Our week went so fast. Probably because on the PM shift we take advantage and sleep in so we don't get much done. But last Monday we went to dinner with the Colina's to celeberate Bro. Colina's birthday. They are both temple workers and fun to be around. Bro Colina just turned 78 and she is my age.
He is from Venezuela and she from El Salvador and they met in Virginia and were married and joined the church there. When he retired, they moved to El Salvador because it was cheaper to live here. Now they are thinking of moving back to Virginia because it is so expensive to live here. We went to the "Las Brumas" restaurant which is up the mountain on the way to "Vocaron" the volcano that we visited. The view of the city was amazing.
This is looking down on the city and the temple is right above the tree line in the center. Look for the big red apartment building and come towards the trees and you can find the temple. It would take two more pictures, one on each side to see the whole city. The ocean is in the right top of the picture. The restaurant is on 14 acres with all kinds of fruit trees and gardens. The flowers were amazing. So many new ones that we have never seen before.
We walked around and discovered chickens, two very sassy turkeys who thought they owned the place and Matilda. The guards told us about Matilda, the pet cow.
They said how friendly she was, even would nuzzle people for their food. They took us to find her. She was not in the best of moods, however, or she didn't like the idea that I didn't have any food. She let me pet her, licked my hand then lowered her head and started to come at me to give me a good push. The guard stepped in real quick. It reminded me of the mother cows who were protecting their young and we were afraid to go near them. We had the place all to ourselves. They say that on the weekends the place is packed. It was fun for these two farm kids to be out of the city around the animals.
We got to babysit for the Kitleys on Friday. Bro and Sis Kitleys son and family were here for a week. They have a 2 year old and 7 year old little girls. On Friday morning, the adults went to the temple to seal Sister Kitley to her father and mother and we were the only ones not in the temple working so we kept the girls. What fun. They definately got a lot of attention from all of these grandma's and grandpa's here.
We have had a lot of new workers at the temple so the teaching goes on. It is so fun to watch someone suddenly realize that they know the ordinance and can do it without help. We are trying so hard to learn everyone's name. They all know ours, of course we wear name tags all the time, and they don't. But it really thrills a patron when we can call them by name. Some of them are only in the temple once a month but we are really trying hard to remember. I had a young girl come up to me to see if I remembered her. She was a temple worker when the temple first opened but I had not seen her for about two months. I found out that she had just finished chemo for Breast Cancer. It was good to be able to reassure her that there is " life after cancer."
We have felt a few "temblados" earthquakes this past week. The people here don't even notice them because they are so common. One woke me up in the night with the windows rattling and the bed moving. Lon just slept through it. We are still a couple without a country as we have no passports or visa yet. Hopefully before the end of the month but no one knows for sure how long it may be. I've rambled long enough. We are enjoying our work in the temple, love these special people who make us feel so loved and needed, and we feel your love and prayers in our lives. We send our love. Have a great week and we will write again soon. Love you all Elder and Sister Thompson (doesn't that look official) Lon and Nancy
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