It Only Took Three Months!

Just had to let you know that we are finally legal!! We have our new visa's, only they are really residency cards. So we don't have to pay to get into the national parks and museums now. But since we have already seen them----. It does feel good though. The only draw back is that they are only good til February 7th, 2013 so we will have to do this again for the last 6 months of our mission.  Picture #1  We have not had hot water for a week today. It has been real fun heating water to do dishes and the showers are really hard to do. The water just gets colder and colder the longer you run it. I was afraid we were being wimps about the hot water, but Sister Alas complained one day to me. She and her husband are natives and the second counsellors in the temple presidency. She said that President Alas usually spends 40 minutes in the showers, but is ready in ten minutes now. I told her that I thought most of the El Salvadorians didn't have hot water in their homes. She said that was right. But their water comes out of the tap luke warm and doesn't get colder the longer it runs. So we are not the wimps that I thought we were. But if they don't get it fixed soon, you can just call us Papa and Mama Smurf!!! A nice shade of cold blue!!  I had a lesson on how to make Pupusas. I need a lot more practice as the cheese and beans in mine seem to escape instead of staying in the Pupusa. I will keep practicing so you can all try one when we get home.  Picture #2.   It really feels good to have the Temple open again. It is great to be with the people from all over El Salvador, not just our ward family. We are looking forward to General Conference Weekend and being taught by our Prophet. We send our love to all and hope you are enjoying your hot showers. With Love, Papa and Mama Smurf.