Verbs

I was trying to learn one word of spanish today. I pick work because it keep come up in what were doing. Brent gave me the word. We did scripture study and I used to word. We were going to work so I said the word only to be told it was the wrong word. I lost it at that moment. I went for a long walk on sore knee. Why is the word alway different went I go to use it. WHY WHY Brent did not learn he word uses. I hit a hard wall. When we finial talk. I figure out it was because of tenses. I thought English tenses were hard now I get to learn spainish tenses. Still wondering if I ever learn enought spainish to talk to someone with out wondering what being talk about.
End of a day wondering why The lord send me here.

banana split to chicken pocks

We wrote letter and sent them off today. We went down to the market just for fun and found a ice cream store and had a banana split to eat. Something fun for a friday night. We had just got home and one of the members call from the hospital. They had a got a sick kid.and needed some help. We went down to the hospital to help them. It looks like she has a week heart like her mother, but we are not sure .We was surprised that it was not his wife because she has been vary sick lately. We decided to clean our apartment , then pick up cookie and some soda pop for the clean up party at the church. We burn some of the thorn bushes outside the church along with the trash that was scattered all lover the ground. Also we washed down all the chairs in the churchs. Alot of members show up to help clean up and it, it was nice to have some help. I told some of the girl they could drive if they help so went for a little driving lessen. We had a big leader meeting Sunday in culiacan with the general leader from Salt Lake. I learn a lot if I only could speak Spanish to them. They show us how to help people do there calling and give encouragement.
Monday time to take Mauro to his doctor appointment. Got a phone call Liberato in general hospital and has been from Saturday night. He finial saw the doctor at noon today. Found out he got the chicken pock. He is a year older then dad this is going to be hard on him. We took him home. He going to be contagious for two more days. the neighbor going to keep an eye on him. We visit a moment and the went to take Mauro home. We had family home evening with his family and the missionary. One of the missionary has not had family home home evening before tonight. We play the new s paper game after the lessen. Everyone was laughing. We end with the pioneer pray.
We took the missionary home. WE treated them to a hot dog dinner at little stand. There a pretty little park in front of there apartment. They said every Thursday morning it was the main market place for the area around the town. We had a fun visit with the missionary.
end of a chicken pock day.

Letters Only

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Elder & Sister Brent Lee Buhler
c/o Farm Management Company
139 East South Temple Suite 110
Salt Lake City, UT 84111

Sugar and Spice

We did two more road cut but the complex seem almost dead so it made it easy to make the last two road cut. We had two helper to dig the trench around the fence of the complex. The dirt was soft so it went fast. This is a large complex with the trench along the fence we put in a total of aI thousand feet of pipe. We got the trench all buried. They framed the place for the presser pump and got a cement pad down. The 16 water faucet are up out of the ground and cement will put around them. We order the last parts to finish the project.

I gave two cake class this week. We talk to the sister Sunday about learning to do cakes. They want the class this week both wards. They were so excited. I made me feel good to do class for them. We ask that they invite friends and even less activity member that might not hear about it. We went to the first class at 4:00 no one was there except the Janitor moping the floor. We were thinking we got the wrong date. The Janitor call the RS president to check. She was coming so we waited for her. While we were waiting someone else come. She was worry no all the material were there that I ask them to bring. I brought everything what they bring would only help with the next class. We got started about 4:45. Made a German chocolate cake, upside down pineapple cake, and another fruit cake. Show them how to make a butter cream frosting. Everyone enjoy themselves. Even Dad, ask him to clean something and he went like he was licking it. We were 5 minute late the next day and they were already there for the class. We did the same thing but they went smoother except what I forgot to do like the brown sugar on the pineapple. The cake bake just right. They had two friends come with one sister so fun. Went it got slow Dad sang them a song.
end of a thankful day to be down here THANKS

the rest of the story....farm

When we was ready to say good buy to Mauro I gave him a hug and told him that I would be back in a week to check up on him. As I went to leave I turned around to find Connie and there she was in the arm's of Mauro he could not let go he was crying so hard, it was the first time that he had showed any emotion at all, and as I look around the room every one was crying , I don't know if it was to end of a long day or that it was the end of a long journey. I know one thing you should never under estimate the power of a hug , it is the window into the soul of a person. It will be a long time before I forget this moment and this chance we have to serve the lord here. Their simpleness and sincerity is overwhelming. And if it was not for my children and the sacrifice that they are doing every day we would not be able to do this. I know we don't say it enough but thanks you all for the love and long distant hug 's that you give us every day. LOVE AND HUGS MOM AND DAD

