It looks like I will be picking my first cherry tomato this week, with many more to follow in coming days and weeks.  The seasons are all different here.  I am enjoying tangerines, oranges and grapefruit fresh picked and shared by the ROC missionaries who live in this area.  Also, fresh-picked grapefruit from the tree in the front yard of the house, in front of my casita.  I do love citrus fruit.  Scott and Julie also have lemons, tangelos, and oranges.

I am learning to appreciate and enjoy the landscape here.  There are deciduous trees: pecan trees outside my kitchen window, and some others.  Also, seeing leaves that are turning color--not the vibrant, reds, oranges, yellows in the West and East, but pretty.  Also, cloud formations and the skies in general are different, and very pretty.  The other day, the clouds were painted across the sky in bright orange--like an abstract painting.

I continue to have family history success.  A week ago I found the family of a man I've looked for for many years.  His name is Henri Devette.  I had a marriage record with the name of his wife but had never been able to find anything on him.   Through the Geneanet website, which I had checked many times without success, I found his family tree, with names and dates of his parents, grandparents and great grandparents.  Also he and his wife had two additional daughters to the one from whom I am descended.  A wonderful woman in Belgium is related to Henri through one of the two daughters I didn't know about, and has done the research.

This Wednesday will mark 6 months since I entered the MTC--1/4 of the way through my mission.  That doesn't seem possible.  Time goes by so quickly.  I continue to see reasons the Lord called me to serve this mission.  It is a choice blessing and I am learning and growing.  One month from yesterday I will be 83 years old.  Isn't it wonderful that we can continue to learn and grow, no matter how old we are!