Uneventful Weeks?

Great Sisters!

Wow what luggage!

Presidente y Hermana Anaya with 4 sisters going home and one
sister who had served here a few months ago and came back to
say good bye to these sisters. 

Just when you think that things are starting to become a little routine, you look back over the pictures you've downloaded and are amazed at the interesting things that have happened!  We are having a flood of missionaries starting to go home, now that the generation from the age change announcement are coming into their 2 years.  This month we only had five leave, one Elder from Uruguay and three hermanas from the United States,and a fourth from Canada but in May we have 17 leaving and in June and August are looking at 30 or more each month.
   
Happy Birthday to one great Elder!
He had a lot of well-wishers and little candy bars were handed out to all.  Later, we spent a night out with some of our other missionary friends at a great Italian restaurant called Italiani's in another section of town.  They even sang a birthday song to him in Spanish-Italian.

Dinner at Italiani's... Great food!

Well wishers!

Spring has really sprung here.  Although many things stay green all through the "winter" here, the temperatures stay in the 60's and 70's.  Some of the trees lose their leaves.  It is beginning the "rainy season" now, summer, and we have seen the low 80's with a few rain storms but more to come they say. Things are "greening up" and the grass and flowers are really coming up!  The flowers we have to baby at home or plant inside grow like weeds here.

We made a trip with a couple of Hermanas and the office Elders into Polanco to work on Visas.  The new downtown areas are amazing.  There are many beautiful buildings.  We've thrown in a few pictures to show you.  If you double click on the pictures they should enlarge, so check out the window washers on the tall glass one.

We have some very cool pictures of the men who are working to recover the Angel Moroni with gold plating and last week we were able to get up to the Girls' Camp southeast of the city, so we'll post them next week.

We are grateful for this chance to be here and hope we are doing some good.  We are learning a lot.  We love and appreciate our wonderful family and friends.

Carl's Jr in Down town

Two happy Elders after each had a hot dog and
slice of pizza at Costco. Then a big ice cream to top it off! We
really had to talk to get Elder Egües to try the pizza and ice cream
but we have now made a convert!