YOU REALLY CANNOT DESCRIBE IT

President and Hermana Torres
Guatemala City North Mission

Later on Christmas Eve....11:00pm to be exact....we went to the home of President and Hermana Torres. They are serving as the mission president for the Guatemala City North Mission. They are from Utah and we love them. Hermana Torres opened her home to the Senior Missionaries so that we could have traditional TAMALES. Can we say excitement? They were great...actually wrapped in corn husks with fantastic masa......she even had sweet ones with fruit flavored masa.


The official reason that we were at the Torres' was that at midnight on Christmas Eve EVERYONE shoots off fireworks. My pyrotech was really excited to see this. We have been looking at fireworks booths with things on sell for over a month now. I think that all the families in Guatemala buy some sort of firework....even if it is only one or two.

View of the city from the roof

We went up to the roof of their 15 story apartment building a little before midnight. The fireworks started going off....and then at midnight it was the most amazing thing that I have ever seen. They are really no words to describe the display. Literally thousands of fireworks going into the air....and I don't mean the little ones. There were big fireworks that riveled our Fourth of July or Disneyland displays. Wayne of course was fascinated.

The displays went on for about an hour....we were trying to find out the meaning of the tradition...and the only thing that we could come up with was the new star in the heavens. It would have been fun to be flying over the city or trying to land at the airport for that hour!!

Here is an attempt to show what the display looked like to us. As far away as we could see....you could see fireworks going into the air. It was truly spectacular.