Summer has arrived in Portugal, but it’s still cooler than
California or Utah. We have used our fan
for the last two days. Today is the
hottest so far at 95 degrees, but it is supposed to be cooler tomorrow. It didn’t get this hot very often last summer,
so we are hopeful. The nights cool off
quite well and we often get a breeze if we open our windows. Last night there was a lot of noise by
children screaming and playing until all hours of the night. The night before there had been a noisy
gathering at the park across the street.
Sometimes they have demonstrations.
That’s the negative to living so close to a park; but otherwise we
really enjoy having it so close.
Last weekend Mike had a stomach bug, so our holiday on
Monday was spent just relaxing in our
apartment instead of visiting some sites.
I worked quite a bit on Family Search Indexing, which I am really
enjoying.
Sister Fluckiger (our mission president’s wife) came home
from the hospital on Wednesday and when I called her on Thursday, she said she
was doing quite well. Speaking of
operations, we heard from Erick yesterday that Tristen had to come home from
girls camp early with appendicitis and had surgery on Wednesday. We wish her a speedy recovery. It hasn’t been that long since Camille had
her surgery for the same thing. We hope
it doesn’t become a family tradition.
Since it was the final week of June, we worked hard to
complete our contacts. The most
difficult thing is that we depend on a few other people in Spain and Cape Verde
to help us, and when they haven’t made contact with everyone, we have to fill
in the gaps at the last moment. Mike
went to the office today after lunch to contact 4 people who had been missed.
When we walked on Thursday morning, there was a huge group
of Scouts gathered in front of the Catholic church which is a few blocks
away. There were boy and girl scouts and
leaders with backpacks waiting to board a very nice tour bus to take them
wherever they were headed. The
interesting thing to us besides having a mixed group was that they seemed to be
anywhere from 8 years old to teenagers.
Our beloved family is gathering in Utah this week to have a
family reunion. We won’t be there in
person, but we will be there in spirit.
All of our reunions have been so enjoyable for us, that it is a little
difficult to miss this one. It is so
great to watch our children and grandchildren interact with one another and to
be a part of this interesting group that we call FAMILY. We love you and miss you so much. Have a great time!
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| A picture from Sintra |
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