Yard work, Break the Fast and the Temple Devotional

Our view into the back yard from our front room. There are potted plants here and there.

 The story of our back yard is coming.

the hole in the wall between us and President and Sister Burk

the stairs as they will look when done. The tarp is to keep the rain off the new cement

On Sunday, November 10 we went to a Temple Devotional at the Montufar Stake Center. President and Sister Burk spoke. Also President Harris and President Galvez. All the temple workers, temple missionaries, and temple employees were invited with their spouses who had temple recommends. We enjoyed seeing other workers and meeting some of their families at this Devotional.

What a cute little girl. She was smiling at grandpa (Blair). We had to take her picture.

The Padilla family. (Sister Burk is in the back).

We love this couple, the Padillas. They are the greatest!

Last Sunday was break the fast. That is where all the North Americans get together on Fast Sunday and eat in the evening after all meetings of the day are over, usually on fast Sunday. We are assigned a main course, dessert or salad. Some of the people are working at the Embassy and others are working at the District office or the church in one capacity or another, and the temple missionaries. The break the fast is always held at the area office.

We find a place to eat, sing a song and a prayer is given then.....

Do you think we're all hungry?

And visit while in line

The couple at the back, Aponte, are here for six months for the church to teach "Marriage and Family Relations" (I think that is what it is called.) They are from Kentucky, but they are both originally from Puerto Rico. They have 12 children, but 8 are with them.

Sister Seale in red

ummm! the food is good

There isn't much left for seconds

but there is the desert table. Two young men are there for seconds. One of the Barney boys and one of the Aponte boys.

This was our back yard when we moved in.

One day we got home from our shift at the temple and the men were making a hole in the wall just opposite our bedroom glass doors. The head engineer knocked on our door to tell us that they were making a gate into the back yard of the Distribution Center. At the Distribution Center in the waiting area there is a back door where people can go into the back yard. Most of the time it is used by people who leave their families to play or watch videos or eat something while they go on a session or do sealings or other temple work. The Distribution Center is just across the street from the temple. In the space where the man with the red hat is, there is a door where they keep all the garden tools like a lawn mower, weed eater, etc. There are no side yards on the building that houses the four casitas. Now the yard men go through the empty casita next to us with the lawn mower to mow and trip the back yard. When someone moves into that casita they would go through our casita or their casita with a lawn mower and yard tools. Not desirably. 

The men are getting ready to mix cement for the steps

the path he is mixing cement on will go to the hole in the wall between us and President Burks back yard. That is so they can get to his back yard also. President and Sister Burk do have a side yard, but because the tools are in the closet that is in the Distribution Centers yard, they are making a shorter path to do the Presidents yard also. 

The metal in the open wall serves as the closure until they get a gate up and as a pad to mix cement on.