We made a mission visit to the zone conferences of the Puerto Rico San Juan mission. We flew to San Juan on Sunday afternoon. In San Juan we stayed in the mission home with our gracious hosts the Alvarados. It was great to be around their children.
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| Alvarados, McDermids and Cindy at Fuddruckers. We liked being back in the USA; the food, brand names and driving were great to be around again. |
On Monday we had a Clinic day to review medical and mental health issues with individual missionaries. Life is better in Puerto Rico for the missionaries, food and water are generally safe and apartments are niceer, often air conditioned and at least screened over the windows. So I didn't see any GI issues, more chronic pain related to injuries, and unusual symptoms difficult to diagnose. Tuesday was a zone conference and we presented along with the McDermid's. Wendesday we drove to Ponce and stayed at the Ponce Hilton. We did have time before leaving on Wednesday to go to Viejo San Juan and walk from Cristobal Fort to El Morro Fort. The old walls, cannons and stairways are fun to see.
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Cristobal is a fort designed to guard the land
approaches to old San Juan. |
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| Cannon ports give some god views over the old town and water. |
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| El Morro was built by the Spanish to guard the harbor over about 250 years beginning in about 1525. The fort finally fell to foreign invaders for good during the Spanish-American War, in 1898. |
In Ponce we had a clinic in the afternoon on Wednesday and had zone conference on Thursday. We had a late trip back to San Juan Thursday evening. Then Friday was another zone conference and off to St. Kitt's Friday night for Saturday's Isles of the Sea zone conference.
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| Pres. Alvarado teaches exercise to the missionaries. |
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Pres. Alvarado leads birthday singing,
it was his birthday this Monday, 21 Nov. |
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| Cathedral in Ponce Centro, near the famous firehouse and Plaza las Delicias. |
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| Iguana in trees behind Ponce Stake Center |
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| The St. Kitts Chapel is small, but beautiful. This magnificent Mango tree provides shade and fruit. Guess who wanted it cut down because regulations say no fruit trees on Church property? |
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| Presdient and Sr. Precious read her mission call, right in front of everybody. She didn't seem that pleased with the whole thing. |
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| We had a wonderful tour and spiritual experiences. The mission Spirit is a great one to feel. New for us to observe so closely. |
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I really like the "weather station."
ReplyDeleteLooks like a great week. Good to see pictures. Who wanted the tree cut down?
ReplyDeleteSalt Lake wanted the Mango gone. The "classroom" it makes is used every week. The fruit is not wasted either, the members use it all up.
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