Sunday, January 12, 2014

          Since the cleaning crew is coming tomorrow, we took our Christmas tree downstairs to our storage area.  It fit into the space just great and still left us plenty of space.  Glade carried it, decorations and all, right onto the elevator, through the doors and into the big closet.  It was the fastest Christmas “take-down” ever and it was great.  It did leave a big empty space in our living room, but there is a large artificial tree here that just filled it right up.

          We strolled around the temple grounds tonight as we often do on Sunday evenings and enjoyed the peace and tranquility.  It’s a great time to assess how we are doing and make plans for enjoying and improving our time here.  There is life after raising a family and some days I’m still trying to figure out exactly what that includes. 

There were a few other couples meandering as well and we met a Latin couple from Kentucky who are serving in Guatemala for six months as missionaries teaching marriage and family relations.  They were here in Tegucigalpa to speak at a fireside.  They looked really young, but they have twelve children and brought nine of them with them to Central America.  There is another aspect of missionary service we were not aware of.  Maybe our next mission will be for six months!  J --and in English!