January 6 2016 day of the kings and "Polys"

January 6th here in Mexico is the "Dia de los Santos Reyes" of day of the Holy Kings.  The night before the children leave their shoes out and supposedly the three wise men or three kings come and leave gifts int heir shoes.  We celebrate as does the rest of Mexico by having a very large ring or crown of bread called a "Rosca de Reyes".  Hermano Cachillo,Carlos Zapata and Dr. Montoya

Baked inside the bread are little white plastic figurines of Joseph, Mary, Jesus, and the three wise men.  Each person cuts their only slice of bread and who ever gets the baby Jesus has to provide tamales for a party in February.  (Supposedly)

I really like Maggie.  She works at the reception desk  in the Joseph Smith Building

Hermana Torres

Mary Carmen is also a favorite employee of mine.  I wish she could find the right man and marry him.  She is dating a man here who is a teacher on campus.  

We seem to have a fair amount of island missionaries.  The sister in the middle is from Hawaii.  The sister wearing red plaid is Tongan.  The one next to her is from a royal line. This group of "polys" as they call themselves auditioned for a musical number and sang "When There's Love at Home."  They ask and permission was granted that they sing could sing the second verse in Tongan.  All the musical numbers have to be sung in Spanish.