Pictures from Antigua 4/24/16

 Another picture of the "taxi".  Notice the guard with the gun.

 We are at the market in Antgua.  The lady with the basket on her head has a "bowl" of material to cushion the basket that she carries on her head.

More Guatemalans carrying loads on their heads.  MaKayla says it is so much easier to carry heavy loads that way.  

We had a great week at the temple.  We were busy most nights with sessions, sealings, and baptisms.  The youth are really faithful in coming and most times they have family names.  Friday, we had all the mission presidents in the Central American Area and the leaders of the area come to the temple.  We had 3 full sessions that started at 7:30 (past the regular schedule of 7:00).  So we were busy and tired when the night was over.  When Dale and I finished our session (some in English) I went into the Salon Celestial to see if the sister needed a replacement.  While I was in there, a sister was just getting ready to leave when she saw my name tag and greeted me with an abrazo.  I wondered who she was and then she told me that she was Sister Markham (MaKayla's mission president).  President Markham came over.  They said how happy they were to meet us and that McKayla was a great missionary.  They said that we would have "great, great grandkids through her."  They invited us to the testimony meeting at the mission home just before Kayla goes home in June.  So we will try to get Pres. Norman to let us off that Tues. afternoon and go with the Fillmore's to see Kayla before she heads for home.

We spent Saturday morning with the Fillmore's at an artisan market downtown. It was really a nice one and we enjoyed seeing all the fun things that they make in Guatemala.  We then had another busy day at the temple with some sessions starting on the half hour instead of waiting for the hour.  We had 31 in our session and some of the men were only half on the benches.  But it was awesome to see so many saints wanting to do the temple work.

Dale spoke in Sacrament meeting today and I played the piano for Sister Reed who has been gone for 2 weeks.  Dale did a great job talking about covenants and how keeping our covenants gives us power to withstand the evils of this world.  We just relaxed the rest of the afternoon and talked to several of our children and grandchildren.