These are the Zaleta's who live in Tampico and want to serve a mission locally. They have helped out in the office for a few weeks as service missionaries and will begin their full-time service July 1. Today they surprised me with a bouquet of flowers for my birthday that was last week.
This afternoon we were invited to comida with a family that lives in Altamira. They are a strong family in the gospel except for the father who has never been baptized. He has listened to many missionaries but doesn't have the faith to stop drinking. YET.
The brother doing the BBQ needed to get into this picture.
Here is the sweet mother of the family who has been faithful in the church and would love her husband to figure it out. She loves the missionaries. Her family is faithful and are raising her grandchildren in the gospel.
Dad took a moment to joke a little with this brother to tell him how easy the actual baptism is. Not very long and very refreshing. He still wasn't convinced.
They had a huge bowl of marinated meat and just kept laying it over the hard wood coals. I must admit, it smelled heavenly.
I knew you would get a better idea of this if you could hear them speaking.
These are the 4 elders that are serving in the ward. Two of them don't serve in this area but got permission to come to the comida with us. The two American elders, Elder Cook and Elder Jensen, will leave the mission 5 days before we do.
It's tortillas filled with melted cheese, guacamole, and the meat. They also always serve a pork and beans type thing in a cup. It can be 108 degrees outside and they'll serve this soupy pork and beans. You immediately start to sweat..... more.
Time to say goodbye to these wonderful people that we'll probably never see again in this lifetime.
Then it was on to the Centro de Tampico. We didn't think there would be time to go downtown again before we left but we were invited to view a dance presentation of folklorica dance. We had to walk by the churro stand and treated ourselves to our last authentic greasy churros. They give them to you in a brown paper bag with sugar in it to shake all over your hot churros.
Who knows how often they change the large vat a oil. It's probably good we only ate them about 8 times in 3 years.
Even for the little girls the skirts are made of yards and yards of fabric to give them plenty of skirt to swing around.
It's quite an art to learn to do that with a skirt. And you arms get quite the workout, too. They were adorable. It's awesome that they keep the traditional dances alive. It's so much a part of their culture.
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