Humidity Rising

We had the great opportunity last week to attend a Mission Leadership Seminar for the North America Southwest Area in San Antonio, Texas which is about 3 1/2 hours from Houston. The first afternoon we met at the San Antonio Temple. It is very small but so beautiful! There is a lot of stained glass throughout the temple, and the temple president told us a story of how during excavation they uncovered a small cavern. The missionary that was the site manager climbed down in and found a few big stones and he brought them up. It turned out that they were Agate and they were cut and used in the stained glass. There was enough that they used the rest in the temple in Rome. After the session we met outside for a group photo. Many of the mission presidents and area seventy already knew each other, but we were just happy to be there! This is a view from the San Antonio Marriott Riverwalk where we stayed. We have always heard how charming San Antonio is, and it was fun to finally...

John loves this sign at a nearby restaurant. He is so happy to have a major league baseball team to cheer for - and one that is in the World Series no less!  He is also happy to find some delicious cajun food again - here he has half a shrimp po-boy and a bowl of spicy gumbo!  Here he is hard at work so he can enjoy all of that good food! We usually go for an early morning walk to start the day. This is in front of our apartment complex.  This last week was interesting because our car was in the shop Monday - Friday. We decided not to get a rental car because we have everything we need within a few blocks of us! We got a ride to zone conference on Monday and to dinner that night with the other senior missionaries, but other than that we walked. It was very nice! This morning there was a touch of fog on the river and we always see this beautiful white crane on our morning walks!  This is the Ben's Branch of the San Jacinto river....

 The weather cooled down dramatically over the weekend. The humidity makes things feel a little colder than the temperature so we had to bundle up a bit! We had a fun experience this week. On Thursday we had the thought to drop by the mission office. We weren't sure why, but it seemed like a good idea. There wasn't much going on but John started talking to the Senior Elder in charge of cars, Elder Cluff about a good auto body place to our car repaired. (we had someone hit and run while we were parked - not too bad but no fun) While they were talking, Sister Cluff, the mission secretary asked me if I speak enough Spanish to be able to make a phone call for her. She had been trying to reach the relief society president for the Spanish ward that was providing lunch for the upcoming zone conference to tell her that the date had been moved up a week. When she finally reached her she found that the relief society president didn't speak any English. I was nervous about calling,...