Chickens

It is Fast Sunday today and 5:00 is almost here.  The time we meet together as Senior missionaries and have a break the fast dinner.  Looking forward to that!

For several months we didn't have many birds here but in the past month they all seem to have returned.  Sometimes in the middle of the night, about 2ish I wake up and wonder why I did, then I hear all the birds and think that is probably the reason.  Really, it isn't just a few, it sounds like a whole flock sitting in the tree just outside our window.  The rainy season has started here once again, not in full force but it has rained every few days for a couple weeks now.

This week I have pictures of chickens.  We passed this truck on the way home from work, not sure if you can see but each cage is full of chickens and when there are that many, they just sit there and don't move much.  

Friday we were in a small town and walked by the market.  One woman had these chickens in baskets out for sale.  What a great way to transport chickens!

The CCM screening was this week, we have only two more left before we come home. There have been fewer and fewer English speaking missionaries here, in two weeks we will be down to two Elders.  I am sure the numbers are down because of school back in the States and after graduation starting in June we will have a lot more.  Here is a picture of Dad taking an x-ray on one of the Latino sisters.

This next week we are going to Costa Rica with some other couples for a few days and won't be home until late Sunday night, so my email will be a day or two late.

In the K'ekchi language they don't say "How are you?", they say " How is your heart?".  Ma sa la chool?  (Spelled phonetically).  I thought that was a neat thing to ask, meaning how is your soul, your disposition, or something similar.  Sa man tiox' (x is pronounced sh) is their answer.  Good, Thank you......so, How are your hearts??  

Love, MOM/Grammy