Every morning during this tour, we’ve started off with a prayer from one of us and then, once the bus was underway, followed that prayer with a brief devotional thought from another member of the group. Yesterday, the devotional thought was offered by Miguel Vera, who actually grew up in Mexico City but now lives and works in Texas. For his brief remarks, he drew upon a 22 June 2018 article in the Church News by Gerry Avant that... Read more
I’m afraid that, owing to the demands of our travel schedule and other factors, I’ve been recounting our adventures somewhat out of order. I apologize for that. But it can’t really be helped. In fact, I’ll backtrack a little bit in this entry, yet again. On Friday, 1 November, we were up characteristically early. We had breakfast right on the shore of the remarkably pretty Lake Catemaco and, across the water in the distance, were able to see Cintepec,... Read more
Today, we drove out to Teotihuacán to see the enormous pre-Columbian complex there that includes the massive Pyramid of the Sun and the almost equally huge Pyramid of the Moon. It is located about twenty-five miles to the northeast of downtown Mexico City. The original name of the city is unknown, as is the ethnicity of those who built it. The name Teōtīhuacān was given to it by the Nahuatl-speaking Aztecs centuries after its fall, which seems to have... Read more
You are, sadly, running out of opportunities to see Six Days in August on a big screen. That’s deeply unfortunate and I wish it weren’t the case. But some of you—and some of your friends, ward members, and relatives—still have a shot at it. And the BYU football team has a bye this weekend, so Saturday night is open. Do you get my drift? Today has been a long day, with a lot of traveling. I’ll report on it... Read more
I’m still attempting to catch up with my blog, reporting from this Interpreter Foundation educational tour. Our tour manager, Blake Allen, had attempted several times to make contact with the branch president in Panajachel, on the shore of Lake Atitlán, but was unable to do so. He tried again while we were there, but to no avail. We had hoped to attend church at Atitlán on Sunday, 27 October but, in the end, we decided not to do so... Read more
I continue my attempt to dig myself out of the hole into which I fell when my computer failed me last week. That is, I’m trying to catch up on my reports from this Interpreter Foundation educational tour to Guatemala and Mexico. We spent the first part of our first full day in Guatemala by visiting a huge open-air relief map of the country, showing its mountainous highlands and its flat jungle lowlands. Very helpful, much in the way... Read more
I’m still making an effort to catch up on the reporting of this Interpreter Foundation educational tour: Last Thursday, 24 October, on the morning after the catastrophic computer failure that silenced me for the better part of a week, we spent most of the day walking around a small portion of the Guatemalan Parque nacional Tikal. The ruins of Tikal, which were occupied from approximately 600 BC until about AD 750, are, quite simply, stunning. The site is surrounded by... Read more
I’m going to make a serious effort to catch up on my reporting from this Interpreter Foundation educational tour in Guatemala and Mexico. I’m several days behind because of the mysterious computer malfunction that crippled me from Wednesday night until last night, Monday night. But I think that I can compensate for that, more or less. We arrived on Sunday night in Tapachula, a city that is located in the far southeast of the state of Chiapas, México, near... Read more
To the nearly giddy delight of several folks on the Peterson Obsession Board, Six Days in August has, thus far, considerably underperformed our hopes and expectations at the box office. As a consequence, it will probably not last much longer in theaters. So, if you’ve been a’thinkin’ about seein’ it someday on a big screen, you might want to take action very soon in that regard. On the Obsession Board, explanations for the film’s relatively unimpressive performance in theaters... Read more
For the next two weeks or so, I’m not going to be able to spend as much time on my computer as I typically do. I won’t be able to manage this blog as well as I usually do, or to respond as quickly to emails and comments. I’ll miss all or almost all of the criticism and mockery aimed my way at the Peterson Obsession Board. I’ll be otherwise occupied, and I won’t always have access to the... Read more
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