Meeting the Missionary

Clean house went shopping. We hurry to go meet the missionary out at Mauro town so they can meet him. They caught ride so we waited for them. Brent said maybe we were to meet at were we left them. We drove to check. Drove back. No missionary. I went to check at bus stop and went by some road they were walking down one of the roads. We pick them up and went looking for the house which I could not find with out going back to way we went in the first time we went to Mauro house. We were just about to do that when who knock on the window San Francisco. He took us to the house. We visited with them. They met the missionary in the area and found out were church was. They did the first lesson for one of Mauro kids. We took them then out to the road. Went back to visit. Took some flash card I made and gave them to Juana. To write and practice with the cards. We brought potato and some onion. O I a most forgot the bag of oranges. We head to our casa. They got a circus in town. We went to look at the animals decide to go see it. We had some fun at the circus.
End of tiger roaring Day

Oil and water do not mix

Put to more Road cut so glad they got ditch er on tracker they cut the Road. We got the pipe in while the potato track are not come so work is slower on the farm. Brent forgot to count the road cut for the pipe he order so we were short and have to order some more pipe. Got all the ditch dug for the pipe around the complex. Got all the pipe we got glue. I went over to help paint the complex. Mix some paint up. We had two bucket that look cream on was darker then the other. I use what I thought was the oldest paint only to find it was oil. I continue because it cream color it look when it dries. One of the other guy come over told me it was not cream so we stop. Lucky we had some paint thinner to clean up with. What a mess. Dad was going to put the two bucket of paint together. One was oil and the other water base we are so glad he did not. They use more water base on the building except on the metal frame of window and metal doors. I know what were painting with and what colors. They are going to get us more paint.
End of a mess day

Traffic

We got across another area of the complexes were traffic would go. Brent got a ditch tractor before he went out to work to dig the line across the area. Only two other tractor need to cross the area . The big potato track will not be coming till Monday so if we can get this done. We got it end. Ditch run half way around the complex. Run out of Glue. Finish tomorrow. Going fast. We had lunch with one of the member and they invited one of there less active member to come to lunch. We had a wonderful visit with them. Got Home about4:00 so we could walk down to the bank cash a check for help we gave Mauro. Got Home time to got to Wal mart to see if that work and we got rent money. WE needed a reference number. WE home to let Angela know. Got the information back to Wal mart before office close to try get the Money. WE got money to pay the rent. Know we work it out just did not know how.
End of the day knowing God love us

Farm

We finial made it back to the farm. They got the supply for us. We went out with edwardo at 6 am Dad having a hard time with that one. We got the water system started. We went a cross the very busy front Road got half way across found we were missing a fitting. WE quit for the day. They bury the road because a big double truck was in at the complex. Tue we had our missing piece. Started digging across the road to put in the pipe but the back hoe broke. Had some help to hand dig it out. Got the pipe finish across the road. Dad help the worker do some hand digging. We quit early need to check at the office about money. Mauro can come home from the hospital.
We found out that Visa has close the card use in Mexico because they are fighting over the cost of the peso. So we can not get money that way. The people at the office said they could help a little if we need it. We had 1650. It Cost 1535. The medicine was 105 I found five in change. We had Mauro out of the hospital. We were going to take them out to the Liberato's house but they wanted to go home to their house in Popado #7. They gave us some money for gas and for the toll which they did so we took them home. There family was so glad to see them. I gave Mauro a hug and told him that we would be back in a week to check up on him as I was leaving I look back for Connie and there she was in the arm 's of Mauro. He was huging she so hard that he could not let go because he was crying so hard,it was the first time that he had showed any emotion at all. We stay little bit to visit with them. WE went out to the road to head back. Dad spot the missionary just down the road head farther down the road. We went to pick them up and found out they were there in the little town doing missionary work we told them about the family and them want to hear the gospel. We drop them off at a baptism. We very happly head home. The Lord help us have the money we need to get maura out of the hospitial with and we got a hold of the missionary.

