Our Next to the Last Week

I thought that I would share with you the busy week that we have just completed. On Monday after working at the office, we hosted our entire zone of more than twenty elders and sisters in a BBQ at our house. President and Sister Zapata and Doctor Ortiz and his family came too. We purchased a box of sixty hamburgers and not a single one remained. We love our missionaries, the Ortizs and the Zapatas so much. We are so blessed to be able to know them.

Tuesday we made an hour a half trip with two of the missionaries that are replacing us to Cuautla to show them the ropes down there. While there we had the chance to say goodbye (since this will be our last trip to Cuautla) to a few of our beloved missionaries.

Wednesday we took two families to the Mexico City Temple to do baptisms for the dead. This will be a beginning for both of them which will lead to their being sealed together as an eternal family in a year after the baptisms of the sisters. It was a very special and wonderful experience to share with them. I have no doubt they will return at the end of their year.

Thursday after work we went to Hermana Arenas house to have a delightful meal, this in preparation for my wife’s final visit to the dentist (Hermana Arenas is a dentist and very dear friend). After that we went to Chrise’s final piano class. My wife has taught and graduated many students in our time here. This was her last class and I think her best one. We felt so much love and gratitude from the students and their parents.

Friday, which is our day of rest, we went shopping in Amecameca. We found just about everything we were looking for and then had a splendid dinner at the Castle of the Deer (we didn’t eat venison).

Yesterday after work, we went to another wonderful dinner at Hermana Arenas’s house. After which we went to and equally wonderful baptism service. Elena, Hermana Areana’s daughter, had asked me to baptize her. We ended by going to Sara’s house in Ayapango. They were just about the first people that we taught when we arrived here in Mexico. Though they have yet to accept the Gospel, I have faith that they will. They are very dear friends and they invited us over to the birthday celebration of their granddaughter.

Perhaps you can see now why my wife and I feel so blessed here on our mission in Mexico. Check my wife's Facebook page for pictures.