We spent a week with our children and had a great time, seeing the sights and just being with them.
Notebooks for kids
Art of Copan
Typical dress
truck us as a taxi
Future monster film
White tiger
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Monday, July 8, 2013
Dale tries very hard not to be found on the blog but I just wanted to say how proud I was of him and how touched I was on fast Sunday when he got up to bear his testimony by himself. He stood up and said "Testimonio, himnario and proceeded to read the words to I Believe in Christ. His pronunciation wasn't perfect but we all understood and the Spirit was so strong in the meeting. It has been so hard for him to no be able to communicate with people. He has been a sport and has tried to learn the language, but it has definitely been a difficult thing. There are several people in the branch that speak some English but every lesson, every zone conference, every meeting is in Spanish. He has had to learn patience along the way.
We divided the mission on July 1st and received 2 zones from the Central Mission while we sent 5 zones to the old/new East mission. We sent many wonderful missionaries their way. They are great missionaries and we had the opportunity to meet the new ones last week in zone conference. These were our last zone conferences, bitter sweet. We love the opportunity to see and talk to each missionary at these. What wonderful young servants of God they are.
We will be doing apartment inspections and finishing up the "pass the baton" information that we will leave for the next medical missionaries. We have heard that there is a couple who will be entering the MTC on the 16th of Aug to work at the MTC here as well as help with the health in the mission. The Area Medical Health Advisor lives in our building and also works at the MTC.
We received a new couple about 2 weeks ago who are in their 70s. They put in their papers to help with the mental health screenings for mission calls in SLC and were asked if they would like to go to Guatemala to be the Area Mental Health Advisors. They will be covering all of Central America. We found out yesterday that she is the sister of the wife of Dale's cousin. The Church truly makes the world a small place.
We were blessed with a new little grandson recently. We can hardly wait to get home and hold him! Our family has been so blessed since we have been serving here in Guatemala. Dale's brother's wife passed away recently. We were so sad to lose her but because of e-mail and Skype, we were able to be a part of the funeral and visit with their children who all came home. What a true blessing the knowledge of the gospel is in the eternal scheme of things. How could you stand to lose a loved one if there was no hope of ever seeing them again? For this the Saviour gave his life, that we might all be resurrected and have the opportunity to make covenants in the temple as a family for eternity.
We are definitely trying not to be baggy (Guatemalan words for trunky) but are looking forward to being able to spend time with our children, grandchildren, parents and grandparents, as well as siblings and their families as well. We love them so much and are here to hopefully bear testimony through words and actions of our love of the Savior, testimony of the truth of the restored gospel and knowledge of the blessings of having the Book of Mormon and a living prophet to guide us in these uncertain times.
Lately, reading in the Book of Mormon, it has been more apparent to me that there is much in the BOM for the Jews, Isaiah, in the foreword and in many of the chapters that explain that it is for the convincing of the Jew and the gentile. One day they will know of the truthfulness of this book as well as the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Thanks to all of those people who have served with us here in Guatemala, who live with us here in Victoria Suites and who we have come to love and cherish so dearly. One of the blessings of the mission is just that. To make new friends, eternal friends. We love you all and look forward to seeing many of you soon.
We divided the mission on July 1st and received 2 zones from the Central Mission while we sent 5 zones to the old/new East mission. We sent many wonderful missionaries their way. They are great missionaries and we had the opportunity to meet the new ones last week in zone conference. These were our last zone conferences, bitter sweet. We love the opportunity to see and talk to each missionary at these. What wonderful young servants of God they are.
We will be doing apartment inspections and finishing up the "pass the baton" information that we will leave for the next medical missionaries. We have heard that there is a couple who will be entering the MTC on the 16th of Aug to work at the MTC here as well as help with the health in the mission. The Area Medical Health Advisor lives in our building and also works at the MTC.
We received a new couple about 2 weeks ago who are in their 70s. They put in their papers to help with the mental health screenings for mission calls in SLC and were asked if they would like to go to Guatemala to be the Area Mental Health Advisors. They will be covering all of Central America. We found out yesterday that she is the sister of the wife of Dale's cousin. The Church truly makes the world a small place.
We were blessed with a new little grandson recently. We can hardly wait to get home and hold him! Our family has been so blessed since we have been serving here in Guatemala. Dale's brother's wife passed away recently. We were so sad to lose her but because of e-mail and Skype, we were able to be a part of the funeral and visit with their children who all came home. What a true blessing the knowledge of the gospel is in the eternal scheme of things. How could you stand to lose a loved one if there was no hope of ever seeing them again? For this the Saviour gave his life, that we might all be resurrected and have the opportunity to make covenants in the temple as a family for eternity.
We are definitely trying not to be baggy (Guatemalan words for trunky) but are looking forward to being able to spend time with our children, grandchildren, parents and grandparents, as well as siblings and their families as well. We love them so much and are here to hopefully bear testimony through words and actions of our love of the Savior, testimony of the truth of the restored gospel and knowledge of the blessings of having the Book of Mormon and a living prophet to guide us in these uncertain times.
Lately, reading in the Book of Mormon, it has been more apparent to me that there is much in the BOM for the Jews, Isaiah, in the foreword and in many of the chapters that explain that it is for the convincing of the Jew and the gentile. One day they will know of the truthfulness of this book as well as the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Thanks to all of those people who have served with us here in Guatemala, who live with us here in Victoria Suites and who we have come to love and cherish so dearly. One of the blessings of the mission is just that. To make new friends, eternal friends. We love you all and look forward to seeing many of you soon.
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