President of the Mission Meeting

Went out to group for church. Brent felt he need to check on one of are inactive sister. She was on her way to church with her two drunken son trying to keep her home. She just ask if Brent come to take her to church he just said yes. The two son saw Brent and left there mother alone. The church group decide to do church in the afternoon about 2:00. Took people home. Got food for Juana and some clothes. We went to our ward sacrament meet to catch the bishop to turn receipt for med bill for Mauro. He had to go to work before the meeting was over. Check to see if I'm still doing the bread class fri at 4:00 for the sister. Left to visit Mauro. He doing better and wants to go home. Check with the Doctor about him going home. They figure Tuesday. We hurry back to the church to meet with the mission President. Got a call in the meet someone has a sick child and wants a ride. We slip out of the meeting. Went to help them. Took them out to little town in distance. She want to check with relative out there to see if it was some thing to worry about. She said she would be fine. Took them back home. We went back to our meeting. They worried about the youth in the area. Planing a big dance activity in June. Got home little before eight when the kids get on the computer. Dad was talking with them. I got on for a moment and had to go to bathroom did not get back on. Brent was having to much fun talking with the family.
End busy Sunday

Family

Went to pay the TV and internet today. We ask about the internet while we were there. They sent out a guy on Monday. Went to see if we could get money out of the ATM. We could not. Can not check with Angela the internet is down. Wonder what I'm to learn from this. When we got home lay down for a nap. The guy came to fix the internet. Brent wake me up. We can talk to the family. Landlord invited to his business party. The head of he school will be there along with some other worker. We went at 8:00 and were early. They came about nine. They have a hard wood they use to barbque on down here. They put chick in lime and salt, and some rib stake in lime and salt also. They cook them on wood. It was really good eating. Did green peper on the grill and onion on the gill. We play the new paper game with them. They laugh and laugh. We play the rymth game with them they enjoy it. We try to go home. They ask to stay longer of course Dad was happy to stay longer. We talk about when people first fell in love with the one they married. Some would not tell us the story. Brent told our story of course. They want Brent to sing and finial got me to sing some songs with him. Finial around 2:00 they let us go home.
End of party Day

Cake and a Lost toe

Check on Mauro. Angela told us the Business cell phone our down at home. we need to fax a letter which I forgot to do because take Mauro. We wrote a letter and took to the office to Fax it.
The Blog has been hard for us to write on because it kick us off with more people using it take me three day to get the toe write. Brent found a way to get it publish. He was feel good and want to read the comment and could not. It ask if he want to work off line. He say yes because he want to read the comments not knowing he been kick off the Internet. We lost use of the Internet. He work with it for a while and could not get it up. I try what little I know and could still not get into the Internet. I cry because it our link to the family. was lost
Jesus call to give his wife a blessing. Brent told him when we were head out but he could not come. Brent ask if Carlos could help in place of him and he said say. We stop by Carlos house to see if he might be home. He was home he taken the day off to rest. He glad came with us to give a blessing. We took him home and stop by the little store out there to get flour for him. He was so happy not to bike it home.
I had a cake baking class at 4:00 pm at the other stake center in Los Mochis. We hurry home to get the thing for class. We went and got thing set up. Only 5 sister were there . Brent went to check on Mauro because he getting his toe was shuldu taken off today. He got there just as they were taking him to surgery. They do have a surgery room the guy in the bed next to Mauro was just having some dead skin around his cut off toe taken off. Brent talk to him earlier. Telling it better to take a toe off then to have a leg taken off. The toe been a problem for five year now. Brent said he look ready for surgery and ask Brent if he could up him up on to the table. Brent said it the first time he see him really smile when he came out of surgery.
We end up with thirty people in class for the cake making. Brent left and I did not have a few things but the other sister did. It was so fun and went so well. Everyone including me enjoy the class. Show them how to make a cheap mix better so they could us it. Show them the German receipt for frosting. They love it. We did a butter cream frosting for them. I show them my glaze and flavor it with tang. The tang down here is in little packages like kool Aid. It took about 2 1/2 hour for the class. Brent got there just in time turn the pineapple upside down cake out of the pan. It came out looking wonderful.
End with a Up left to some hard days

