Happenings

The other day I looked out the window into our temple garden filled with families enjoying the beautiful sunshine, the fountain and the surrounding gardens.  On the mound that surrounds the fountain and where the children like to run up and roll down, I saw two little boys about the size of Ella, ascending the mound and then running down the other side as though they were chasing something, like little boys like to do when they see a bird or squirrels.  This time, it was little monkeys, I discovered as the monkeys scampered up the nearest tree.  This past 2 weeks the property in back of us, which was filled with tropical trees and accompanying birds and animals, sadly, was cleared to make way for who knows what? Yet to be determined.  But I guess the monkeys decided that our garden looked like a place to investigate for a new home.  I haven't seen them today so maybe they moved on to a more dense forest, we shall see.

From Internet

When was the last time you remember attending a Sacrament Meeting at 6:00 PM?  There may even be some of you who read this who never have done that.  I had to look it up myself to see when we actually started on the "Block" schedule.  It was in 1980 that that change was made.  Why do I ask such a random question?  Yes, being the beginning of a New Year we are probably all changing our meeting times.  We now meet from 3:30 to 6:30 PM, Sacrament Meeting being last.  We have 3 wards in our building and we moved from the middle to the last hour which, here, happens to be 3:30.  Why?  The 1 o-clock hour, which is normal in the US, is right in the middle of the lunch hour for Brazilians and there is no way they would get a congregation together during that time.  Even at the temple everything slows down for the ritual "almoco", Lunch Hour.

As you have often heard us say, "Every day, an adventure!"