FHE music and wind

Each Monday we as senior missionary couples meet for FHE.  We take turns giving the lesson. Dennis thrives on giving lessons and I don't so he prepared this one as well. Earlier the nurse here Mosiah said to me that his wife plays the cello as her profession.  He thought it might be a good idea for the missionaries to experience a cello.  He knows that Dennis and I audition the special musical numbers for the Sunday devotionals.  Sometimes if they don't need a piano we just hold the audition at the clinic.  Some numbers are violin or flute or or sung A Capella.  I did't think the mission president would want an outside musical number, but it would be acceptable at FHE so Dennis asked if Mosiah's wife could come and perform for us the next time it was our turn to do a FHE lesson.  He also gave a lesson music and we had lots of refreshments.  He invited a few extra people to come so we had about 20 people in total.

 

One of our nurses.  This is Mosiah Rodriguez and his wife and child.  She told us after she had performed that when she was about 10 years old she told her mother she felt like she was wasting her life because all she did was play video games.  She wanted to something more that that.  Her mother suggested she learn to play a musical instrument so they went to a music school and her mother pointed out the violin players but she felt in love with the sound of the cello.  She has studied for 11 years and performed in orchestras.  She has also played in many competitions including in the United States.  She also teaches cello.   Their baby is 10 months old.  

Dennis also invited the director of the CCM.  He has 5 children.  A daughter is on a mission in Japan and two are married.  That is a big family for the Mexican people.  He was a mission president and at this time he is on the forth quorum of seventy for this area.  He comes to the gym each morning to work out so I see him there.  Nicolas Castaneda and family. He has a very friendly and warm personality as well as do his children and wife.  

It was very windy here last week.  This is the lawn to the side of the clinic.  All those palm branches came down in a short time off the trees that are close by.  Maintenance cleaned them up and by the next morning that many were back again.  The next day they had put caution tape and orange cones around the area preventing anyone from walking near the falling palm leaves.  They cautioned people that they could get hurt if they were hit by a falling palm branch.