Wednesday, March 27th through Saturday, March 30th: These last few days have been the busiest we
have ever seen here at the temple. On Wednesday,
a big youth group of about 100 kids arrived from the Central Stake, Puno, Peru. They had reservations to stay here at the
patron housing building. Another group
of about 30 kids from Puno also arrived, but without reservations. They ended up staying at one of the chapels
close to the temple. Late Wednesday,
another large group of about 80 youth arrived by plane from Tarija without
reservations either; they ended up staying at a different chapel than the group
from Puno.
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| Some of the kids from Tarija. |
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| More of the group from Tarija. |
Thursday, another group of about
80 young adults arrived from Oruro, again without reservations, but wanting to
do baptisms for the dead. We had to tell
this group that we could only accommodate 15 of their group and next time call
and make a reservation. Friday, a small
group of youth arrived from Santa Cruz.
We of course had individuals from Cochabamba and other places in Bolivia
that also came to do baptisms for the dead.
Along with all of these youth came parents and leaders and many other
adults. Needless to say we were
overwhelmed.
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| A group from La Paz. |
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| Others from Santa Cruz. |
We started the Baptistery
at 6:30 am and had groups assigned till 8:00 pm at night. We had so many people show up for sessions we
had to hand out numbers for each session.
Thursday and Friday we averaged over 3500 ordinances performed each day. Every session but one on Friday, we had to
add chairs to accommodate patrons in the sessions. Saturday was also very busy and we ended the
4 last days of the month doing more ordinances than for the rest of the whole
month. Performing 3500 ordinances in one
day has been a record since the early days of the temple and we had 2 of these
days back to back. Early Friday morning, Pres. Yupanqui of the Central stake
from Puno organized all of his youth to do service around the temple
grounds.
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| The youth from Puno getting ready to clean the grounds. |
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| Getting ready to clean the lawn. |
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| Cleaning the lawn. |
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| Others cleaning the lawn. |
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| Others cleaning the lawn. |
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| Cleaning outside the temple grounds. |
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| Sweeping up. |
They picked up and raked every
leaf and piece of paper inside and outside of the temple grounds. The kitchen served 350 people for lunch on
Thursday and Friday.
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| The line for lunch. |
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| The line for lunch. |
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| Lunch in the cafeteria. |
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| Some had to eat on the lawn. |
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| The group from Puno having a fireside on the lawn. |
We were very tired
after our shifts and we slept very soundly.
Sunday, March 31st: We chose to go to the Frutillar Ward in
the new Sacaba stake. We had a very
enjoyable time. I spoke about the link
between the Atonement and the Temple. We had a great Easter dinner at the
Mission Home with all of the North American missionaries.
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| Easter Dinner. |
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| Easter Dinner. |
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| Easter Dinner. |
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| Easter Dinner. |
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| Lynn Crayk in his Easter bonnet with Pres. and Sister Dyer. |
Pres. Crayk informed us we will be getting a
visit from Elder Craig Christensen of the Presidency of the Seventy and Elder
Pino, the Area President at the end of April.
We will all look forward to their visit.
Monday, April 1st: We
went to President and Sister Diaz’s house for lunch with Pres. and Sister Crayk
and the Winkfield’s and the Dibb’s. The
Winkfield’s and The Dibb’s will go home this month. President Diaz is the other counselor in the
Temple Presidency. Sister Diaz cooked
chinchiron, deep fried pork and chicken.
It was an interesting meal. Sister Crayk brought her home made baked
beans. So we did not go hungry.
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| Dinner at the Diaz's. |
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| Dinner at the Diaz's. |
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1 comment:
Sounds busy busy busy
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