Jackie and Janet at the bottom of the Pyramid

Note, the inside of the column is stuffed with wood.

Vendor and naive shopper!

 Getting Info at the Tourist Desk

Sweet Neal helping me down off the top of the

Pyramid at Tula

 Elder Christofferson came for a Devotional

Wednesday afternoon.  Our MTC Choir

sang, "I Stand All Amazed".  I played and E. Harston

directed.  It turned out to be very lovely.

 CLINIC STAFF

 Harstons and Neal ventured outside the

walls of the MTC this week.

 Dr and Sister Montoya

Pres & Sister Ruvuclava, 1st Couns

in MTC Presidency

These are all pictures of our trip to Tula, an ancient

city of two pyramids with statues on the top.

 Wall of Serpents on edge of pyramid at Tula

 Tula is a park of cactus

 This was exciting because they had a 

pamphlet in English and some of the writing

on the displays were in English.

 The small museum had several examples

of parts of the huge male warrior statues found

in the park.

 All of the upright columns in the park at one

time supported the ceilings of the temples.

 Along one side of the pyramid stood a long

wall with images of Quetzequatal the ruler,

and panthers, and snakes

 Our group minus Pres Call, our photographer

Dennis & Nola Harston, us, and Sister Call

 It looked like they formed large rectangular

columns in pieces, and kind of glued them

together by having a wedge (see the white thing

on top) that fit into a hole in the 2nd piece.

 Neal likes this picture of this twisted up old cactus

with the statues in the background.

 I climbed to the top--something of a feat.

Even the young kids with good knees were

puffing..plus the steps are treacherously 

narrow and very steep from one step to the next.

 More pictures of the wall.

 This is an image of a butterfly--part

of the Quetzequatl myth.

 See the image of the panther

 These statues are spectacular....See the

feathered circle on the backside of this one.

 Each statue is unique with different

patterns in the headdresses, back-dresses, 

and ornamentation of the leggings, waist,

and headgear.

 This shows the image of a warrior.

 They are very tall.  They are the columns

that supported the roof of this temple pyramid.

 A pic of us in front of them.

 This figure had a hole in his hands.

Our colleagues (who can read Spanish)

explained that he was a flag bearer.

 Unusual cactus

 Every block or so, they had a cluster

of vendors to market their wares.