Week 10

Week 10

Sat. Feb. 18^th: We decided to go with all the other missionaries to visit the Palacio Portales. You might remember we visited this house and museum once before with Pres. Crayk. But this time we took a tour in Spanish because most of the Latin temple missionaries were with us. Following this blog post is a couple of videos of the house and gardens. It was interesting even the second time. We then all walked to the open Saturday market. Maybe 15 minutes away. I have also included a video of the market and where I bought our chicken for the week. In the afternoon I went with mom to the ward house for a Relief Society function. They were learning how to make flowers out of ribbon. At the end of the function we stayed for a baptism of a young girl. I gave the opening prayer for the baptism. Sun. Feb. 19^th: Today was uneventful. We taught the second part of the plan of salvation in our temple prep class. We had a choir practice in the evening. Next Sunday we will be singing in the Colon Ward. Tues. Feb. 20^th: We had a barbecue at the Crayk’s even though they are in Utah. Everyone had to bring their own meat and a dish to share. We had everyone come and afterward we played charades, the Latin couples loved it. Chris and I were asked to speak in the sacrament meeting where we are going to sing next week. In the afternoon we played cards with the Kennedys and the Jackmans and then watched “War Horse”. I thought it was a pretty good movie. Wed. Feb. 22^nd: Today we took a bus downtown and I found some acrylic paints, brushes and canvases. Mom also bought some water color paints. We came home and I started a new painting of the courtyard at the convent we visited a few weeks ago. We also worked for a few hours writing our talks for Sunday. Thurs. Feb. 23^rd: Mom went this morning and learned how to make empanadas at the mission home. Sister Garcia who is the wife to one of the counselors to Pres. Dyer taught all of the North American sisters how to make cheese empanadas.

Sister Garcia and Sister Cardon making empanadas. Mom brought one home it was real tasty. We worked again on our talks. I got mine typed and Elder Delgado came to the apartment and went through it and fixed my Spanish. I retyped it and got a good copy. I can now start to practice forcing my mouth to make shapes and sounds it has not become accustomed to yet. Sat. Feb. 25^th: We got up and went to the Sat. market and on the way home mom started a conversation with the taxi driver and by the time we got home we had given him a book of Mormon and he said he would read it. Mom has tried twice to get someone to listen to the importance of the book of Mormon today she had success. Then everyone decided we would go downtown and watch the carnival parade, corso de corsos, we got across the street at the bus stop and mom began again to talk to the attendant about the book of Mormon. By the time the bus came she had given away another one. Way to go mom. I have included a couple of videos of this parade. It lasted for more than 12 hours. We lasted for maybe 2.

This is a crazy parade where the people watching spray the other people in the parade or just walking by with water or something like shaving cream. (See the Videos) On the way home we saw some of the dancers for the parade. We had missed all of the folk dancers so mom was excited to ask these girls if we could take their picture. In the afternoon we went to Tiquipaya so mom could do her visiting teaching. I sat at the ward house and talked to the Young Men’s President for a couple of hours. Boy does that improve your Spanish. We came home in time for choir practice and then we played a few games with all the missionary couples. We practiced our talks a couple of times and went to bed tired. Sun. Feb. 26^th: We survived our first real talks and mom did a great job. I felt good about our talks and felt like the Spirit was there. I home now blogging. We are so happy that the temple will open back up on Tues. We are ready to get back to work.