Temple Closing

The temple has been closed for two weeks and I feel a little out of myself.  I thought I would enjoy this more.  We have been busy.  The first week we didn’t do much as I was dealing with my thumb and we had meetings with the new president and some of the sister missionaries.

I had surgery on the 30th of July.   I had to find a new doctor and I found one at Mt. Sinai.  She was just a subway stop away.  I was only there about 30 minutes.  She cut off the growth and then cauterized the blood vessels.  It has been almost a week and it is healing nicely even though it is ugly.   After my surgery, we went to see Greenwich village and Washington Square Park.  I loved the Park!

Wednesday we got up and headed out to see The African Burial Grounds, a graveyard and memorial discover when building.  From there we went to City Hall Park and walked around in the government area seeing courthouses and government buildings.  We went to China town but couldn’t figure out where things were and decided to go to The Federal Hall Memorial Building but when we went to the subway we were turned around and ended up in Brooklyn so we decided to just come home.

Thursday we slept in and were lazy in the morning and then went to visit Central Park. We got a map and planned out but discovered it needs to be multiple trips.  We did go visit Belvedere Castle with an awesome view of the park and city skyline.

Friday we went to another immigration hearing for Amneris Puscasu.  The ceremony was better organized and it went quickly.  The Judges comments were more concise and I found it moving.  We were in Lower Manhattan where Jeff and I had wandered on Wednesday.  Congratulations Sister Puscasu.