You Have Been Found (hopefully)

Well last week my LDSMail email account decided to erase all my email addresses. For the first time since we arrived, I really felt alone and far from home. I never thought I would enjoy email so much. It has taken a week, but I think we have you back. We'll see how many addresses don't go through. Last week was San Salvador's independence day and instead of going to the mountains or the beach, the people came to the temple. We were so busy. It was exhausting and wonderful. We had a couple of rain storms that were unreal. The thunder and lightning were frightening and the rain wow. I left the temple, had about 30 yards to our apartment and arrived soaked. My hair was dry cause I had my umberella though. We are on the same time as Idaho right now. We will not change with day light savings though. We have found the sweetest bananas. They are about 6" long and green. If you wait for them to turn yellow, they are too ripe. The local oranges are green and the lemons are green. We took our first walk outside our gated community. A few of us walked to the Multi Plaza while the others rode in the Presidents van. We won't all fit in the van at one time. The Multi Plaza is three stories with parking below that. We have a huge Sears, Payless Shoes, Hallmark, Radio Shack and more shoe stores than I have ever seen in one place. There are some cute stores that carry only local items. We had lunch at Tony Ramas. We can walk from there, over the street on a walk way to the Walmart plaza. Now we don't have to rely on a member or a taxi to get us to the store. The President brings all the packages home in the van and we walk so we can all go shopping at the same time. It is amazing how long it takes to get a home stocked with food so you don't have to shop every week. We are finding almost everything we need, sometimes in a little different way. No cool whip-have to whip my own; no ranch dressing so we have given up on it; the milk in the gallon goes bad before we can drink all of it so we have found their milk in cartons that don't need refrigerated, like soy milk, only real milk. It is real good milk. We went to our first baptism in our ward. I learned how to make pupuses! Sister Majano, the first counseler's wife, taught us for home evening. They are not made like I had expected. They are good, only mine will be made with hamburger instead of sausage, and different cheeses. We still think Arapa's are better. The tortilla's here are not thin, they are about 4" round and 1/2" thick. And you have to be careful when you order quesadeas. They are a sweet bread that looks like corn bread and can have corn, nuts, raisins,and you don't know what else in them. Back to email addresses, I have a couple that I have wrong, If any of you can help me find the correct address please send them to me. Dennis and Diana Petersen, John Maybe you have this one? Gene Van Wagner, Charlotte could you try to call him?, Cecilia Worthington, Jerome people? Thank you. I have attached a couple of pictures, Mindi didn't believe that her dad can do laundry so the first is lon doing the laundry, then a picture of a pickup with school kids heading home from school, President Petersen with a woman who is 100 years old, notice where the door knob is, a pupusa, our front room and our trip out of our secure little world. I hope you all are well and happy. We sure are. We have the am shift this week so we have to be to the temple by 6:00. We send our love to all. Lon and Nancy