Susan Easton Black and Stan Watts Fireside

You may recognize Susan Easton Black which is a professor of Church History and has been on the BYU channel speaking on the life of The Prophet Joseph Smith. (John was like a little boy in the candy shop being around her since he loves all History.) Stan Watts is great artist of sculpture. You will have to see more pictures of his work when we get home.

Presidend Antonio Pagaza 2nd Counselor and his wife Rosa.

They live in Mexico and we will miss them. His wife is so much fun and spiritual.

President Roueche and his lovely wife and President Juan and Celia Beccerra 1st Counselor.

We are sure unhappy about losing our great Presidency of the Temple, they leave the end of October. They have been so good to us. They are spiritual giants and we are thankful these two couples live in Utah so we can visit with them again. I know it looks like were just having fun but as The President say this is a grueling calling because we work long hours and Monday is are day of rest or party or shopping for our food which we end up paying for the following week...tired tired tired but loving the work. :)

The Gang!!!!

"She made me do it !!!!!!"

OK I'm just like my mom dancing by the Mariarchis but my friend Hermana Bluvan was the one that encourage me to do it with her. I'm such a sucker!! :)

John and I in the dress he bought me for the fiesta and his sombrero is great.

The 16th of September 2009

We had a ball at the Mexican Independence Day Party with the other Missionary's. Many of us did different dances and songs and lots of good food. I'm the one in the blue purplish dress that comes up in second row that does all the fast movements. Good luck in finding me!!!

John's Birthday Party

These two pictures are the celebration of John's 72nd year old Birthday party. Their were 21 missionary's that came to help him celebrate and they sang the Happy Birthday song in Spanish.

Hotel Stay for one night.....

We went to the Embassy Suites for a over night stay since we, and two other missionary couples could not take the noise from the celebration of the "DE Arragon" party in the streets which had 48 six foot high speakers that shook our windows and doors.
We had a great dinner at "Evita Argentinean Restaurant" of Steak, Shrimp and a beautiful salad. For the next morning they had a complementary breakfast of just about everything you could think of to eat.
We also went to an English Speaking Ward that was nice for a change. Since we went in July we counted that evening as our Anniversary.

John's office visit after operation.

We ate at the restaurant there in the hospital and it happens to be named after my maiden name "La Huerta." The food was great....we ate the Huerta sandwich.

Our Puebla trip..............

Eating lunch at Puebla with Dr. Brunt and his lovely wife Diane right and Dr. Morgan and is lovely wife Karan, left. The restaurant was very pretty.
We also went to a few Catholic Cathedrals......The Orange colored one is actually built on top of two Pyramids. (picture of John in the tunnels on next group of pictures that leads to that Cathedral.)

More on Puebla trip..............

The next week after John getting out of the Hospital he was given permission to go on our previous planed trip to Puebla. Yeah!!! off on the bus for about two hours one way. Our first stop was at a Pottery plant where they made the clay in large vats and where they baked the pottery, and also we were privilege to see the artist at work painting them....oh their so beautiful and expensive. Next of course our group shot of all other missionary's which included Doctors, (see we were safe, we had a Doctor with us.) Presidents of the CCM (MTC) and the Visitor Center and others plus our group of Temple Missionary's.
Next picture is of the Pyramid court yard where they gather and played their ball games. Next went through a very narrow long tunnel underneath the Pyramids which show the excavation of the Pyramids. (a little claustrophobic) :-(
Next us on the bus with very happy Missionaries singing and laughing all the way. Should of got a picture on the way back home, most of them all sleeping.

Sister Christensen made a wonderful home made soup.

John welcome after comingt home from Hospital in our unit of Missionary's.

John got lots of support from the Missionary's Dr. Elder Brunt and his wife and Dr.Elder Morgan and his wife,also Elder and Sister Shurtz, Elder and Sister Christensen's and the Elder and Sister Gomez not pictured came and visited Sunday and Monday(which are not pictured except for Sister Christensen.) The ones pictured are those that brought soup, salmon rice dinner and jello, fruit. We are so blessed to have such wonderful support and love from them and especially our Heavenly Father. Even though John had to go through pain we really had a great experience throughout this ordeal.
The beautiful flower came from Elder and Sister Gomes....they are so sweet and she is humorous.

More of John's visitors.........

Some pictures of our family after Jonathan and Sarah 's Wedding and Sealing.

To bad Jonathan and Sarah didn't want to join us :) We had fun eating at "Out Back" in Dublin, CA. We didn't have much time with them but the little time we had was a precious moment. So glad my sister joined us because we wound of not had much time together at the reception. Our little nieto (cholo)love's Grandpa!!! So glad that Darla and Jamie came all the way from Kentucky, we loved seeing them. Glad that Albert didn't have a hot date or maybe we would not of seen him. And of course we loved being with Delna and Vince and Asjia and Jalen but we missed Alyssa.

Our Hospital experiance in pictures below.........

Our welcome home from our good friends and neighbors in our unit. They were so supportive and Sister Christensen had a wonderful homemade soup for us when we arrived home. We are so grateful for the many blessings we felt as we went though this bump in the road. We are back and are ready to roll! (well almost)
Right outside our window is the view we had and where the helicopter took off and just had to have a picture of that. Oh and as you can see he had a pretty nurse to pat him on the back many times to get up flem in his lungs.

More pictures in the Hospital

John had such excellent care at the "Hospital Angeles Morcel". Doctor Rosas, and the Surgeons, Dr. Musan and Dr. Sanchez (which are pictured on the right, the other two are interns dressed in white) and Nurses were the best. The hospital was immaculate and they help us have a very comfortable stay all six days. John was in pain with his pancreas inflamed and gall bladder was fill with fragments of stones and the nurses were very attentive and loving towards us both. After four days of not eating his fever went down and they were able to operate, and he feels so much better. I told the surgeon Dr. Mussan that my daughter was quite worried about being operated in Mexico and he laughed and said "did she think I would be wearing a sombrero and use knife to operate." He really got a kick out of it and said yes but he understood being in a foreign land and being nervous. (By the way the Doctors all spoke English and were educated also in the U.S.} Dr. Brunt our Dr. and missionary from the U.S. make sure we got to the best hospital and the best surgeons, plus our Stake President (which is also a Doctor as neurologist)here in Mexico was very involved since he knows the surgeons well and takes care of us Missionary's.