These are people with whom we work every day.

This is Katty Vaszuez, a RM, and RN here at the

clinic.

 Griselda Sanchez is an excellent secretary

and has worked at this facility for many,

many years...starting back when it was an

LDS boarding school.

James & Dorry Torrez are Senior Missionaries

here at the CCM.  He works security (a former U.S. Marshall)

and she is a Spanish-speaking psychologist.  

 Janet Call & little old lady vendor

We were fascinated by this woman, so fiesty

79 yrs old and boy, could she sell her stuff!

 Fellow travelers on the road of life!

 We are at Tula.  These pictures are mixed up.

In 900 AD this was a flourishing community.

They played a rough form of ball in these ball courts.

Some dispute as to whether the winners or losers 

were sacrificed at the end of the game.  It was played

with a ball, shot from the hip...no hands/feet, through

a hoop of stone affixed to the side of the wall.

Pictured:  Stan Call, Dennis & Nola Harston, Janet Call

 This park was filled with unusual cactus.

 This woman is pictured because of her part-

native attire, her baby, and cellphone--a contrast

 This cactus is called a "Mother-in-Law's Seat!

Not very nice!

 We really enjoyed this little old lady!

 Pres Call chatting her up!

 She's trying to market this stone necklace!

 Our group minus Pres Call.

Harstons, us, & Janet

 Dennis Harston under the pyramid

Wall of Serpents to his left.

 This is a huge snake.  The pathway 

circling behind it goes around and around

until it ends with a big clump of rattles.

 Every block or so in this park, we 

came upon a concentration of

vendors...all marketing the same items!

I'm always teasing that I am a toilet

freak...maybe because I have so

many fun and unusual experiences with them.

Nola Harston took this picture across

the street from the MTC just for me!

 We are taking series of busloads

of missionaries to the Mexico City

Temple Open House

 Fernando Chiquillo and Carlos Zepada

and their Cafeteria staff

 Our weekly Health Mtg Group--

All in Spanish:  Drs. Harston, Montoya

Brother Roberto Mendoza (cafeteria),

Carlos Zepada & Fernando Chiquillo,

Beechers

 CLINIC STAFF..we work really

closely with these neat people.  We

just love them:  Back L-R:  Dr. Harston,

Mosiah Rodriguez & Katty Vasquez (nurses)

Neal and I.  Front L-R:  Nola Harston, Dr.

Montoya, Doraneli Torrez (Spanish counselor),

Griselda Sanchez, our secretary.

 Elder & Sister Montoya...He is a practicing

surgeon or was until the day he started

here...he is 80 and very vital.  She is a former

drama woman!  Yay!  Darling couple

 This is our wonderful English class.

This is one of the highlights of the week for me.

These folks are some of the executives of the CCM

Katty, me, Carmen Hernandez, Nancy Ramirez, 

Fernando Chiquillo, Ivan Betancourt, Guillermo Garduno,

& Sheila Diaz.  They speak English well, just need

some touch ups....We love this class. Neal was absent

but plays a big part in the teaching.  

 This is North American arrival day-Wed

usually in a driving rain!

 Arrival day luggage sorting

 Usually this room is packed.

Neal & I help Dr. Harston (on the rt)

asking questions about immunization.

He is really the guru, we are just the flunkies.

 We have the really nice assignment

of escorting missionaries to the Temple

open house.  They are chipper this morning.  8AM

 Christus room...filled to capacity

 Walking through the parking lots

to get to the temple.  Our temple pictures 

are poor because we had to shoot into the sun.

 This is a replica of a picture in the

temple of Christ in the Americas.

 Another shot of the Christus...another day.

 This is the largest temple outside of the 

USA, and one of only 5 where Moroni

carries the plates.  They expect 300,000 

visitors for the Open House.  We saw

a large percentage of them last week:)

Neal concentrating--the first of 

many trips to the temple for the Open House.

We are responsible for 4 trips.  It has been so

lovely.  Just a really nice experience.  They

show a movie called the "Gospel Plan".  

It is available in the Salt Lake Visitor's Center.

We cry every single time.

We made a visit to Chapultepec Park, a huge reserve in downtown Mexico City.  It has a forest, a lake, a castle, and a zoo.  It is very lovely.  We've wanted to see it for a long time.

 Maximillian, Austrian appointee of Napoleon,

built this Castle in now-downtown Mexico City.

It is the 4th most visited spot here.  After his wife returned to Europe to gain support for him, he was taken before a firing

squad and killed.  He ruled 3 years.  His successors after the

revolution lived here in these lavish quarters.  The castle resembles castles in Europe of the same period--heavy tapestries, ornate chandeliers, big pictures, etc.  

 It was subsequently used as a Military School

and fortress.  

Harstons and Jackie

 Some of the many murals idealizing the

Revolution.  Everything in these museums is

in Spanish, so we miss a ton.  A guided tour in English

would cost $25.  We were too cheap!

 The following pictures are taken in sequence

from one side of the terrace to another, giving

an idea of the Mexico City skyline.

 Downtown Mexico City--statue honoring freedom.

 Neal ran into the cross pole behind him.

He was trying to fix our camera, which has now

died!  When it happened, it just spurted blood,

soiling his pant cuffs.  Luckily, we just happened to

have a doctor on hand, who daubed it with kleenex

and held it until it clotted like this.  It was pretty frightening

at first, as head wounds often are.

 Later in the day, Dr. Harston administered

first-aid to him in the Clinic.

 Probably one of my favorite things here is

having the security of having a doctor in the

house who is actually willing to talk to us!

 Statue of Abraham Lincoln, across the street

from Martin Luther King, near the American Park

 We went to an upscale neighborhood for lunch:

Polanco, and ate at Porter's restaurant.

Top:  Nola's lasagna

 My chicken Alfredo--interesting crockery

Dennis had ribeye steak and red potatoes.

 A wooden bike.