Cayala

     Another Sunday afternoon already!!  We had our devotional today on Gathering Israel and it went well.  It is in English, that's a plus.  Dad does so well, last night he looked on his computer for his Keynote slide presentation for today and for some reason there was a problem with it and he couldn't open it. So quickly he found pictures and put a new slide presentation together.  Amazing. I need a few days to get ready for something like that.  

     Last Thursday I had to give a 20 minute little class to the new missionaries on the Doctrines of Christ....in Spanish!!!  When Dad told me the Branch President wanted me to do that I felt like sitting down to have a good cry and almost did, but decided if he asked me to do this, he must think it is possible so I will give it a try.  Well, I did it!  I had them look up 3 Nephi 27:13-22 and take 3 minutes to read and re-read it if there was time.  Then I had one person in the companionship teach the other person what they learned for 3 minutes and then the other companion teach for 3 minutes.  I then asked them to share with me what they had learned.  One of the teachers at the CCM who is bi-lingual whispered into my ear as they were talking and they gave really good answers.  Then I shared some scriptures with them and told them their first convert needed to be themselves.  I shared my testimony and ended in 20 minutes.  All of this Spanish was written down of course, so when and if I have to do this again I can improve on it a little.

     While sitting in Sacrament meeting today, Dad was announcing the speakers and announced that the other counselor’s wife would speak and then the counselor.  I realized that the Branch President and his wife had spoken last week, so I then began to recognize a pattern.  I am pretty sure they are going to ask me to speak in two weeks because Fast Sunday is next week.  I guess I had better start preparing!  This will also be in Spanish.

     We went to a place this week here in Guatemala City called Cayala.  A large shopping area that is kind of an outdoor mall.  There are large white buildings with stores on the ground floor and condos and apartments on the upper levels, lots of restaurants and a few play areas.  

They even have a church. Rumor has it that it was built to launder drug money, all I know is that this place took a lot of money to put together. 

I have added some pictures of the area and the church and also some pictures of Dad next to some cars on display there. I thought you guys might like the cars. Check out the name on the windshield.

    At the CCM Thursday I asked one of the teachers, Mario, about his suit and he took off the suit coat and showed me the lining.  It is the Guatemala flag!  Dad turned the coat wrong side out and had him put it on and model it.  Mario told us he felt like Michael Jackson.  

    Here are a couple of street salesmen and a very crowded Red Bus. 

And one more picture of a pickup full of people.  

    Check out the scriptures on the Doctrine of Christ when you get a chance.

    So glad Lana is much better and Sam and Jonathan made it one more year to enjoy another birthday!  Did everyone have black tongues after enjoying the tire cake?

      Love you all and hope all is well!     MOM/Grammy