Florentin, Alan's counselor in the branch, gave us a bottle of molasses made on his property and we used it in making cookies to take around to some of the members. They were very good cookies!
One day we caught this gecko on our front door trying to get inside.
The next day this lizard was getting some shade from our car. There are a lot of lizards here. When they run, they pull them selves up onto their two hind legs and take off. they are very fast.
We drove 8 hours to the capitol and stayed with John and Chris Norman, the temple president and matron (his wife). They had all the temple missionaries, along with the nurses from the MTC, come to his house for FHE. One nurse was leaving for home the next morning and her replacement was there. Everyone told of something that touched them from general conference. It was a touching and spiritual evening.
The next afternoon, after we did a session at the temple, the Normans took us to Antigua. We saw the church, Capuchinas, built in 1736 for Franciscan nuns.
I love the arches, fountains, and wooden doors.
This is where the nuns did their laundry.
2nd floor looking down on the courtyard. My camera battery died, but there was so much more to see.
We went to the bus station, they had hundreds of buses of all different colors, going all over the country.
We ate at Pollo Campero and then headed to the market shops. They are very colorful and we ended up buying a wool poncho for Alan, and a purse that I can use for my temple clothes.
The next day we did another session at the temple, did our food shopping, and headed home. Between El Rancho and La Cubre the road is falling down the mountainside. These workers are building the road up underneath. Sometimes there are landslides onto the road, called "derrumbes" and sometimes the dirt under the road itself caves in (like in this picture), and slides down the mountain. These are called "hundimientos". Both are fairly common here. In this area they're both within a few hundred yards of each other. We made it home in 8 hours. Along the way, we had a small miracle.
We had planned on getting gas in Coban, but didn't watch our gauge. 1 1/2 hours later, we noticed our gas light was on. We were traveling through little villages, but there were no gas stations until the next big town, called Chisec. We watched and prayed as the gas gauge hit the "E" for empty, and we still had several kilometers to go. We were constantly going up and down hills, so we were using quite a bit of gas. I felt like we could stall at any moment. Then something happened. The needle for the gas gauge slowly started rising. After a few kilometers it showed almost 1/8 of a tank, and the light went off. It sat that way for a few minutes, as we passed through two more villages, then started going back down normally again. Within another 15 minutes, we had arrived at Chisec and stopped at a gas station. The gauge light was on and the needle was back on "E" again. We had just made it! We are certain that we received help from the other side to get there.
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