December 31, 2017

We wanted to share with you a message our bishop shared today.  It was about plans and goals for the new year.  He encouraged each of us to list those things most important to us and then to prioritize them and choose goals accordingly.  Then the most important thing he said was when he quoted Elder Ashton, which went something like this:  we often use as a reason for not doing the things that should have a high priority in our lives that we just didn't have time to do them.  If we simply substituted the phrase, it wasn't a priority in my day, week, year, we would probably find the real reason for not doing these things.  It's the reason we sometimes fail to make real progress in our life...we fail to do those each day that should be priorities.  It's easy to say (justify) I didn't have time, rather than admit the real reason, it wasn't a priority.  It's self-indicting, but probably honest.  We encourage each of us to take an honest personal inventory of those things in our lives that need to be changed, strengthened, overcome, and accomplished and strive for real personal progress in the coming year.  We love you,
Mom and Dad, Non and Pop

December 19, 2017

We had an awesome class tonight with these ladies.  Everyone brought something to share from the things we've taught them.  We had monkey bread, peanut butter cookies, empanadas, banana bread, kettle corn, and Mormon bran muffins!!!  This was a payday night.  We just love these sisters.
These sisters were from our very first class after moving to Cuernavaca and our most enthusiastic.  I truly do just love them.

December 19, 2017

This little guy is Asdrubal, the brave young boy who stood up to the robbers a few weeks ago when the bandit had his gun on the back of his dad's head while robbing them in the restaurant.

December 13, 2017

So here's our Christmas decorations...a little puny but better than nada!  Do you like our purple patio?

December 10, 2017

Here's some local mentality.

#1 We went to Walmart in Acapulco and found what I needed to buy.  The price was 50 pesos each or 2 for 40 pesos.

#2  Dad wanted to buy something that cost 2 for 5 pesos or 3 for 10 pesos.  And when he asked to buy 2 for 5 twice she told him no.  So he said, well how about if I buy 1 of the 3 for 10 and she wouldn't sell it to him because she wanted to get rid of her rotten fruit.

December 10, 2017

These are my newest experiment...copycat Costco chocolate muffin.  Not bad!  I need to find about 6 new recipes.

December 6, 2017

We're home for the night finally and off to Acapulco manana until Saturday night.  We are so busy.  Everyone knows now that we're leaving in February so we are almost booked until the 17th of February.  I think we would like to sleep for about a week.

December 7, 2017

It's good to be busy and we're having fun teaching fun things.  BUT i'm tired!  We have the week after Christmas with no classes, which will help.  On our way to Acapulco.

December 3, 2017

So dad and I taught the ladies in our ward how to make kettle corn.  Today one of the sisters taught our lesson on the Christmas initiative to Light the World by serving others and gave each of us a little container full of kettle corn.  We thought that was pretty cool.

The city of Cuernavaca arranged for someone to make a tubing run and ice skating rink in our central plaza.  It was free to those who decided to wait in line.