Helping Elder Lake

 This bean is from the tree in the picture above.  We were parked at the morgue at the hospital that is only a few blocks from our home.  A man in our Branch passed away on that Sunday and we took Elder Lake ( who is the Branch President)  and his companion Elder Franscisco to the home to help the family.  It is the families responsibility to get the body to the morgue and then they have the funeral there the next day.  They do not embalm here and so the funerals are right away and not at the church but at the morgue.  They have a small area for the family and friends.  Then everyone gets into the back of a truck (or two or three) and drive to the cemetary.  Sometimes there is someone playing a drum as they drive there.  The people in the front truck hold a wooden cross up.  They often sing songs as they travel to the cemetary.

This is a picture of the road to the members house.  We are leaving on our way to the morgue.