Back to Laredo

On Sunday we went back to Laredo to the Laredo Ward.  This is a Chapel we haven't been to before. It was about 30 minutes from the temple.  We have now been to all of the buildings in the Trujillo area, except Milagro which is the farthest out and they meet at  8:00 AM.  Don't know if we will make it there or not.  

Bill with Bishop Irving Ramirez Suyon in the front of the church.
This door is always locked.  The people come in from the back.
The street in front of the church is dirt.

     

The back of the church.

Members walking in from the back street into the church.

Flor Maria Suyon - a temple worker and the Bishop's mother.

Elder Dykstra from Sacramento, CA and Elder Connelly from Gilbert, AZ.

The chapel area with 6 dividers they pull together after Sacrament
meeting to make 6 smaller classrooms.

Betty Lujan.  She is the chorister and I player the piano.
She is 19 and engaged to a young man in the ward.
They plan to be married in the temple next year.

Some of our friends from the temple.
Hermano Benites, Elmer Guevi, Hermana Caballero, Me, Hermana Herrera, Hermana Cardoso & Hermano Herrera

This couple comes to the temple frequently as patrons.
They love to be the witness couple.

Brother and Sister Benites and her mother.
They are both coordinators at the temple. 

Elmer is one of the guards at the temple.


They had these cute signs above the doors.

CTR Class
Haz Lo Husto - Choose the Right

Valiants

Young Women 

The Baptismal Font

Hermana Caballero is a volunteer at the temple. She has lived in
Laredo all her life.  Her son lives in Pennsylvania.  She insisted on
helping us get a good taxi after church. She wanted us to be safe.
The Saints here are so kind and loving.


Scenes from the Taxi

Sugar Cane 

On Monday, along with our usual P-day duties we went with the Nields to shop for a birthday present for Jan Haws.  We ran into Hermano Apolinario at his little shop near the Apiat.  We also went to the Post Office to mail a Book of Mormon to a man we met on the  airplane from Iquitos to Lima.  He is from England and lives in Cusco. He and Bill talked on the flight and he said he would read the Book of Mormon if we sent him one.  He has lived in Peru for 30 years, is married to a Peruvian and has a daughter attending college in Oxford, England.  He works for the British Consulate.  We will see if we hear from him again.  

At the Post Office.

The Nields go back home to Arizona next week.  We went to lunch with them at Squalo's.  They had never been there before.  We all had Hawaiian Chicken, mashed potatoes and salad.  It was very good.

At 4:00 all the American Missionaries had to meet the office missionaries at the Notaria.  We had to sign papers and the church had to pay taxes for all of us to stay in the country.  Elder Olsen, on the right, has a new companion, Elder Espinoza, from Puno, Peru near Lake Titicaca.  He is a cute Elder and speaks fluent English.  He lived with his family for 9 years in Salt Lake City while his Dad was attending college.  His dad is now a Civil Engineer in Puno.

They recently hung these beautiful, carved, 3D paintings in our apartments above the beds.  This picture does not do it justice.  For the past 9 months there have just been two screws above our beds.  Evidently, they had these same pictures hanging above the beds during the dedication but they gave them to the visiting general authorities staying in our apartments. They are by Don Bosco.

Back home in Utah, our daughter Heather, is opening her own counseling practice.  She has been working with Summit Counseling for several years.  We wish her the best of luck in this new phase of her career. Our granddaughter, Sadie drew the tree for her logo.