Mission Training Center Missionaries Sing

This past Monday at our family home evening with the other senior missionary couples, we had a pot luck to send off our past temple president (the Harris's) and his first counselor (the Bowcuts). They have been wonderful to work with. The Harris's are from Portland Oregon and are returning to take the place as a sealer in the Portland Oregon Temple while the brother who was a sealer at the Portland Temple is coming here to be the temple president. They are changing places.

We were blessed to have a group of elders from the CCM(Mission Training Center), which is directly above our apartment in our building, come and sing to us. I have included a video clip of their performance. We love being close to the missionaries. When we go to bed at night, we can hear them singing above us. We feel like we are hearing angels! This past week a new group arrived. There are about 16 from North America and about 10 Haitian missionaries. I love to be with the missionaries in the temple and feel of their power. We met the first Haitian general authority (area Seventy) this past Friday at the institute. His name is Elder Piernó (sp) and is only 37 years old. He has already served as a stake president. He is the coordinator of Seminaries and Institutes in Haiti.

Many activities and even a visit from my beautiful sister, Joy and her husband, Lane. We are standing in front of the house of the son of Christopher Columbus. It is a huge stone building which is remarkable given the time period and crude tools used for construction. We also spent some time visiting the old fortress that was built at the mouth of the river to protect the city. It was later turned into a prison. The many prisoners that died there were just thrown into the river which runs next to it. It was humbling to walk through such a place. The picture of the gate is the original entrance into the city from the river. It was built in the early 1500's.

They also spent 4 days in an all inclusive resort on our favorite beach about an hour from Santo Domingo. We joined them for one night and thoroughly enjoyed it.