performances were at the Presidential Theater, just a huge auditorium, but very nice. The National Theater is very unique and old. It was built in 1911 and has recently been renovated. Photo #1 is of Lon and I taken from the parking garage. As you can tell, it was raining. It rains almost every day now that "winter is here" It was probably only in the low 80's.
Rene Hernandez is the violin player and piano player in our ward who has accompanied me several times. Photo #2 is Rene and I in the lobby of the National Theater. He and our Bishop play in the symphony. It is their jobs. They are paid by the government to be in the orchestra and perform twice every two weeks with practices the other two weeks. He took us on Wednesday the 30th. The performance started at 6:00 PM and only lasted for an hour and 15 minutes. Just short enough for Lon not to get bored.
I wish my camera could do the building justice. The theater was in a half circle. It had about 12 rows of seating right in front of the stage and then private booths all the way around the outside. You
got into each booth by a private door and there are three stories of the booths. Picture #3 is Lon sitting in our booth and #4 is our door, number 1. We felt like royalty getting into #1. It was center stage, or as Lon put it, right on the 50 yard line. The concert was honoring the Italian Embassy here so maybe they thought we were with the embassy. The seats were amazing. The guest soloist was a pianist from Italy. Wow could he ever play and we could see his hands so good. We did splurge a little on the tickets though, $1.00 a piece. You read it right, one dollar. At that price, we hope to be able to go again soon. The music was amazing and it was just a feel good night after a feel good day in the temple.
Sunday, our Bishopric decided that they wanted to get to know the North Americans in the ward better so they planned a pot luck "Break the Fast" dinner at 5:00. We had over 70 in attendance. There are a lot of Embassy people here. Picture #5 is Elder Thompson enjoying the dessert first, before he was too full to enjoy it. And #6 is just of the gym at the church. It was nice to not have to worry about listening or talking in Spanish for an evening.
President and Sister Petersen have been given the green light to return to us this week. We are so excited that they are coming home! President still uses the walker to get around but his leg is getting
stronger each day and hopefully the nerve that was pinched will heal completely over time. Sister Petersen is also using a walker because her knee is giving her problems. But walkers won't slow down these two. They have a mission to finish and they are determined to do just that.
With the rains starting, we haven't had big days at the temple except Saturday. We hope that the rains just come once a day and that we don't have the flooding that happened last year. We felt the earth move the last two Sunday afternoons. Don't think we will ever get used to that. It is a real weird feeling. But it happens so often here that the natives don't even notice unless it is real hard. We send our love to all and hope that you are well and enjoying life. We are very happy and content, loving the work and the people. May God bless you with the righteous desires of your hearts is our
prayer, Los Thompsons, Lon and Nancy, Dad and Mom, Grandma and Grandpa.
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