Last week...This week

Leah is ready for church

Last week at church we decided to come home via the train station to show Ben his favorite moving vehicle...the choo choo train. At the train station, I pointed out to Ben about 20 bicycles in a row lined up. I asked him how many bikes there were and he replied "Fives." That's his way of saying alot. I guess to emphasize that there were really a lot of bikes this time, he repeated "Fives" but this time he said it as loud as he could. To him I guess raising the voice increases the quantity of the items he is counting!

Ben thought the trains were even better up front and after a quick tour of the station, we went on to catch the bus from a nearby bus station. As soon as we got off the bus on what we thought was a better than usual trip home from church we realized that one of our bags was missing!

Earlier that day the bag had contained Tony's wallet, but thank goodness he had taken that out of the bag. The bag did have both of our scriptures in it and a set of keys to our house. When we got home Tony called his friend who drove him back to the train station where we thought we left the bag. We had taken the bag out there to give the boys some "mints." Really these are Altoids that we brought with us from the US and often use as a last ditch effort to buy some good behavior from the boys.

Anyways, they asked around the train station and someone had found the bag and already taken it to the police station. They drove over there where Tony safely recovered his bag and all his belongings. To get his bag back however, he had to pay a finder's fee. He had to state the value of the belongings in the bag and pay 10%, which goes to the person who turned in the bag. Isn't that interesting?

This week when we were walking to church, we were stopped by a man who asked if we were from the US. We said we were, and then he asked if we were going to the Mormon church. We said we were. He then came over to us and started confronting us about our doctrine and how we needed to stay away from that church, that nobody there could help us. Tony was eager to talk to him and invite him to church. I was more worried he wanted to hurt us or steal something from us due to his strong tone of voice. Anyways, I was pretty shocked.

I threw in a couple of pictures of Leah in her church dresses.