Mexican food celebration!

Kept busy at the home office this week.  Always lots of real property transactions to deal with.  I finally got the Property Report back from local counsel in PNG for the temple site that’s planned for there.  The Badili chapel location in Port Moresby is where the temple will be built.  The land is subject to a 99 year lease in favor of the Church.  The land is on a hill top and will be very visible in the area.  The existing chapel will be torn down and the new temple and a new chapel will be built on the site.  The land will still need to be rezoned to accommodate the new construction. 

Also, the parties have now signed the Offer to Purchase contract I drafted for a new temple site in one of the island nations that hasn’t been announced yet.  It will likely be announced at next month’s General Conference.  My goal was to lock the land up contractually prior to the announcement,  so that the sellers wouldn’t be tempted to raise the price or back out of the deal.  We now enter into a 90 day due diligence period, with the closing of the transaction scheduled by the end of the year. 

As to our activities, Tuesday night we went over to the Polls apartment to watch the BYU-Navy game which BYU won 55-3.  Thursday night we invited senior missionaries over to our place to watch the newly released movie, Mulan, and for visiting and finger foods.  Saturday morning I dropped by my office for a few hours to catch up a little on the work.  Then Alisa and I drove about 25 minutes to the new Taco Bell that opened here 6 months ago.  It is the first one in the country with more planned.  The prices were much higher than in the US, and they skimped on the meat some, but otherwise it was pretty much the same experience as in the US.  The Taco Bell was part of the Lynn Mall which we hadn’t been to before, so we walked around the mall to check out the stores, reminded me of the Visalia Mall.  Cora turned 8, so we visited with her by phone to wish her a happy birthday.  In the afternoon we took naps, then I walked to Countdown supermarket to buy some goodies, then we walked to Steve and Luann Peterson’s apartment down by the beach where we had  been invited for a chicken enchilada and taco soup dinner along with the Romneys. 

No Church again today, so we’ll probably partake of the Sacrament at home again and do Come Follow Me.  At 5 p.m. we have 4 YSA’s coming over for dinner, chicken enchiladas again!  I guess I’ve had enough Mexican food this weekend to last me until we return home in 2½ months!