X-Rays

We went to the corner to get Ortilla and Juana from the bus. We took them stright over to the bus. I went up to visit Mauro in his room. The room in the hospital have three bed in them. The beds are narrow and small but most of the people are narrow and small. There one plastic chair by the bed to sit in. The sheet are flat and do not stay on the bed. The mattress is foam and hard with a plasic cover. there are four room to a nurse station and two bathroom out by the nurse station. on each side. You have to bring food for the person who help the patient. The nurse do not change bed pans. The nurse all wear old fashion white nurse uniforms.

The family try to get his medine for the day but only had two hundred so Brent went to help get the medine for the day. Brent set up getting Mauro X-ray from the hospitial. They want him to get x-ray out side the hospitial. Hoping to sent him home? Brent paid to get the x-ray from the genial hospial right there. We were waiting for that then we take him home. Brent sent me to get money so he could go home when the x-ray were taken. It was getting late in the day and they close the hospital down at 5 o'clock. You fight to get in at that time if you have too. I was sent out side with the money to pay the bill and get him out. Brent came and got me. We went up to get him out of the hospitial. The doctor went by brent three time before Brent stop him and he look at the x-ray. Only to tell us he was staying the night they were going to take the toe off. And the biggest problem we had that day was to get the xray taken. After for trips to the nurse we found out they had the wrong name,they had put down the Maria not Mauro, se they can do miricals they turned my man into a WOMAN. Any way we had a good laugh about it

Ortilla want to see someone before we took her home. We wonder though the town to little house. Were she was to read some legal paper for someone. Did not work so we took her home.
End of a long ? day

Toe

Mauro is still having problem with his toe. He got his paper and need to take them to the government office. We got plans to take him to the hospital again. We got into the office fast and the paper work done. We went then to a free clinic with his paper that will give him help. He got in to see these Medic. Who sent him back over to the general hospital were we been before this time. Everyone ahead of us seem to be putting them in the hospital. Mauro got put into the hospital. Ortilla had to talk them into putting him in because he had all his paper work. Brent was up with him. The bed next to him they were taking the guy toes off. Brent was talking to the nurses and got sent out of the room. Mauro want to go home. Ortilla had to talk him into staying and getting his toe fix. Juana stay with him. We took everyone home. We try calling the family to let them know what was going on with Mauro. We could not seem to get a hold of them. We head home. End of Tuesday.

We mean Ortilla at the busy market and took her over to the hospitial. They want to do a test on the bone in Mauro toe. They take a piece of it and sent it to be tested. Ortilla stay with Mauro and we took Juana to visit her family. They need to know what going on with there father. We head out toward Ahome a town. She alway ride the bus there. We ask one person about going there he sent to the freeway in a wierd way. We keep going a little father down the road to a servstation. Ask the man there and he sent us to the freeway. We went to the freeway.

