Expo SUD

On Friday we were invited to go with President and Sister Burk to an Expo Fair at the Montufur building, which is one of the Stake Centers here in Guatemala City. It is the first Stake center and was also the first ward building here in Guatemala City. It is a very nice well kept building. Every year about 100 church members come to sell their wares and display their businesses and let others know they are here. SUD stands for "Santos de los Ultimos Dias", which translated stands for "Saints of the latter days". We met so many people there who we now know because they either work at the temple with us or they come quite often, so it was fun to see them and talk to them.

This lady owns a restaurant where her specialty is crepes fixed different ways. We saw her after we had already purchased food from another restaurant owner.

This young man was so excited about getting the scuffs off my shoes. It was fun to watch him work.

There was a play ground set up for children. This little guy is a future BB player. 

Adults where there to make sure the kids were okay

You have heard of the helping hands, well here is a vest that identifies us. This is one of the ushers that helped direct visitors into the fair.

All the people in the food court area. Those balloons were done so they looked like tomatoes.

This is the group we went with. Roberts (she has a pink blouse on) President and Sister Burk (Sister Burk has a dark jacket on) Pitchers (both in white tops) and of course us. I am taking a picture of us. At the foot of the chair are some of the packages of some things we purchased from the booths.

As we were leaving the temple to go to the fair there was a family outside waiting for the rest of the family who were doing temple work. These three children were so cute that we had to take their pictures.

Some families have deep roots and some families have shallow roots, just like some trees have deep roots and other trees have shallow roots. Are our roots deep or shallow. Do we make our roots deep by doing our family history so we can tie everyone together or do we just let them wonder around on the ground.

This women is making a swath of fabric. You can see in the back ground all the fabric she has made. It is very fascinating to watch fabric being made by these ladies.