Monday day off Chicken was on the menu. And music. The Temple President loves to be creative and share his talents with others. To his home he invited the four women who work the Temple office. They prepared three different chicken dishes for themselves and the Holmans, who help in the office in the evenings. The Jensons were invited to the lunch.  Horchata is a favorite Guatemalan drink and was on the table. Babette and I are not fans. The ingredients are listed on the label pictured above.  Herman Morales, pictured below, is a talented guitar player and singer. He knew his shift coordinator at the Temple played the saxophone. He inquired and discovered that most of the full-time Temple workers had talent as well. So he organized a family home evening at his home across the city. It started slowly but eventually got into high gear. Most songs sung were Guatemalan, but they allowed us North Americans to suggest songs. We were surprised to discover that the Sixties songs we su...

Monday excursion Two restaurants! And artisan shopping. In Antigua and Mixco.  Making table runners (cheaply) (From the blog of Temple President John Norman) Beautiful Senahu I was so taken by the verdant setting of this  town of indigenous people that  I had to try doing a watercolor painting of it. We visited Senahu a week ago Saturday.  This is the photo I used as my guide...

Volcano update Fuego still churning and spewing... Now, TOOTH NEWS Figs! Fellow temple missionaries, the Fajardos, cooked 12 figs and gave them to us to eat. I ate one whole, but had to do  something with them before I ate another.  These were the first figs I’d ever eaten.  I mashed them up with a little strawberry jam and plain yogurt. They were then so good that I ate all the other 11.  My youngest brother, Neal, turned 60 on June 8.  I watercolored likenesses of him, from photos, at  ages 22 and 56. He liked them. I didn’t like them all that much. I wish I could make them look more professional, like the following portraits by my  watercolor teacher Jill Smith. 

Thanks to the Flohrs for taking us to Kaminaljuyu.  We attended the first anniversary celebration of the Senahú Stake.  Apostle Dale G. Renlund organized it, the first stake in the Church in the K’ekchi language. The trip to Senahú was tiring. I spent my Monday off sleeping.