The laundry room, door, machines, master pc w hookup. Elder Palacio cleaning the meeting room.
Elder Allen, Dr & Sister Brunt, Pres. Acosta, Elder Johnson
Spanish Family Home Evening Group in meeting room. 
Our schedule:
In a two- week period we have ten days in the temple. Four days are on the morning shift. Six days are on the afternoon shift. So we try to adjust our body clocks. The morning shift we arise at 5 am, shower & get dressed to go to the temple, fix breakfast, eat, clear and wash the dishes, fix a lunch for Bryce to eat in the temple, say our morning prayers and get out the door by 6:30 or 6:40 am at the latest. It is a rush to be ready. We return home around 3 pm and can choose our activity for the rest of the afternoon and evening. There is only the evening meal to fix, eat, and to do the dishes. Three days a week there are floors to clean, bathroom to clean and furniture to dust. We usually go to a market or store two times a week that takes one to two hours. The morning shift gives us a little more time to relax and do these other activities.
The afternoon shift is completely different. Because Bryce is a morning person and evenings are the most tiring of the day, we try to sleep in until 7 am. We arise, shower, partially get ready for the temple. Fix breakfast, eat, clear and wash the dishes, fix Bryce’s lunch to eat at the temple. At 11 am begin preparations for the big meal of the day, eat, do the dishes, finish getting ready, have our morning prayer and leave the house at 12:30 to 12:40 pm. We return home around 9 pm. Eat some snacks, relax for an hour or so, do some email and then go to bed. It is hard to fit in any shopping, cleaning, or any other activities on the afternoon temple schedule.
Every Friday is our laundry day. It takes three hours to get it all washed, dried, ironed and put away. We are included on a schedule to take our turn sweeping the street in front of the apartment unit, tidying up the courtyard, cleaning the meeting room, teaching the English Sunday School class, teaching the Spanish family home evening group that meets on Sunday night, and teaching the English family home evening group the meets on Monday night. All of these add up and keep us pretty busy. We like to spend quite a bit of time studying Spanish and doing email to keep in touch with our family and friends. Mondays are used for special events and longer trips like the one to Tula and for the July 5th picnic. Shopping trips like to Costco or to WalMart can take longer than two hours. You can never get everything you need in one place so we have to make more trips than to just one place.
To keep things sanitary we use a lot of Clorox. We carry all of our drinking, cooking, and teeth-brushing water from the laundry room where there is a good filtering system. Clorox goes in the dishwashing water and in the rinsing water. All of the counters and table are washed with Clorox water. The floors had to be scrubbed on hands and knees along the edges. Mexicans use rag mops that don’t get into the corners. I don’t plan to use a rag mop so shouldn’t have to do the corners very often.
Bryce health requires some attention. Sometimes I do the shopping alone with another couple to save wearing out his hip. I try to go to bed early and sleep-in so as not to wake him since he needs more sleep. He has strength exercises he does morning and night. He has a therapist (osteopata) come once a week to give him back, neck, and arm treatments using message and other devices. He takes a lot of anti oxidants and other natural things to boost his health, energy, and general well being. He tries not to take too many anti- inflammatory drugs for his hip pain because it causes stomach problems. We are discovering that the Parkinson’s disease affects his sleep at night and makes him tired during the day. It affects his attitude and he feels hopeless and anxious.
A neighbor has been coming once every other week to give us Spanish lessons. To explain how we are doing, I get more than one compliment every day from hermanos telling me how great Bryce is doing with all the tasks in the temple and with his use of the language. He has the respect of a lot of people. The hopelessness and anxiety are really unfounded. I feel comfortable doing any of the things they have asked me to do. Psalms 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Dad and I hope you all feel the same way we do. We love thy house O God, wherein thine honor dwells, the joy of thine abode no earthly joy excels. We love to see the temple, we’re going there today!
In a two- week period we have ten days in the temple. Four days are on the morning shift. Six days are on the afternoon shift. So we try to adjust our body clocks. The morning shift we arise at 5 am, shower & get dressed to go to the temple, fix breakfast, eat, clear and wash the dishes, fix a lunch for Bryce to eat in the temple, say our morning prayers and get out the door by 6:30 or 6:40 am at the latest. It is a rush to be ready. We return home around 3 pm and can choose our activity for the rest of the afternoon and evening. There is only the evening meal to fix, eat, and to do the dishes. Three days a week there are floors to clean, bathroom to clean and furniture to dust. We usually go to a market or store two times a week that takes one to two hours. The morning shift gives us a little more time to relax and do these other activities.
The afternoon shift is completely different. Because Bryce is a morning person and evenings are the most tiring of the day, we try to sleep in until 7 am. We arise, shower, partially get ready for the temple. Fix breakfast, eat, clear and wash the dishes, fix Bryce’s lunch to eat at the temple. At 11 am begin preparations for the big meal of the day, eat, do the dishes, finish getting ready, have our morning prayer and leave the house at 12:30 to 12:40 pm. We return home around 9 pm. Eat some snacks, relax for an hour or so, do some email and then go to bed. It is hard to fit in any shopping, cleaning, or any other activities on the afternoon temple schedule.
Every Friday is our laundry day. It takes three hours to get it all washed, dried, ironed and put away. We are included on a schedule to take our turn sweeping the street in front of the apartment unit, tidying up the courtyard, cleaning the meeting room, teaching the English Sunday School class, teaching the Spanish family home evening group that meets on Sunday night, and teaching the English family home evening group the meets on Monday night. All of these add up and keep us pretty busy. We like to spend quite a bit of time studying Spanish and doing email to keep in touch with our family and friends. Mondays are used for special events and longer trips like the one to Tula and for the July 5th picnic. Shopping trips like to Costco or to WalMart can take longer than two hours. You can never get everything you need in one place so we have to make more trips than to just one place.
To keep things sanitary we use a lot of Clorox. We carry all of our drinking, cooking, and teeth-brushing water from the laundry room where there is a good filtering system. Clorox goes in the dishwashing water and in the rinsing water. All of the counters and table are washed with Clorox water. The floors had to be scrubbed on hands and knees along the edges. Mexicans use rag mops that don’t get into the corners. I don’t plan to use a rag mop so shouldn’t have to do the corners very often.
Bryce health requires some attention. Sometimes I do the shopping alone with another couple to save wearing out his hip. I try to go to bed early and sleep-in so as not to wake him since he needs more sleep. He has strength exercises he does morning and night. He has a therapist (osteopata) come once a week to give him back, neck, and arm treatments using message and other devices. He takes a lot of anti oxidants and other natural things to boost his health, energy, and general well being. He tries not to take too many anti- inflammatory drugs for his hip pain because it causes stomach problems. We are discovering that the Parkinson’s disease affects his sleep at night and makes him tired during the day. It affects his attitude and he feels hopeless and anxious.
A neighbor has been coming once every other week to give us Spanish lessons. To explain how we are doing, I get more than one compliment every day from hermanos telling me how great Bryce is doing with all the tasks in the temple and with his use of the language. He has the respect of a lot of people. The hopelessness and anxiety are really unfounded. I feel comfortable doing any of the things they have asked me to do. Psalms 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Dad and I hope you all feel the same way we do. We love thy house O God, wherein thine honor dwells, the joy of thine abode no earthly joy excels. We love to see the temple, we’re going there today!
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