temple trip with missionaries today

The Mexico City Temple opened on Monday, three days ago.  The people here were very anxious to go back to the temple.  We were also anxious to have our missionaries go through a session but with all the saints attending as well as us it is a major weight on the temple.  It took our missionaries a seven hour trip to be able to go through the session.  One of the bottle necks came when it was time to pass through the veil.  They were not prepared with English speaking veil workers and our missionaries just didn't know enough Spanish to make it a quick process.

Dennis and I were supposed to accompany a group of 30 missionaries through a session today but the trip was changed so they just went to the visitors center instead.  Ours was a 4 hour trip.  Dennis and I were also set apart as veil workers today to help in getting our missionaries through the veil faster.  Perhaps next week when we take some missionaries we can attend a session with them instead of just going to the visitors center.

Tonight I think we experienced the biggest rain, lightening and thunder storm we have seen in three months.  We had a meeting to go to right in the middle of it and I felt like I was crossing a river just to get there.  The streets and sidewalks were literally flooded.  I had a trash bag and an umbrella for protection. Dennis had an umbrella. His suit was soaked and his pants looked like someone had dumped a big bucket of water on him.  I took off my shoes and dumped out the water  but they  were heavy and wet and I could hardly keep them on with the current of water I was wading  through. I thought I had seen heavy rain but tonight the street was literally flooded with 3 inches of water. We had our meeting and met the new members of our branch and by the time it was over we walked back to our dorm room with only a few drops here and there falling from the sky.