Our biggest news this week is from back home and another example of how the Lord is blessing our family as we serve our mission here in Mexico.
Last Wednesday our daughter, Celeste, was on her way from West Valley City, Utah to go up north to Logan in her husband's truck to move her sister, Brin, home from USU. Near Clearfield she hit ice on the freeway and lost control of the truck. She went across the median, across the southbound lanes of traffic, missed hitting any other cars and rolled down the hill on the other side. She totaled her husband truck but walked away with only some minor scraps, a bruised left shoulder and neck and suffered some whiplash. It could have been so much worse. We are so grateful to the Lord for His watchful care.
Monday's FHE evening was at the Spencer's. We talked about sharing the message of the gospel to those we come in contact with. They related some experiences they had as they had been gone for a couple of weeks during the middle of November, visiting throughout the northern part of Mexico as part of his assignment as the area mission doctor. They are a great example of showing love and compassion to those around us. We really appreciate getting to know these couples and will truly miss them when it's time for them to leave. The Oliver's will be leaving the end of January, the Shaklee's will be leaving in March, and the Spencer's are due to leave in June. There are two couples expected to come about the same time, one to replace the Oliver's and another for something else, I think having to do with welfare services. The Shaklee's are not being replaced. It has been decided to move the PEF (Perpetual Education Fund) offices to Mexico City. This was sad news because Brother Aguilar, who was a church employee over the PEF here in Monterrey, was told this week that he no longer has a job. A real shock for him. We saw him in the temple on Friday and talked for a minute. He said he would be looking for a new job after the first of the year. He serves as the stake president of his stake and I'm sure he will be blessed for his service and will find something.
On Wednesday I started coming down with a head cold. We went in to the temple to do a session and I was sniffling with a runny nose through the whole session. I decided to stay home from our shift at the temple that afternoon to try and get over it and not expose everyone to my cold. Lynn went in without me. There has been a lot of illness going around. Sis. Tenorio was really sick a couple of weeks ago and several of the temple workers have been absent from the temple, including three of the sister coordinators, Sis. Bravo on Thursday, Sis. Zavala on Friday and Sis. Villegas on Saturday. It's really hard when the sister coordinators are missing because then the temple matron or one of her assistants, whoever is on shift, have to fill in besides doing their regular duties.
Last night was the stake Christmas program that Lynn and I have been going to practices for the last few weeks. It was actually a play performed by the youth and we were just in a choir that was part of the play. I didn't really get what was going on because it was all in Spanish. Not even the other English speakers (the Shaklee's or Spencer's or Lynn) understood either. Sis. Pratt was the director and said that it was originally written in English and President Cantu translated it into Spanish. She said she would get me a copy of the English version so I could read it. It was evidently really funny because everyone was laughing and the kids enjoyed doing it.
This will be the last week the temple will be open for 2009. It doesn't open again until January 5th, 2010. Next Tuesday we will be having a special devotional/dinner for all the temple workers. President Tenorio had asked me a couple of months ago to sing a musical number for it. Hopefully, this head cold that I came down with will be gone by then. Lynn won't be able to attend because he will still be recuperating from his hernia surgery that he is scheduled to have the day before.
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