The week in pictures

This is a bit of our week in pictures. We go for walks after our turn everyday at the temple. Sometimes we remember to take our camera along and sometimes we don't. This week, one day we took some more pictures of the temple, but this time we took pictures of the back side of the temple. On Saturday we had lunch with the Thompsons and the Roberts, other temple missionaries. Then on Sunday after our meeting at the temple for all the coordinators and the temple missionaries we went to the Smylie's home for dinner. The Smylie's are a family who are living here and work for the US Embassy. Brother Smylie is in the stake Young men's and Sister Smylie is teaching a Sunday School class in the ward. Because we don't have our own transportation, Brother Smylie picked us up in his car and brought us home after dinner. It was a very nice evening.

The Guatemala flag on a pole next to the temple.

View of the back of the temple looking from the over pass that goes over the street called Vista Hermosa, which is a very busy street next to the temple.

Some of a family who has come to do temple work. They bring everyone and someone stays with the younger kids then while the parents are doing a session then they trade turns

This little guy wants to wrestle with his older brother, but the older brother is dressed to go in to do baptisms and does not want to get dirty.

The back entrance into the temple grounds

A bus that has brought a group from a stake or ward to the temple. The bus is parked behind the temple is a small lot.

the spears of the back side of the temple

We have had a busy week at the temple again. We have helped first timers, people who have come to be sealed and all the others who have come for sessions.

 We noticed that this man was on a tall ladder painting the outside of the Medical building with a roller close to the temple.Another man would load the paint back on to the roller from above him and hand it back down to him. There is a man above him holding the ladder so the ladder does not fall and the man has a rope tied to himself and the ladder so if he falls he won't go down too far. Can you just imagine what OSHA would say to this activity. We were amazed but then again not really, because the work we have observed here is all done by hand.

The Smylie family
We were invited over for dinner with the Smylie family in their apartment. It was a fun evening.

The view of the airport from the Smylie's front room

Dinner with the Thompsons. Sister Thompson has been healing from a fall that broke her right knee cap and her left ankle two months ago. She is doing mostly better now and they wanted to celebrate so they had us and the Roberts over  for chicken from Pollo Compero, which is something like KFC. Brother Thompson does not do much cooking.