Most days fall in this category now, but Sunday is still
special. We drive 25 minutes into Grecia
and attend Sacrament Meeting. It was the
first Sunday of February, so it was fast and testimony meeting. In my mind I had rehearsed a Spanish
testimony and was going to surprise the congregation with my acumen of their
language. I am beginning to understand
some of it now, and a lot of it when it is in print form.
We have our
directions almost mastered, so we can leave home without a two hour wander to
get back again. The days are so
beautiful, and the flowering trees and bushes are magnificent. I don’t recognize many of them yet. One tree which is flowering profusely now,
and blazing orange is guachepelin. There
are no leaves on the trees, only huge branches of these brilliant orange
flowers. They are very tall and broad
trees and present all over the country.
They are such a contrast to the green prevalence. Some of the beautiful flowering bushes which
are fuschia in color, are bouganvilla. I
have seen them in many parts of the world.
There are pink flowering bushes, which are gorgeous, but I don’t know
what they are named. We also saw a large
cluster of morning glories along the road.
The blooms are larger than in North America,
and brilliant blue/purple.
The people
at the chapel were so very friendly. One
girl, who had never made recognition of us, and we see her week after week,
greeted us with a hug this morning, and that is gratifying.
We have a
new missionary in the Branch. His name
is Elder Bennington from Ohio. I asked him if he knew that was the only
Japanese name for a place in the U.S. and he had never heard that. Ohio
is a Japanese greeting similar to hello, how are you. I don’t know about Hawaii, there are so many Japanese people
there, but I am not familiar with the names of places in that state.
Next week
is the Valentine’s Day social at the chapel after the morning services. We will stay for the total program and
prepare for the visit with the group afterwards. I think these types of socials are so good
for a congregation.
I was
teasing the president yesterday about not shaving for the trip to the temple. He took it in good humour and this morning
made a point of showing me that he had shaved.
He told his wife I was just like his mother. I accept that. He is a charming person, and so very
likeable. I offered to help him with his
English, too.
The
high speed internet that Melaney was so pleased with, jammed today, and isn’t
working. The other plug in unit isn’t
working either, so she is as good as lost without her computer. She has a game going, but that won’t take the
place of the internet for her. She will
have to get it going tomorrow. She receives so much inquiry on the net about The
Chill Bill that she can’t afford the internet to be down for too long.
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