B and J's big adventure: It has been a Fiesta at the temple this week.

It has been a Fiesta at the temple this week.

We have had a very busy week.

There was a group of people from Polochic

who left their homes about five o'clock and it took about 12 hours to get here

These people live in the mountains and it is away from anything.

They stayed in temple housing or other places.

Some of them only speak Quek che, and some can speak Spanish also.

It was very interesting trying to communicate with those who only speak Quek che.

One man came in a nice white shirt and pants. When I asked what size shoe he needed I looked and he didn't have any shoes on. He didn't speak Spanish, so another man looked at his feet, put his foot close and told me what size shoe to get for him. He left a happy man, still without shoes to wear. He was sealed to his wife.

All four sessions rooms were going and we had people lined up waiting for a session room to open so they could go on a session.

I was in the Celestial Room when a session finished.

A woman came in.

She was crying. Not just a little, but a lot.

I thought I would give her a tissue, but decided to wait with the tissue.

As she left the Celestial Room, she told me in Spanish that she had to go, but she did not want to leave. She wanted to stay at the temple and keep doing temple work.

On the same session, another lady came in. When she left she gave me a great big abraso (hug).

Her head was up to my neck.

She was telling me something in Quek che, but I could not understand a word she said. Whatever it was that she was telling me, it brought tears to my eyes.

We had 100 youth here for baptisms on Friday.

On Saturday I was taking care of the baptisms.

The mezzanine was standing room only. At one point the baptistry coordinator called me and asked me how many jovens were waiting to be baptised. I told him, un monton de jovenes (a mountain of youth)

Some of the youth came at 6:30 in the morning, but didn't come in because there were so many coming in. They started coming in at 8:00. We finally got the last of the groups of young men and women to the baptistry in the early afternoon.

There were also people waiting to witness sealings.

We had people come for their first time to the temple. There were somewhere around 30.

Some were for sealings for themselves and others were there for sealings of families, while others were there in preparation for their missions.

A wedding party by the front door of the temple

This little girl posed for us

Brother Fuentes and his family. They adopted both girls. One is leaving for her mission this next week. Sister Fuentes teaches English and Spanish at a school here and he is an Electrical Engineer.