Quito, Ecuador Temple

Quito, Ecuador Temple
Here is where we will be working until Feb. 2023

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Dear Readers,

We hope as you read this blog of our mission to the Quito, Ecuador temple you will feel the joy and happiness we are experiencing by being in the service of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We hope you can experience some of what we feel. Christine and I met in Quito, Ecuador 51 years ago while serving as missionaries. We are going home.


John and Christine

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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Week 3 third post

Tuesday, Jan. 3rd: We were back in the temple till our shift was over about 2:00pm. Mom did laundry in the afternoon and I mostly studied Spanish. Which means that I read articles in the Liahona in Spanish and look up words I don’t know.

Wednesday, Jan. 4th: After our shift we went grocery shopping and then came home and cooked dinner for the Mission President and his wife (the Dyers) and a couple (the Bradshaws) that live here in the Guest House but work in the Mission office. The Bradshaw’s son married one of Charlotte's teammates from CSI. No that does not stand for, Crime Scene Investigations.

Both President Dyer and Elder Bradshaw served here in Bolivia when they were young missionaries and Elder Richard G. Scott was their mission president. They are flying south tomorrow to a small village where they both worked and built an adobe chapel 43 years ago. We are kinda jealous. We want to go see some of the small villages.

Thursday, Jan. 5th: After our shift we went to lunch with the Crayks again and then we to an historic house of a tin baron from the early 1900’s. The house was amazing. I wish we could have taken pictures inside the house.

The Palacio Portales (Portales Palace) was built between 1915 and 1927 based on the design by French architect Eugene Bliault. It was a residence of Simon Iturri Patino, Bolivian millionaire, called "the tin baron" who controlled over half of the nation's output in the 1930s.

This place is a beautiful example of the eclectic style with French Renaissance architectural influences. It includes a Louis XVI room, a moor themed room and influences of Alhambra de Granada.Set in 10 hectares of gardens inspired by Versailles, the mansion was finished in 1927 but never occupied. The Patino Mansion is now the Cultural and Pedagogic Centre Simon I. Patino

The complex includes the Palacio Portales mansion, gardens (Jardines), and an art museum.

In the evening I went with Pres. Crayk and spoke to a group of members who were staying here at the Guest House from somewhere south near the Argentine boarder.

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