Sea, Surf & Service

We started out the week (Monday) by taking the elders grocery shopping at Warehouse, then over to Van Den Tweel. We had considered going snorkeling at Chocogo Resort after this, but for some reason we didn't go. I believe they were sold out by the time we went over there.  We decided to go with all the missionaries over to the Donkey Sanctuary that afternoon, and it was so fun! We had the best time. We went through their cute little gift shop and checked it all out; then went on our way. The sisters drove their car, and we had the elders in the back of our car. We just slowly followed each other. I had brought carrots and some apples, which I thought was a lot - but none of the missionaries brought any food for the donkeys. So I distributed all I had amongst all of us, and wished I/we had brought more! There are over 960 donkeys in the sanctuary. It is basically free-range, and they feed and water the donkeys each day.  Also this week we did lots of work on real estate - we ha...

This week had us with our usual P-day, driving the elders around for groceries. Later in the day we took a little drive down to see if we could spot any nesting flamingos from the road (we couldn't) since this is the time when the moms and dads sit on their nest/egg  and keep it cool waiting for the baby flamingos to hatch. We saw a few random flamingos walking around, but the reserve is far away so as to not have people or things scare them. So we didn't see any flamingos en-masse, darn it! We did run into 4 donkeys, and I even got to feed them some carrots which I remembered to bring! 3 of them were together but they were super easily spooked (and looked a bit raggedy/scruffy); the other donkey was a bit more spruced up and looked like a handsome city donkey - and he came right on up to me when I rolled down my window and stuck the carrot out. He was super cool. :)  It's always a good day when we see donkeys!!  Besides this, it was a big real estate week. We went over t...