Is It Still October?

In October two of my siblings celebrated their birthdays and I got to thinking about how grateful I am for the love and support of my brothers and sisters through the years. I have been blessed with a wonderful family, not only my brothers and sisters but their spouses as well. I just wanted to say thank you for all you do for me and the love you share with me and my family. When our children have been away from home going to school they have always known that there was a place they could go for help and support at the homes of my brothers and sisters. I love you and miss you. Thank you. This video is just a little taste of the fun times we have had throughout the years. I didn't have alot of pictures to choose from so I did my best with what I have.

Helping Hands

This is President Lopez trying to bring order to all that was going on

These are some of the people we have the opportunity to work with, Elder Rivas, the area seventy, Krissia, the purchasing agent for the church in this area and Daniella Lemus, who is the head of the Employment Center.
The stacks of rice waiting to be put into 5 pounds bags

Sealing the rice into the bags

Bags ready to go

Repacking the rice into bags ready to be distributed

Lots of help

Sorting clothes and blankets

Scooping toothpaste from a 55 gallon barrel

Tying up the toothpaste

Returning Missionaries

This is a group of elders and sisters that are returning home from their missions to El Salvador and they spend two days in San Salvador before going home in classes provided by the Employment Center. Here they go through the Career Workshop and learn about opportunities in employment and education. We got to spend an hour with them talking about the Perpetual Education Fund. What a great group of young people.

After our class we got to go with them to the temple.

It was a beautiful night when we came out and we had time to take some pictures.

A Little Variety of Things

Here are some pictures of a storm that came in last week. The clouds were so dark. But we ended up not getting any rain from this storm. But some good lightening and thunder. Rich's favorite cookies. We get them from the San Martin bread store which has just all kinds of wonderful breads, pastries and pumpkin pie.

This a banana tree that is growing in the area where we park our car. It was hard to get a really good picture of it because of everything else that was growing around it but notice the long tail like thing that is attached to the bananas.

My First

This week I learned how to make corn tortillas. The recipe is not that hard, water and corn flour, but getting the right consistancy and then making the tortillas perfectly round is the trick. Lina, one of the secretaries at the institute and Norma, who takes care of the institute and everyone in it gave me my first lesson. They make perfectly round tortillas every time and always the same size. Mine turned our pretty good but not perfectly round. But they tasted really good. My assignment this week is to practice making tortillas and next week we move on to pupusas.