Central Zone Apartment Visits & Barrio Los Jardines

This week we went with Sister Marble to visit the missionary apartments in the Central Zone.

With Elder Messier from Georgia and Elder Wyatt Turner from Laguna Beach, CA
outside their apartment.

Bill climbing the spiral staircase to the third floor
of one of Elder's apartment. This building is owned
by the Zamoras from the temple. Their daughter and her
family live on the first floor, the Zamoras on the second floor
and the missionaries on the third.  They are in the Chan Chan ward.

The Zone Leaders, Elder Babbel from Idaho and Elder Reyes from Lima.

A street vendor with meat hanging under the umbrella.

Elder Zachary Turner and Elder Elder Bejarano from Bolivia.

Elder Latimer from Price Utah & Elder Maddocks from North Dakota.

When we arrived back at the temple we found Oscar (one of the temple
engineers with his wife and little son, Tiago.  We gave him some cookies
we had in our bag.  He loved them.

Today we attended the Los Jardines Ward.  The Trujillo Ward meets in the same building but they are both in different stakes which are also in two different missions.  The Trujillo Ward is in the Trujillo South Mission with President Rios and the Los Jardines ward is in the 
Trujillo North Mission with President Marble.  One of the Sister Missionaries told us they have to leave the mission every time they go to church.  An interesting situation.

We don't take as many pictures at church now since we are on our 2nd or 3rd time attending the different wards and we have posted pictures of most of the people we know previously.

Elder Willard from Washington & Elder Zanabria from Lima.

Hermana Samanamud from Lima & Hermana Rowley from Salt Lake City.

Bill with Hermano Llontop & his son Samuel.

Sisters from the temple.  The sister on the left is 90 years old.

Last night was the BYU / Utah game.  It was a good game but some of the officiating was questionable.  Utah beat BYU 20-19.  BYU had a chance to win the game on the final play.  Bill says he is starting to feel like Charlie Brown since they have beat us several years in a row.

Bill enjoying the game with his BYU Peppermint stick from our neighbor De Anna Fry.

Bill and De Anna are friendly rivals as she bleeds pure red and he bleeds blue. But she was a good sport and decorated our home in Blue and White while we watched the game in Peru.

She had a little help from some other neighbors, Jim, Margaret and Rose.
We sure do miss our good neighbors.

  

Our friends, Jim and Patti Fackrell, who served here in Trujillo, are also big Utah fans.  They were at the game and promised to wave to us.  Here they are with their family, cheering on the Utes.

Today marks 15 years since 9/11.  Every American remembers where they were on 

September 11, 2001. We will never forget the weeks of sadness and fear that followed the tragic attacks that took 3000 lives that day.  America came together to rebuild after this tragedy.

Missionary Apartment Checks / Buenos Aires

On Thursday we went with the Zone Leaders of the Porvenir Zone to check missionary apartments. We went to Laredo, Porvenir and Rinconada. We always enjoy doing this as we are able to interact with the wonderful Elders and Sisters serving here in Trujillo.  It also gives us a chance to see some other areas and neighborhoods in Peru.  Of course there were many Kodak moments along the way. We checked 7 Elders apartments and 2 Sisters apartment.  

We picked up the Zone Leaders at their apartment.  We never
would have found the other apartments without their help and the
help of our wonderful taxi driver, Joel. The streets aren't marked
that well and the addresses are not always posted.
These guys were great and it was fun spending time with them.
Elder Suarez is from Lima and Elder McEwan is from McKinney, Texas.

 Joel with his taxi came out blurry but he was so patients and helpful to us
all morning.  Joel is not a member of the church but he loves the missionaries
and is one of everyone's favorite taxi drivers.  He has hauled many
missionaries over the years.

This is the zone leaders apartment building.  They live on the 2nd floor on the left.

There was this huge hole in front of the building.
Joel barely missed it.

Heading to a location to sell peanuts, a bag for 1 sol. 

A group of preschool children on the square in Laredo.

We saw this lady getting her hair done on the street, literally. 

A Porvenir street.

Waiting outside a missionary apartment for them to come to the door.

We had to walk down this narrow alley to get to another apartment.

A view from one of the apartments.

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The Plaza in Laredo. 

On Sunday we went to church in Buenos Aires, near the beach.  We didn't get many pictures of members this week.  We arrived about 10 minutes before the meeting and there was only one man and the Bishop there.  By the time they finished passing the Sacrament the chapel was full.  

This is Rafael, the first one to come to church.
He told us he has been a member for 4 months and wants to come
to the temple in a year. He used to live in Seattle and Alaska
so speaks really good English.  He was excited practice his
English with us.

After church we decided to walk to the beach to see the ocean before catching the taxi for home. Unfortunately, we didn't know there would be a huge rock wall making it impossible to see the ocean.  There is really no beach here, just rocks, but many people climb the the large rocks and sit to enjoy the view.  We weren't really dressed for that but we had and young man take a picture for us from the top.

While walking several blocks to the beach we ran into a parade.  They were playing music and dancing.  We weren't really sure what they were celebrating but it was fun to watch.

Pikachu was even there. 

It was a beautiful sun-shiny day, as usual.  Every day is really the same in Trujillo.  The sun comes up the same time everyday and goes down the same time every day.  We live close the the equator. The temperature never varies more than about 10 degrees for any season.  It never rains.  We have only felt a few drops the whole time we have been here.  It is usually overcast in the mornings and sunny in the afternoon.  It feels like groundhog day everyday.  But we really enjoy our walks whether there is a beach to look at, going to the mall or around the temple or surrounding areas.

Pato (duck) and Cuy (guinea pig) sold here for lunch.

Bill bought this little guy an ice cream cup.

Back home in Utah, Heather took Sadie to Comic Con.  I'm not really sure what it is all about but it seems to be big deal all over the country.  Sadie had a great time and even dressed in her cosplay. Cosplay is a performance art in which cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character.  Sadie was Undyne from a game called Undertale.  She had a great time.  Here are come pictures she took with other cosplayers.

Sadie

Little Max had run out of his favorite balls.  He loses them or hides them.  You can only get them at Petco and have to drive to Ogden to find the closest Petco.  Heather is busy so we had a package of five sent to him in Providence.  

Opening his mail

A new ball - at last.

And in conclusion, I found this cute Pickles comic strip that fits us to a "T".  I just love my sappy Hallmark movies and popcorn; Bill, not so much.