A Quick Family Update

RAFAEL--just went to Hondorus, got back less than a week ago.  This time he went with a different medical group to do ortho surgery on adults.  He LOVED it.  The group stayed at an orphanage of 500 children from babies through teenagers run by the Catholic Church. 

ME--not much has changed.  I'm busy assisting my parents, particularly my mom with her cancer, and typing a bit each day, trying to pull an occasional weed and still enjoying prep'g meals for my family.

TONY--is not attending school this semester, even though G&G offered to cover his tuition.  He's working at Vivant in Utah County in the solar division as a designer, doing well and just got a promotion to lead designer, which includes a nice pay increase.

VICTOR--attending school at Dixie in St. George, loving it, having too much fun I think.

JARED--is serving a mission in the Barcelona Spain Mission, currently 10 days at his first site in Castellon de le Plana, a coastal city.  He likes his companion (thank you Lord) and it's just the two of them in a nice apartment, plus two sisters in the city of just over a half million.  His first day there they traveled two hours by train to district meeting in Valencia (so there are 10 missionaries total in the Valencia District).  He attended almost six weeks at the Madrid MTC and loved it, except didn't really hit it off with his companion, but every Saturday his district (and they would comp changes on Saturday) would travel three miles by subway to a park for two hours to mingle among the natives and practice speaking and sharing a message.  I love how they are immersed in the culture immediately, plus on P-day, Thursday, they would go on field trips to museums, city points of interest like the Real soccer stadium.

Well, that's enough for now.  I'll try to get back soon, fingers crossed.