CHURCH

Today we went to Church here in San Pedro. In order to get there we had to catch the boat at 8:00 Am for the 20 minute boat ride...not quite 20 minutes....Anyways we get to town at least an hour before church is to start and everything in town is quiet.

The church is renting a few rooms on the 3rd story of a building on the main street of town. They have a branch here and there were 50 members in attendance not including visitors or the missionaries. Of that number there were 6 Priesthood holders of which 2 were missionaries, One was a visiting District President and then the Branch Presidency.

Church was to be 2 hrs long....My kind of church. It seems that they fore go Sunday school and just have sacrament and Priesthood/relief Society.

Some of the things done are not quite the way we do them and its hard not to correct them. They are trying. For Blessing and passinf the sacrament. One of the full time missionaries takes care of breaking the bread and blessing the sacrament. 2 members then pass the sacrament (one being a visitor and the other a member of the branch)

The other missionary is in the back of the room and translates the meeting into spanish for thos who are non English speaking.They have those hearing aids like Ross Peck uses. So the missionary talks into a mike and what he says comes out in the hearing aids. It looks like it works well.

Its evident that the church is young and stuggling. The members have their work cut out for themselves.

Church hours 9:30 to 11:30

It was interesting that they had the hymns to be sung on a board like we have, but only they had 2 sets of page numbers side by side. I couldn't figure out why. At the top above the page numbers they had E S .hmmmmmm. What does that stand for Sacrament...No How about English and spanish...They have 2 sets of hymn books one in English and One in Spanish....Lisette figured that one out....She was laughing at me...I had to also.

Food...

I'll get a food blog together but I just finished this and I'm at reception getting eaten by some little tiny black bugs...Hi Lily

Beautiful Day

By the way, after this mornings rain it turned into a beautiful day. Spent the afternoon at the pool with some hilarious drinkers...I wonder why they always hit on Toyke. They guy said something about Toyke's beautiful blue eyes, his sexy butt, another guy did some nipple thing to him and the girl that drank the most was really snuggling up to him trying to figure out his name....I think she'll remember Frank.
Anyway, it was a great day!

This one is for you Anna!!!

Well, what do you know...there is a 7/11 here in San Pedro!!!

It's across the street from the north end of the airport. I didn't get to go in to see if they have Slurpies because I was on a hunt for Honey Bunches of Oats and I found them across the street and had to rush back to the dock as it was time for the boat to leave. (That was our big find today, cereal and 2% milk!) (Also, couldn't find the blind guy selling tortillas - apparently he doesn't work Saturdays.) Now, where was I again...oh yes. So back at the docks, Manuel, the boat captain (really just the driver guy) let us know that yeah, it's a 7/11 but not a real one. Some arab guys own it and I think they brought the sign with them! Rats, no Slurpie again!

Schools In San Pedro

How H1N1 is spread...

This is the "well" where we get out water.
When you first arrive you have 1 gallon jug in your fridge and after that you must go to the well to get drinking water. The water in the condo is not drinkable.
This is fine, I don't mind at all. We keep a pitcher, water bottle and the gallon jug full so that we always have cold water to drink.
So..back to the H1N1. See the cup... of course I thought that someone had just left their garbage there, slob...put your own cup in the garbage. Nope. The next day I happened to see a guy on a bike ride up to the well, turn on the tap and then yup, reach for the cup. Took a nice long drink of water and then dropped the cup back into the well. Hum...

PARADISE

It started out with rain early this morning....so we did some bloging. Then the sun came out....clouds moved out of the way letting us enjoys the sun. So we went Kyaking North up the coast a mile or so. We didn't bring our camera for fear that it might get wet and be endered useless. It was beautiful water changing colors from deep blue to a torquois color....and all different colors of fish. We have no idea what kind of fish as we are not fishers. We couldn't even tell you what fish is what when it is placed on a plate in front of us. Pretty bad. When we came in from Kyaking we got our books and went out to the pool area. All of the sudden it started getting dark and then the wind and presto Rain.....by the buckets......So what do you do when it rains???? get in the hot tub, so thats what we did.

he hot tub water level went up a few inches in a matter of minutes

So now we are in our room reading books again