After returning from El Salvador, we planned on just staying home and getting ready for the temple to open on Tuesday, the 15th. However, President Burk called and invited us to visit three museums with a few of the missionaries on Wednesday, the 9th. Of course we decided to go. All three of the museums are located in the Universidad Francisco Marroquin.
It is in a beautiful setting about 20 minutes from our apartments. The grounds were amazing. I just wish that pictures could let you see all the trees and flowers.
We weren't allowed to take pictures in the exhibits. The first museum was the Museo Popol Vuh. It had artifacts from the many archaeological digs around Guatemala describing the life of the early Mayan civilization. It is nice that the museum had the inscriptions in both Spanish and English so we could understand all that we read.
The next museum was the Museo Ixchel Del Traje Indigena. I think that it was my favorite cause it displayed and explained the clothing and how it is made. Ixchel is the goddess of fertility and weaving. The fabric and colors were amazing.
The last museum was called Quahquechollan, el lienzo de conquista. It was one of the large drawings that explained the conquest of the Spaniards through the eyes of the Mayan people living at that time. It was fun to learn to read their language through drawings. We spent over 4 hours visiting the museums. It was a fun morning.
We are still trying to get all the washing done and the grocery shopping done from being gone all week so we spent the afternoon taking care of these. But we were ready to head out again Thursday with the same group to visit the Archaeological Park Kaminaljuyu.
This archaeological dig is right in the center of the city of Guatemala. It only has a couple of places uncovered but plans to uncover more starting in 2015. The Mayan's use this park daily for religious ceremonies.
Each color represents a different thing
Our guide had no idea what the big cigars represented.
They are forbidden to use animals anymore.
This is the other part that they have uncovered, it too has a lot more to be done to really see the whole building.
Inside of the building that is not totally dug out yet.
Our group, Los Burks, Los Barneys, Los Thompsons, Hermana Tanner, Hermana Cabelleros.
President Thompson spent the next couple of days cooking. He loves cooking and I love that he loves it. I do the dishes, usually. He made us chile de Dodd, chuckwagon casserole, jello, and fruit cocktail cake. The frige and freezer are full and ready for the new week.
On Saturday night, Lon woke up freezing and thought that maybe he was coming down with a bug. However, on Sunday morning he felt good and went to church. During Sacrament meeting, he again got the chills and went home, crawled in bed and slept for a couple of hours. He stayed in bed most of the day and felt much better on Monday morning. We figured that he had a 24 hour flu of some kind. Monday morning he noticed a small rash on his left leg, but it didn't hurt or itch so he just ignored it. We went to the temple at 2 with the temple presidency to make sure that everything was ready for Tuesday's opening. We were so excited to be starting our new assignment and this new mission in the temple presidency. After being on his feet for a couple of hours, his leg started to bother him. He pulled up his pant leg to show the President his rash, and was startled to find that it had more than doubled and the leg was swollen. We came home and called the CCM nurse, Hermana Burbidge. She came over, looked at the leg, called Dr. Craigan for conformation, and drove us to the hospital.
Lon was admitted and we got to his room about 8 PM on Monday the 14th. He has a bad case of cellulitis. He was started on IV antibiotics.
Thursday morning, the rash has stopped growing and seems to be localized, but still swollen and hot.
I have been blessed all week with rides to and from the hospital. I really enjoy the rides home cause a different group of missionaries come each night to visit with President Thompson first, then take me home with them. This new challenge has been difficult as we feel so guilty not being in the temple and President Burk and President Roberts and their wives are having to fill in for us. But we feel the blessings of many prayers in our behalf and we are being taken care of with such love. That is our news for this week. We are in the hands of our loving Heavenly Father and we pray that we are facing our challenges with courage and patience. This mission has definitely been full of surprises. We send our love to all. You are always in our thoughts and prayers. Dad and Mom, Grandpa and Grandma, Lon and Nancy
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