Can you first week be routine?

We have been here only 7 days, I feel like I have learned a lot and done enough for it to have been longer. We have been well and good in our apartment so far.  We have a TV but didn't try it out until Wednesday, we get a few channels in English, mostly news but we get some ESPN too.  BYU international is usually on but sometimes they have Provo and English.  We should get conference real time on BYU.  On Thursday our cable quit working, maybe related to our bill being due, we will see what happens with that, it is no great loss but we will need some movie DVD's.

Food stores have pretty much anything we are used too, we haven't tried a restaurant yet but they are reported to be good.  This is Cindy with our dinner on Thursday:





Red beans and rice with lots of fruit.  We are going to try and eat better (especially me) and see if we can walk ourselves into better shape. We have great pineapples and mangoes, the watermelon looked good but the taste didn't match. 

I have the job of screening the medical aspects of missionary applications from the Caribbean Area.  I have many from the DR and Haiti, but sometimes I have to look at the map for St. Kitts or Guadaloupe. This picture show Cindy helping me screen the applications yesterday afternoon. 

We have been tired and generally have slept well at night.  We are very secure in the Temple compound. 

We have taken morning walks in different directions from the Temple, we have been along the south edge of the island to the Caribbean Sea,  We have been back to the grocery store  on foot, it was a hot walk back with our loads.

Our spanish studies continue, we have a long way to go.  I would like to speak better so the missionaries can tell me their problems better.  I usually have a translator but not always, These Hermanas from Guatemala had very little English and no one was around to translate, so we used the dictionary and worked our way through the history.

Sr Garcia and Sr. Velasquez with Hermana Shaver

The Temple grounds are beautiful, neatly trimmed and very green now with the frequent rains.  We like to walk around the grounds.  Soon we will start working in the Temple, we will have two shifts a week.  One will be all Spanish and the second will be on Thursday morning when the Elders attend the Temple, so we will help with the English speakers. 



The door to the Temple and adjacent stained glass our very beautiful.

All in all we are off to an exciting start, glad to be working and learning what we need to do.