English class and cafeteria

Dennis and I taught the CCM drivers our English class again today.  The drivers pick up new missionaries from the airport, drive missionaries to the temple visitors center on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursdays, drive missionaries downtown into the heart of Mexico City for visa fingerprinting, and then drive them back to the airport again when they leave. They probably drive other times as well I just don't know about that.  

The man in blue in front does's know much English yet and the driver in orange knows a lot. That makes it a little more difficult for us.   Brother Soronno, in orange picked us up.  They always wear dark suits with name badges when they drive and they look very professional, but at our class they are quite light-hearted.   Sheila is a sectary and knows about average for our beginner class.  Today we learned prepositions.  I had pictures illustrating over, under on, in, below, etc.  After we talked about those I got out a ball and a box and had them come up one at a time and ask the members of the class, "Where is the ball?" and then they would hold the ball wherever they wanted to.  The others answered, "The ball is__________the box."  Then we played bingo with an illustrated card  I made about the prepositions.  When they had that down pretty well I had bingo cards with the writing only of prepositions.  They each had a package of M&M's as bingo chips. I'm sure they liked the candy.  Next week we will follow up on prepositions.  Dennis took the last 20 minutes of our hour class with his things.   It is really important that these drives speak some English as they are the first CCM contact in Mexico with North American missionaries.  We also reviewed from last week when they were learning basic greeting phrases.

Our new comodor is really nice.  Hermana Lucas in the yellow blouse

was sick enough on Monday that we sent her to the emergency room.  Her companion in the yellow skirt was so kind and compassionate. Of course she had to go also to be with Hermana Lucas.  The only problem came when they returned with lab work that said she had typhoid.  Of course she didn't have typhoid but she was very recently was immunized for typhoid  which skewed her lab results.  She didn't know that she didn't really have typhoid fever and when she told her Latino roommates that she had typhoid they were scared to death and wondered what kind of place they were living in where a missionary could get typhoid.  Dennis had to call and tell Hermana Lucas that she didn't really have typhoid.  It is good to see her eating well again after several days.

That is Nutella in the big white bucket.  The comodor staff finally decided that the little jars which actually were not little but they just were not as big as the buckets are, just weren't working.  This is an evening meal.  The big entree meal is always served at noon.  The Nutella is out at breakfast and in the evening.  The missionaries really go through it.  

Elder Cruz in our branch/rama is from Brazil.  His father is a member of the 4th quorum of seventy. His district of 8 missionaries all came in speaking on an intermediate level so they were put together with teachers who can teach on an accelerated level.  He is eating a Nutella sandwich for dinner, plus his beans and rice and lettuce.  Elder Fitt next to him was also one sick Elder.  His great big companion practically had to carry him into their casa after they had been to the clinic on Monday.  I had to pick them up and drop them off using the golf cart because Elder Fitt was too sick to walk to the clinic. It is good to see Elder Fitt smiling again.  He just stepped into the picture when he saw me taking it.  The hermana/companion with red hair was such a great support for Sister Lucas.