We have 10 missionary zones, each one assigned to one of the 10 stakes in our mission. We need to meet with each of the zones and show them our CLEANING power point and explain to these young Elders and Hermanas how to clean and take care of their pensiones/homes. We met with the Las Condes Zone on Monday morning during their weekly Zone meeting. Our power point starts with photos of the inside of the temple and we ask them how their home compares to the temple and show them photos that we have taken in the various pensiones we have been in; trash cans overflowing, clothes thrown all over, kitchens with grease and dirty dishes. I think it made an impression. We go on to explain to them how to care for stoves, washers, dryers, vacuums, friges, ect. We hope that we can reach at least half of them and get them to take better care of the "widows mite" that helps to pay for their missions. As we meet with each zone, we will also show them the power point about the Capilla Abierta's so that they will all be trained. We will do this at each zone meeting on Mondays so we have 9 more weeks to get this completed in.
Tuesday the 29th, Elder Thompson and Elder Hughes went to La Reina to look at two different apartments and see if they will work for our missionaries in #110 that we need to close. Fingers crossed!!
Wednesday we headed out to Cordillera to install 5 ojo majico's. We did a few repairs in each apartment after we installed the ojo's. We are still very impressed with this Zone. They all take very good care of their homes and they are all very clean. This Zone is the fartherest from the office.
We got the apartment for the Elders in #110! We are so excited for them. We ended up buying all the furniture that is in the apartment so we won't have to worry about it being damaged. We will probably take the bed and put it in our apartment and the table and 6 chairs into the Hughes apartment. We will close on it next week and get the Elders out of that ugly place.
Hermana Hughes made this gatling gun that shoots rubber bands. I had told her that we had given our men 6 shooters for Christmas. You pull the string and the rubber bands fly. Our young missionaries had a lot of fun with it, (and so did some of the older missionaries)
We went to the temple again on Thursday afternoon. We leave the office about 3 and catch the 4:30 session. The Wallaces were there too and afterwards we went to their apartment for lasagna, salad, and garlic bread. We had a wonderful visit and didn't get back to the office till 8:30. We left the truck there and walked home. It didn't cool off much tonight but at least the sun wasn't making it hotter. We try to leave the truck at the office as much as we can so we can walk down each morning when it is cool.
We have been trying to find a place that makes large signs that we can put on the church fence to advertise our Capilla Abierta's. We spent most of Friday trying to get one ordered.
Friday evening we went to dinner with the Hughes to the Piccola Italia Restaurant. The waiter was cute, he commented, "you came all the way to Chile to eat Italiano?"
The food was excellent and the company even better!
Hermana Hughes is our Chocoholic! She was so excited to order this chocolate cake. We had a hunch she would be disappointed, and she was, because it was soaked in milk just like the cakes in Central America were. After dinner, Elder Hughes decided to drive down this road and see where it took us. He is a lot braver than we are. But, off we went and we ended up in the La Dehesa Ward area. This is where the Americans build their homes. The whole mountain side was filled with mansions. It was incredible. We had to put "home" into our GPS to get back and we are not sure we can ever find that area again but it was an amazing drive.
Saturday morning we drove out to Gabriela to meet with the owners of one of our pensiones that is empty right now. They have rented it to the Church for 9 years and have not been inside the home in all that time. They were wondering what kind of repairs needed done. They were pleased to see that the church takes care of the homes. This is the pasaje where the home is located. It is very small, it is not called a street but a pasaje or a passage. They are so narrow!
You have to park on the sidewalks so that other cars can get by and one end of the pasaje is usually gated so you have to back out. They are usually very quaint and quiet, except for the dogs! We've decided that it is a law that to live in Santiago you have to own at least one dog!
Saturday is supposed to be our P-day so that afternoon we met up with the Wallace's and Hughes and drove around the area by the temple to find the tienda/store that sells nuts and oatmeal. It was closed but we now know where it is. We found a steak house that the temple missionaries say is very good so we can try it out on one of our Friday Date Nights. We ended up at the Wallace's to play a game of "golf". It is a card game and we really had a wonderful time with good friends. It is fun to hear about their adventures as they serve in the temple and they love to hear about our adventures as we serve with the young missionaries. Definitely two different worlds!
We have had a wonderful week with successes - finding a new apartment, getting a banner ordered for our Capilla Abierta's, 5 more ojo majico's installed, visiting different parts of this city and enjoying time with friends.
This week went by so fast. We are healthy and enjoying our service here. We send our love to all. You are always in our thoughts and prayers. Thank you for your prayers in our behalf. We feel the angels around us daily. Till next week - - -
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