BFF

Gary has parasites again!!  His Best Friends Forever!!  Well, he is a bit miserable.  So he decided to try to make the relationship with his parasites a little more symbiotic and not so one sided.  He knows morse code, so he tapped this message on his tummy:   ....  .  .-..  .-..  ---    Which interpret means:  HELLO.   No response, just another burp.  So, back to the sample test.   He prepared a nice sample in a little plastic bag.   He put it on the table while we got ready to go to the lab.  We decided we had a real bad case of parasites when the bag begin to move across the table.

Every morning a small heard of goats come by our house.  In fact right in front of our house.  And, every morning we have droppings just in front of our door.  Well, at this same time we noticed that other people on our road sweep the trash up from in front of their houses every morning.  We don't.  So, we begin to sweep up the front of our house so that it was really clean.   One morning we noticed no goat droppings.  No one lives on either side of our house, and, the droppings were one one side and the other but in front of our house.  Do you really think the goats know about a clean sidewalk??

We might have mentioned the friends we have made.  Cisely and Miguel.   Cisely helps us with our Spanish several days a week.  They are really wonderful people.  They travel by bus every week, a three hour drive, to work in the temple, and, they are always helping somebody.  One day we came to our Spanish session and Cisely was a little out of breath.  We asked was she ok.  And, she told us that her end her two daughters we doing service.   There is a store not too far from her house.  And, the ladies, usually with little kids and a baby on their back, are carrying heavy bags of groceries to their homes.  (Not many people have cars).   Well, her and her daughters went out on the road and helped these moms carry their groceries to their homes.

We have made some friends in the market place.   Elena, a hair dresser that did our hair for us.  Jessica, a lady that runs a "used clothes" store, and Yuri, the lady we might have mentioned that lost her six year old daughter a few weeks ago.   Well, we have all three reading the Book of Mormon!

We have mentioned before that one of the reasons we came to the mountains was to make it possible to have sister missionaries here.  We have four.   There have not been sister missionaries here for some time because they got into trouble without someone looking after them.   Well our sister missionaries have been here for two months and one pair,  sister Lopez and sister Beckstrand, baptized two people this last Saturday, and, the other pair, sister Nielsen and sister Terry will baptize two people this coming Saturday!!   We have to say again, sister missionaries are amazing.

Here is a picture of sisters Lopez and Beckstrand