Six-week changes and a Welcome Day off.

Boy, a lot has happened in the last 2 weeks! For one thing, we changed apartments to one that hopefully won't get wet with every rain.  That has been time consuming and a lot of work, but hopefully worth it.  We sure appreciated the help of the Elders and our good neighbors!

We had our largest group to date of missionaries going home ...21 in June with 18 of them going home on one day! It made for a crazy time in the airport but we did finally get them on their respective flights. They were filled with mixed emotions as they want to see their families back home but many realize that they may never get back to this part of the world again so it is a sad day too. We will really miss these fine missionaries, they have worked hard and have grown so much!

We will miss Elder Egües, one of our office Elders

On Saturday June 14 a group of 5 senior couples went on a little one-day road trip. We headed south of Mexico City and saw some beautiful country! We first went to Cacahuamilpa National Park. It is a huge cave, unlike any that we have ever been in! it is said to be the largest cave in North America and we believe it! They have explored back 10 kilometers ( about 6 miles) but it goes even further! The tour goes 2 kilometers back in (1.2 miles) and the caverns are enormous with some of them that feel like you are in the Delta Center or Marriott Center! They even have concerts in one of the rooms and it isn't the largest one! Tried to take some photos inside the cave, but they didn't turn out.

These roots were growing right down over the rocky cliff.

You can barely see the ropes for the biplane going across the ravine by the cave.

Starting down the trail into the cave.

The group of some of the Mexico City Missionary couples.

From there we continued south to the town of Taxco. This is called the silver city of Mexico. The town is in the mountains or a better way to describe it is that it is on the side of the mountain! A beautiful town with white buildings and red/orange tile roofs. The streets are narrow and winding with most only wide enough for one car and a couple of people on either side! Cobble stone streets...did we mention that the streets are narrow and winding! We think this is where old VW bugs come to die..as all the taxi's are VW's! We had a nice lunch overlooking the town and then off to shop. There are little silver shops everywhere and I mean everywhere. Of course we had to help the economy by purchasing some items. The travel to Taxco took us through some beautiful mountains that are covered with thick green forests that are a cross between the forrest of the midwest and our mountains at home. Really beautiful country. One town had acres of hot houses where they grow roses...acres and acres of roses. Wish we could have stopped to see more. I guess next time we will have to stop and smell the roses.

We ended the trip in a 5 star restaurant called Las Mañanitas (or the little mornings) in the town of Cuernavaca. The Hotel isn't much to look at from the outside but the inside was something else with African Cranes, Flamingos and Peacocks wandering the grounds. There were also Macaws and other birds...a very nice atmosphere. The food was as good as the atmosphere, too! It was a wonderful trip and so so nice to get out of this massive city into some fresh air.

Every day we learn something new about our jobs as secretaries in the Mission.  The missionaries are great....enthusiastic and helpful.  We are glad to be here and hopefully are doing our part in what the Lord wants done, at least we are doing our best.  We send our love to our wonderful family and friends and neighbors at home.