Teaching Young Women, Dance Festival, Great Volunteers, Local Wedding Party, Saying Good-bye to the Clarkes

I don't make it to all the activities but recently I had the girls over to our apartment for Pizza, Pop, and Personal Progress.  I taught them how to make lemon cake and 3 different kinds of frosting.  They had the assignment to make cake for the mother's day activity.They had a lot of fun.

This is a dance festival practice.  We took our microwave and made popcorn for them.They are very lucky to have a great choreographer to help them.

Our days have been very busy which makes the time pass quickly. 

Our sweet Young Women's President is always trying to give me an opportunity to speak Spanish

She asked me to give the lesson last week. 

MAJOR TRAUMA! 

However, I managed to survive the week and the lesson.   Paul drilled me on where the accents went so the girls could understand me.

  We had a very full week, busy every minute of the day, actually for the last two weeks.  We had a wonderful couple from Virginia here, the Murphys, who were great fun for Paul and I to visit with.  Some friends of the Toblers, Connie and Roger Gartz came to help us out for a couple of weeks before joining our good friends Norma and Richard Smith, Char and Mike Ford and Craig and Patsy Smith on an Ayuda Dental Trip to Peru.

We also had a wonderful wedding to go to for one of our special dental students that worked in our clinic last year.  Alicia.

Alicia showing us how to put on a native costume

Alicia Lees Guzman and Jose Rodolfo

Dr. Guzman and Elizabeth Lees Guzman, the Proud Parents and Pastor who performed the ceremony.  Elizabeth is Canadian so English is Alicia's first language.

The Poulsons

This week we have had Dr. Poulson and his daughters Madeline and Lexie  helping out in the clinic.  They were fantastic volunteers and were very independent right from the start.  They rarely needed  help with anything and the girls learned the computer system in a day. Friday morning we worked in  the  clinic and Paul did clinic errands all afternoon while I did laundry and made bread.  Saturday we had a great baptism.  I played the piano and Sister Giron played the violin.  It was fun to have her play with me during the interlude.  She is the young woman who was the spanish teacher for the senior missionaries.  She was instrumental in getting the young man that was baptized to invite the missionaries to teach him.  He was a guard at the temple that Paul and I saw and visited with whenever we went to the temple.    After the baptism, we had stake temple night and Dic Johnson and Tony Bentley picked us up and we went to I Hop for dinner afterwards--not very good food.    So that is our not very exciting and fairly normal schedule for the last two weeks.  Paul is still at a missionary training meeting with a young man from our ward.  I stayed home and made desserts for our Family Home Evening Farewell Dinner for President and Sister Clarke.

We are saying goodbye to President and Sister Clarke 

   They are leaving in a couple of weeks after being here for 5 years.  We will miss them.  He was called to the 1st Quorum of  Seventy so they are headed back to Salt Lake City. Friday before our Senior Missionary Zone Conference we had a farewell luncheon for Sister Clarke for the ladies.  Sister Jenny Martino hosted it and, of course, it was beautiful.

We now have 9 missionary couples from Mesa, Arizona counting The Masks.