Miscellaneous "stuff" about the mission:
Dogs in Chile: There are tons of dogs in Chile. La Union is over run with them. And they run after the cars trying to play chicken with us. However at home, the fence keeps out most of them. All except for a little mutt who was wandering away from home and found he fit under our fence. We tried to shoo him away but he gave us the "you don't really want to chase me away, do you?" look. I had to be very firm with him and sent him home.
Chilean drivers have figured out the narrow streets and parking. They park on the curb!
So Keith is trying to fit in. You will notice that the curb is under the car!
This is La Turbina. It is a turbine (you guessed that, of course) that creates electricity for La Union. Beautiful!
Caupolican Capilla (Caupolican Branch Church) is where we go to church when we go to our "home" ward. Just like the Keating Ward, it is on Caupolican Street.
Hermanas Rameriz and Clark teach me Spanish every Friday at 10:30. They are very helpful.
Christmas photo of the missionaries that we work with -- a fun party!
Senior Missionary couples are called misionaros matrimonio (married missionaries), frequently called matrimonios. Here we all are on a p-day to Valdivia. Eighteen months ago there waws only once couple. The mission president asked for more and was told that they only replaced senior couples, that a mission didn't get "extras." When the president told the missionary department that he had only one senior couple that worked in the mission office, they decided that he could have more due to the influx in missionaries! So now we have five (the office couple went home two weeks after this photo was taken). Nice people! Very helpful to newbies!
Yay for pictures! Makes it a little more real for those of us stuck at home during your adventure. :-) Love you!
ReplyDeleteGlad to see pictures on your site. Chile is beautiful...even if they do have a lot of dogs. The Pulsipher's also had a blog post about how many dogs are there. Must be true.
ReplyDeleteI think I would love that place, dogs and all! I'm an old softy and would have invited the dog to stay for dinner. I mean, look at his face! I guess he finally met his match :) As for parking on the curb, I do that already and without even thinking about it :) Love the pics and the post. Keep 'em coming-I attached this to Joan's because I didn't know how to comment...any clues?
ReplyDeleteWas able to do my own comment. Didn't need to attach to Joan's. Almost tech savvy-
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