News from Belize and Rome

Wednesday we met with the Belmopan district. (From right to left) Elders Blackburn, Price, Pendleton, Hicken, Suarez, Gray, Wingett, and Saunders. Why are they smiling? They truly are happy to be sharing the good news of Jesus Christ.  

District leader Elder Hicken (second from the left) opens the meeting by leading the group in the singing of a hymn.

The Ical family lives on the hill above our house, accessed from the trail. As their two sons play in the yard, the white steeple from our church can be seen in the distance.

Jacob Ical showed us a piece of presumably an ancient hand grinding stone that he uncovered behind his house. His wife, Adelina, teaches the sister missionaries how to make tortillas. 

Charles and Glenda Young, along with their granddaughter, reside in Spanish Lookout. We enjoyed looking at family photos with them.  We were able to upload several old photos to familysearch.orgThese photos are of Charles and Glenda when they met in Santa Elena.  We were able to upload them and other photos to their family tree. Charles is open about the huge improvements he made in his life when he embraced the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

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Today in Primary we learned the song, Jesus Once Was a Little Child. It was fun to have the children stand next to the tape measure on the wall so they could see that Jesus was once a little child like they are. 

The message of the song is in the chorus:  

     So little children,

     Let's you and I,

     Try to be like him,

     Try, try, try.  

We like to shop at Helen Supermarket in San Ignacio. Lee, the proprietor, goes out of his way to be friendly to us and all his customers.

While we may not endorse the product on the sign, we do endorse Helen Supermarket!

The open house for the Rome Italy Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began this week on the other side of the world from us. Take a moment to "walk through" this exquisite house of the Lord.

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