Fall in La Union, Chile

Fall in La Union, Chile -- 

Gorgeous!

Completos North American Style

Completos are a popular fast food here in Chile.  They are hot dogs with everything -- hence the name completos.  They are hots dogs with avocado, tomatoes, onions, relish, cheese, mustard, and ketchup or anything else you want to put on them.  When new missionaries come into the mission, they all meet at the mission home for training and completos for dinner.

I decided that we would have another cooking lesson for a preparation day so all the hermanas (sister missionaries) (except one set who couldn't make it, too bad) came to my little house -- yes, ten in my little house with Elder Stott and myself -- and we had a lesson in cooking chili dogs (North American completos).  Actually we had a lesson in making chili that we then put on our hot dogs along with mustard, ketchup, relish, and cheese (sound familiar?).  The Latinas were not quite sure about the taste to look at them, but they all ate two so it was a culinary success!  I also demonstrated making frosting for brownies that we had for dessert -- with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce.  The North American hermanas loved them also.  They hadn't had chili since they left the US.

Front row: Hermanas Steele, Castillo, Alonso

Middle row:  Hermanas Hernandez, Latham, Nunez 

Top Row:  Hermanas Hunsaker, Stott, and Spencer

Last night Elder York called and asked if I had a recipe for brownies and chocolate chip cookies.  He was getting lonesome for some food from home.  So I gave him mine and told him about the hermanas' cooking lessons.   Now some of the elders want a cooking lesson!  I have my doubts.  What I think they really want is an eating lesson!

A Dragon in La Union!

Yes, we have a dragon in La Union! 

This dragon is in front of the industrial school in La Union.  

We assume that the students created it for whimsy.  

It is a great dragon!

A New Home for a Set of Missionaries

The middle of March we helped clean a new-to-the-missionaries house in Caupolican, Elders Parsons and Torrez.  It is a two bedroom, one bathroom home with no kitchen except for a concrete sink that has seen better days.  The Poulsons, the mission office couple, had us help them with cleaning the house, putting up new curtains, putting together bunk beds (the house can hold four missionaries but only two are there right now), fixing problems like plumbing and putting in a new kitchen.  The wood stove was installed in the next two days.  It is a nice house now, if you like bright blue walls and orange doors!  

Keith with hammer; Jorge, the construction fellow for the mission who installed the plumbing for the kitchen and the wood stove; and Elder Poulson, another senior missionary who is in charge of the mission office and does a lot of housing set-ups.

Elder Poulson, on the phone as usual, and Sister Poulson

Keith with Hermana Poulson and Elder Poulson and the bunk beds

Chilean marshmellows

Marshmellows grow very large in Chile.  These we found in a field on the way to Rio Bueno.  I haven't found a cup to hold even one for my hot chocolate!

Hermano and Hermana Salvatierra

Keith and I were in Osorno attending a stake conference in March 2014 when an hermano came up to him and said that he knew who he was!  It was another of Dad Stott's missionaries.  He tried to see us in La Union last week but kept missing us.  He was glad to see us at the conference.  He spoke about his mission and his mission president.  It's so nice to hear the great appreciation and love these gentlemen have for Dad Stott or Presidente Stott as they call him.

Hermano and Hermana Salvatierra, Keith and Barbara Stott

Animals in La Union and Chile

A couple of weeks ago, Aubrey asked a question about what kind of animals we have in Chile.  It got us thinking so here is our page of "Animals in La Union and Chile."

A cow who sneaked out of her field near La Union

Sheep still in their field near La Union

Pigs walk free on the sidewalks and streets of Rio Bueno (the town next to La Union)

Geese in a yard in Lago Ranco

A snake (you have to imagine the rest of the body) in Lago Ranco -- 

someone has a sense of humor!

One of many dogs that run free in La Union!

We liked this cat in Caupolican, the neighborhood we live in .

This horse is eating weeds.  He looks like he hasn't had a good meal in days.

Another horse, this one in Puerto Varras, south of La Union.

An very talented owl in Villarica, north of La Union --

not many owls can ride a bicycle!

A chicken in Pucon, in a park with waterfalls -- 

Keith's caption is "That is not my egg!"

A ladybug in Villarica -- a friend of the frog

We will keep our eyes open for more animals.  I want a picture of a penguin, and we have a picture of a dragon in La Union but I couldn't find it.  I will have to look harder in our photographs file.