sick but not done in

TOday we srarted the day out early because today is sunday and we have alot to do. First of all we stoped buy the big family with Gregorio and Carlos. The first thing we look for is the little kids running for the gate to greet us. Only 3 of the kids was ready so I knew that we had a PROBLEM. Gregorio family of 5 was not ready.There has been a proplem between the two familys for a while, since I gave them tin for there house,any way Gregrio said that was going to go to town to sell a tire, SO we gather up Carlos and his family and away we went. We were the first to get there so we went in and started to get things going. Somebody had cleaned up the chuch and it looked realy great. We got things going with the meeding, and half through the meeding we had to add sets to get every body in, it was great. We ended up with 23 people.We decided to stay out there to take Otilia and her family to Mochis for the visit of the new temple Pres.To kill some and not waste it we went to Monica house to se how she was doing,when we got there she was no where to be found. Just then her son showed up and told us that she was at the tienda down the road. So we headed there to find her and there she was needing help to haul groceries to the house. She was still comblaning about her leg so I called Brother VALENCIA to give her a blessing. When was done with that we pick up the family of Olivia and headed to Mochis.The Pres. wife spoke first a finnish with a great story and here it is.There was man that thought his life with his family was over,they couldn't get along and was fighing all the time. So he decided to change the way he treated his wife and children for the next two weeks. Every time she asked him to do something he just did it and did not argue with her,and when she needed to go to the store he valunteer to watch the kids and come to find out he started to enjoy the time with kids and also enjoyed being around the wife more and more. And at the end of the second week the wife remembering that she had got to the doctor earler that week.And being bewilder by his behavor for the last little bit,ask him.[am I dying] He simple said [no you are not dying]it's just that I have just started to live. She also talk about the fact that your spouse is eather your greates enemy or your greates friend. When he spoke gave alot of statistics of marriage and divorce. One of the bigges and the nomber one reason for divorce is money. He said that the differance between a rich man and a poor man is one dollar,when the rich man has spent his money he has a dollar left over ,and when the poor man has spent his money he still owes a dollar

Other side of the City

We got return letter written for the ward at home. Went out to give another lessen for the students. They all work at different speed just trying to keep them together. We went to another RS in the other stake here in Los Mochis. I did a picture. It so fun to be with the sister. Ask if they want to learn about cake. Next Friday will be cake class with them. Looking forward to it they were so fun to be with. Every ward has a different spirit. Love the people. Rosales is getting a cake class tomorrow around 4:00. One of the guys at work is from the branch set up the cake class. I'S been quite a week, after mom got sick I got sick. But I took Lillian's advice and took some benidril and stop the cold in it's tracks. I'm feeling much better thanks kids
end of uplifting fun day

a Name

We taught some Adults how to write there first name. One lady keep look at her name after she wrote it a couple of time. She smiled knowingly at her name. What in a name the world. One gal keep saying nothing would stay in her head but wrote her name to day without looking at it on another page. How much of who we are is in our name we carry thought this life.
The farm finish a state of art potato cellar. Water cooler and air circulating under the floor. It look wonderful. Everyone from around the world been coming to look at it. They dedicated it today. We miss the fun but had fun looking around.
Brent getting sick with what I had so hopeful we can fight it before he get sick. I starting to feel better so went back to the house of Rafaela, she is the one that said that i was hitting her hard about going back to church so I thought that I should go back and ask for her forgiveness. Went we got there we talk for a moment and I told her that I was sorry that I was so rough on her. Then she said "did they make you come and apologize to me", of course I didn't know who they were,so I said yes, and that was the end of it. Now the next thing is the hard part to explain, Connie had see them playing hop scotch the last time we were there , so she challenge the lady and her kids to a game. That's right you guest it we are now playing hop scotch. They play it a little different here, you jump out at the top to turn around and you can put your hand on the ground to pick up the piece that you throw. I TELL YOU WHAT it was all I could do to keep your mother from calling the little girl a cheater[ who was the first one to go]and throw her out of the game. Any way I told Connie that it is probable the way they play it down here, since it has been 50 years since we played it last. Any way we found out that it is hard to hop,skip and jump, but we done it, and Rafaela did it and we had a great time doing it.I was a little sore, that night but you know what, I sure did sleep better. AND it's nice to know we still have a little kick left in us.
End of day thinking about my name and what it mean to me.Amen to that.