visa problems

As Dennis and I were helping the new incoming missionaries last Wednesday we learned that the ones staying in Mexico had to get a visa that allowed them to have residence status.  That brought us to the question of what to do with our visa.  Evidently the immigration officer at the airport marked us as tourists instead of short term residents so we had to go to the airport on Thursday and get our visa corrected.  Dennis and Dr. Gill were supposed to go to go to the clinic by the temple so they could get an orientation from the AMA, Dr. Greg Stevens.  We had our visa picture taken at 7:30 AM after breakfast at the comoder and then we went with Dr. Gill and Hermana Gill to the Mexico Temple visitor center when we met Dr and Hermana Stevens.  We saw the clinic, the Mexico Temple Visitor Center and two LDS bookstores.  I talked with Hermana Shaw who is a guide at the center.  The visitors center is absolutely beautiful.  It is the perfect place for missionaries to take the people who they are teaching.

After the visit to the clinic and temple we had a driver from the church area office pick us up and we went to the airport to resign our papers.  I think we will still have to go downtown to get them further processed as will the other missionaries who are staying in Mexico.

We came home from that trip at about 4:00 PM and then went with the other couples to Costco and Walmart and then to dinner at Panda Express.

I love this picture at the Mexico Temple visitors center because I think it must be what Mexico looked like when the Nephite's lived here and this was one of their temples.  

This is a dormitory on the temple grounds.  It can house temple patrons who come from a far distance or in the past it has been used for the Mexican MTC before the CCM was established at Benemerito School 2 years ago.  Right now it houses the medical clinic for the Mexican missionaries to use when they come to see a doctor. (namely Elder Gill and Elder Harston on Tuesdays.

The temple will be reopened in  September after having been closed for about 2 years.