A Senior missionary

 Senior missionaries are not just old missionaries.  We are encouraged to learn about the culture of our countries and to enjoy them.  We can go to restuarants, beaches, gardens, etc.  We don't have a set preparation day either.  Tomorrow for example, we go to make a presentation at a Mission Presidents Training meeting at a resort called Casa De Campo along the south-east coast.  Since we are there anyway, we will stay an extra night and go to the beach and use the villa's swimming pool. 

That is not what I am writing about today though.  I am writing about watching sports with Spanish announcers.  We  have a TV which gets ESPN Deportes, so last night I was watching Cardinals and Rangers.  I miss understanding the announcers, I haven't watched enough to catch on to the game lingo yet.  It was still fun to watch the Rangers work out of jam after jam but it was missing something.  I never thought I would say this but it is true, I could have even listened to Howard Cosell.

Tuesday and Thursdays are our Temple work days, so we will do a shift from 4-9 pm today and go again on Thursday morning, 8 am-1 pm.  Tuesday is not our golden time, we are just learning the Spanish for the ordinances so most of the time I am off by myself memorizing.  Today we have a large group from Guadeloupe, so they speak French.  We don't know the words in French at all.  So we are humbled on Tuesdays at the Temple.  On Thursdays we shine, as the missionaries need English sometimes still, and I can help get them where they need to go.  So we learn to take the good with the bad.