Monday, June 3, 2013

          This day of R&R did not turn out as planned, but ended up being great.  We walked, did laundry, and prepared to take a taxi to do our grocery shopping.  Glade took a short rest while I finished getting ready, and then got up super dizzy and nauseous.  He figured it was an inner ear issue, took Musinex-D, rested for a couple of hours, and then slowly recovered.

          In the mean time, I went back to studying Spanish and had a great session.   This was all accompanied by a “Fourth of July fireworks” style thunderstorm that was amazing!  I worried about the Angel Moroni on the temple because it is up so high and stands all by itself.  The thunder broke and cracked all around us and we opened our great big windows so we could hear it and listen to the rain. 

          There is a small convenience-type store next to the bakery, so later in the day we decided to walk down there to see if they had any apples or other fruit.  When we first went outside, the thunder and lightning had ended; but it was pouring rain.  I talked Glade into waiting a little.  About 45 minutes later we tried again.  It was still raining, but not so hard; so we grabbed our umbrellas and went for it.  It felt great outside and turned out to be fun.  I wanted to take pictures, but they wouldn’t have been any good. 

          We had a getting-to-know you Home Evening tonight.  Fun and games aren’t often my style, but I jumped in to be a good sport and it went okay.  It is a great group of people with so much diversity! 

          It’s back to the early shift tomorrow.  We have to be at the temple by 6:00 a.m. so we are starting the end of day routine.  Hope you all had a great Home Evening!