Sweet and Sour

 Abish Romero was baptized tonight.  Her sister, Ashley, is a student and she played prelude of several songs and four songs for the baptism.  Abish had written the message on the board. It says "Today, January 7, is my birthday and I am being baptized.  Her younger sister, Ashlani, is a poster child for Leukemia.  I often look at Abish as the forgotten child and think of Rod's mother.  She had a younger sister who was very sickly and died when she was about 10 or 12.  Mom said she was jealous of all the attention her sister received and sometimes behaved badly because of it. 

A student gave me 3 naranjillas.  They looked like kiwis growing on a bush.  The juice is milky and sour like a lemon.  We tried a drink with it, and also tried mixing it with frozen pineapple in a milkshake.  It isn't our favorite.

Here is the inside.  It is pretty.  Oh well.


Our triumph of last week has turned into our trial for this week.  Oriel is too old for a mission.  We thought we had checked before, but now he has to face this after high hopes.  I'm grateful for the atonement of Christ that covers all pain.  He just has to find his way through this.  Too bad we're so far away.  But...Thank Heaven for internet communication.  He has become dear to us.
He has gotten active again, but was thinking that after a mission and that growth and learning experience, he would be better prepared to decide if he should go to school and what curriculum -- now he needs to move on with his life and find a good path forward.