Hernán Cortés built his palace in 1530 just south east of the Mexica capitol of Tenochitlán which he called Cuernavaca (horned cow). What is left of his palace, having gone through hundreds of years of restoration, is the city museum of modern day Cuernavaca. Today the same city houses the Mission Office of the México Cuernavaca Mission that extends south from Cuernavaca to Acapulco on the Pacific Coast. President and Sister Ávila, and their Sammy spend three of the four weeks each month traveling outside of Cuernavaca. We scheduled a presentation of the Manual de Salud Misional to the Cuernavaca missionaries and were invited to stay with the Ávilas. We enjoyed a thoroughly marvelous weekend.
This is the Mission Home where we are invited to stay any time we are in town even if the Ávilas aren't home, which is most of the time.
We travelled down with another missionary couple, George and Judy Sloan. Her parents were missionaries here years ago and had always wanted to visit Cuernavaca.
The very old main cathedral downtown where we watched a Mariachi Mass- very fun!
We had lunch with the Sloans in this beautiful park restaurant- Las Mañanitas.
We visited Tepotzlan, a Mexican Magic town just outside Cuernavaca. This is a very interesting mural depicting the history of the town made with seeds and beans only. George and I tried Corn-on-the Cob (elote) ice cream.
This is Presidente Ávila and his wife, Hermana Ávila and son Sammy. Wonderful people. She has been one of the wives that has really taken on the job of Mission Doctor. She calls me a lot and it has been a joy getting to know her over the phone and now to have met her in person was a real treat. They took off a day from mission president work and took us to Xochicalco. This is an important pre-hispanic site that flourished during the Toltec period after the fall of Teotihuacan and before the rise of the Mexica (Aztecs).
It is quite extensive, and only a small part restored. There is an amazing observatory. Look it up in Wikipedia.
2 comments:
What an experience you two are having. I really loved the historical aspect of travel there. I would love to be able to observe as it was hundreds of years ago.
Happy holidays to you both.
Your photograph shows amazing clarity.
Either you were guided to show up when the lighting was optimal,
or you hung around for a long time for the sun to cast shadows optimally.
Our best, Barbara and Owen
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