More Work Begins . . .

Last Sunday our manager, Bro. Lugo, took us to Azua to train the SR committee..  While there we stopped to visit his relatives.  This is the home he helped build for his parents.

On the drive home we hit a nice size rainstorm which created a beautiful rainbow.

Could never get a really good picture of all the water from the storm, but this kind of shows what it was like.

While shopping for food Saturday in La Serena, my nose picked up a familiar smell - chinola!  Sure enough they were stacking in up fresh off the truck.  It's hard to find so, of course, we bought too many.

Dad wanted to make juice from it.  First you get the pulp out.

Then you blend it with some water.

Then you strain it and add more water and lots of sugar.  And I mean lots of sugar!

Taste test . . .

Lip smackin' good . . . has to be with all that sugar!
(But P.S. Dad has been staying close to the bano ever since)

Today we traveled to Bani for their District Conference and change of District President.  Guess who we finally found?  Dallin's brother-in-law Elder Mecham.  He';s been on his mission 18 months and looks like he's doing great.  Even though we had never met him before, it felt like "home."

And last of all my new buddy who talked my leg off after conference.  I told him I didn't speak Spanish, but it didn't slow him down.  He was very disappointed though when he counted to ten for me in English then kept going, "ten and one, ten and two, ten and three..."  and I told him how it really was :  eleven, twelve, thirteen.  He went back to jabbering in Spanish.

As for Monday through Friday, a lot happened just not picture-worthy (office work).  We had a nice 2 hour appointment with Bro. Alvarado who could tell things weren't going well for half of our companionship.  He created 2 assignments for me to tackle and now I have more than I can handle, but that's better than wasting time.  My first task is to teach Bro. Lugo better English.  The second task is to create a plan to reactivate returned missionaries from 10 years and more back.  The juices are flowing!

As someone special to me quoted this past week "With God, all things are possible."

We pray for all of you daily and appreciate the great example you are to us.

Love,
Dad & Mom
Grandpa & Grandma