I Wish I Had A Great Title

As I sit in our living room on this rainy Saturday, I have no great stories or situations to tell you about. How unusual for me, right. It is just a plain "Pday" (preparation day). This morning at 9:30 when the supermarket opened, (which is right under our apartment on the main floor of the building), I did the shopping for the week and probably a little more. When I shop here, it is like when you shop at Costco, if you see it, you buy it, because it may not be there the next time you shop. Prices here have almost tripled like we hear they have at home. Just for an example; when we arrived in July, a box of Duncan Hines cookie mix (chocolate chip) was about $2.40, (afordable) then it went to $4.35, now it is an UNBELIEVABLE $8.49. Obviously we are not baking D.H. cookies! Chocolate chips are not available here, I can't figure out why, they have wonderful chocolate. We don't need the sweets anyway, but every now and then the smell of baking cookies was nice!

We received a nice e-mail from our daughter Cindy today, our oldest grandson Ry will be graduating from Saugus High School in June. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? I remember My graduation as if it were yesterday, OK a few weeks ago. How fast time is going. On a personal level how blessed we are to have the technology of the Internet to keep in touch with family and friends. We have several blogs we can log onto and know that family and friends are well and what is happening in their lives. Corinna and Jamie are wonderful to share photos regularly with us as well. It is good to see those grandchildren in their sports and musical recitals, etc.

We are also very blessed to have the technology of the internet and computers in our office also. To be able to communicate with Salt Lake at any time is a great help. Our work is so much record keeping, I can't imagine how hard it would be without the computer, and, as I have shared with you before, Elder W. is the master records and charts creator. We have charts for every statistic there is.

It is now 3:30 in the afternoon and the Andean clouds are rolling into our valley. It is about 2 to 3 hours early. Since our apartment is on the 16th floor we are litterly in the clouds each evening.

We are very blessed to be here serving our Father to share Priesthood principles with our brothers and sisters here in South America. We have said and are teaching daily, the most important part of our calling is stressing to the particpants and leaders the keeping of covenants and being honest. It is a pleasure to see the understanding of the people change little by little, day by day.

I don't know if I should wish for some "exciting" things to happen before I write again, but I will try to take some more pictures of our diverse city to share with you.

Until I write again. Love to all.
Hermana W.