Last weekend was another party and dance at the institute. There was a group of institute youth here visiting the temple from Puerto Rico so they had a dance to welcome them. There were only 16 of them but there were about 300 youth at the dance. They love to dance and everyone seemed to have a good time. Hermana Finlayson has a following of young women that just love her!
We had a wonderful time on Monday traveling to the northern part of the city and visiting a school for the handicapped. Wendy had sent some books with Matt and Vanessa when they came to see us from Books for a Better World to donate and we took them to the school to deliver them. We were fortunate that another missionary couple was going to visit the school the same day and knew where it was so we followed them.
The kids were so well behaved and so cute. They loved the books and were so happy to have their pictures taken. They were of varying degrees and types of handicaps. It was impressive how they took care of each other and seemed to be so happy.
We had an interesting surprise on our way to the school. As we were driving down one of the streets we came across a swimming pool in the street with just enough room for a car to go around. If you think about it, why not! All of the street isn't used at the same time so why not use part of it to place a swimming pool.
The kids loved having their picture taken. There was not a lot of water in the pool but on a hot day, 18 inches of water can make for great fun!
Sherrie loves to give showers for sisters who are getting married or having babies. She is planning a baby shower for one of the sisters that works at the temple and at the missionary training center. She enlisted some of the girls at the institute to help make little baby buggies and spent the afternoon on Saturday making a diaper motorcycle for the baby shower. It was very clever and turned out cute.
