Changes Sept 2012

1. A red tomato in our patio garden.  They are still small but I still hope for one BLT.   There are three plants in these pots.  They don't get much sun but are producing over 40 golf ball size tomatoes.   Probably not enough for salsa but we have found imported salsa.

2.  Sister Oliver started her first piano student yesterday.  Teaching piano was something that she really enjoyed in Mexico and the two youth there continue to play in the Hidalgo branch.  We saw  keyboards in a store after we first got here but they disappeared before we made up our mind about buying.  When we saw more a couple a weeks ago we got it.  We had one teaching book which we had given to the office elders who are practicing in their spare time.  They gave it up and made some copies of the pages they are working on.

3. A new institute student.  Our class is growing a new student each of the last two weeks.  Jessica is a student who has studied Accounting and is studying Business Management.  We had cupcakes for our reading treat this week, thanks to sister Oliver.  In church today Judith asked if she could make up the classes she missed if she started attending and we assured her she could. It is more fun with a bigger class.

4.  A visiting teaching assignment.  We have had a home teaching assignment for a few months and even had a home teacher visit us.  Now we have a visiting teacher assignment.   Sister Oliver was assigned 2 sisters, a mother and daughter, and we have an appointment this afternoon.

5.  New missionaries, new apartments and new assignments (transfer week).  Most wards will have two companionships in each ward soon.  Cali had 4 stakes a few years ago but now has three.  The new missionaries should help the church here grow and strengthen the stakes as well as help the districts in surrounding areas become stakes.