has discovered over the years.  He is the Guatemala Temple Pres. and he will be leaving this week I believe.  He was a missionary serving here as a young man and was made a general authority in the first quorum of the seventy at one time.  He gave us much information about Guatemala and how it relates to the Book of Mormon. 

    No one really knows where Lehi and his family landed when they came to the promised land but they have some pretty good ideas.  We were able to go to a sugar cane field in Santa Lucia and see a stone that could relate to Lehi and Sariah and the "seven tribes".  It is about 20 tons and they have attempted to excavate it from the field, but have found that the rock is larger underground than on top and they have been unable to get under it to move it.  Archeologists have done a cast of it and placed the cast in a museum in Santa Lucia and also at BYU.  There is one more cast in the yard of a little old lady in Tucson, Arizona which has a flaw in it.  Lehi means jawbone in Hebrew and this stone has what appears to be a jawbone on the man's chest.

   The BOM speaks about the Lamanites, Lemuelites, Ishmaelites and the Zoramites, Jacobites, Josephites and Nephites.  The Mayan culture speaks of the 7 tribes and they are divided into the 3 tribes and the 4 tribes.  The rock we are speaking of has a u shaped space that contains the glyphs of 7 different people.  The u signifies the womb and it has the symbol of gushing amniotic fluid and an umbilical cord from the u to the foot of the main figure who we suppose to be Lehi.  It is in very good condition and was very hard to find in the middle of the sugar cane field with the cane over 10 to 12 feet high.  Also the "sugar ants" sting like crazy when they bite.  The sugar cane field is full of them.

  We also had a chance to go to what could be the waters of Mormon.  The interesting thing there is that a truck load (the back of a cattle truck) got out ahead of us and as we headed to the water and passed them, they seemed very excited.  When I said "Buenos dias" to them, they said that they were there for a baptism.  There was a small baby in a basket.  

   How interesting that they would come to this possibly special spot to do a baptism,  a spot that very well could have been the same spot that Alma baptised the converts in his day.  We seem to be drawn very much to the Indigenous people of Guatemala for we have a special spot in our hearts for them.