La Casa del Señor.

 The view from across the main street in La Molina looking back at the Temple and the Hospitaje on Monday October 31.  Adjoining the Temple, those coming from longer distances will have housing and food available.  There is a present Comodora to feed travelers and others.  That facility will be replaced in the 1st floor, hostel housing on the 2nd floor and missionary housing on the 3rd.  We'll be moving into our apartmento in February.  Can you wait for that?  We'll be excited to be there so we don't have to commute.  Today was shopping in the morning.  We walked over to Jockey Plaza, got some groceries then caught a cab back home.  That cost us 8 soles.  1sole is about 40 cents. 

 Potential tenants were found wandering through the apartments on Monday and a security camera caught this candid shot.  If you know them, send their names to the security department for prosecution.  Penalties include fresh fruits and vegetable on demand.  Amenities will be plentiful, mostly a wide variety of domestic benefits to lighten the mood while we're away from home and our families. 

These people include our Temple President, Robert Lees, Larry and Elrain Thompson from South Jordon, Ut, Bob and Porsche Neville from Glendale AZ, and Claudia and Max Simmons.  One additional couple stayed home, the Spencers from Mesa, AZ.  These are really good people with whom we'll work for the next two years.  We all are scheduled to be here until Oct 31, 2013.  Because we share an apartment with the Thompsons, we don't work when they work.  When we're working they get the apartment to themselves.  This week we'll be doing the afternoon to close hours.  Next week it will be our time to do the mornings. 

We discovered we don't know too much about Spanish food labels.  We shopped for supplies and food without our dictionary.  It was painful but...we didn't do terribly.  The other shoppers spoke no English.  The variety was like Monday although we went to a completely different market (marcado).  There is an endless supply of fish, bread, rice, pastry and all the normal things you buy in the Estados Unidos. (U.S)  The big difference, the labels.  We're drinking from the fire hose these days, in language learning. Every day bombarded by new people, new words, new situations.  Today was even more pressure.  I really think it will test our upper limits of learning.  I can learn these words, I just can say them all.  My mouth doesn't do Spanish comfortably and my tongue is even more unfriendly with them.  The alphabet is almost the same just a few more letters but recognizable.  As of today, three natives have offered to help me learn.  There may be a lesson in how badly I'm saying things.  As I told my kids when they were young, Spanish is easy, just add an 'O' to everything and you're ok.   Right.   !