tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172508137180643192024-03-19T05:42:36.386-07:00Our Mission in Concepcion, ChilePatty Kennington-Rookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07923529388771666857noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517250813718064319.post-90954407606684568322015-02-08T07:14:00.000-08:002015-02-08T17:50:50.692-08:00What we learned as Senior Missionaries<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's been less than three weeks since we left Chile, and we have been trying to function more or less competently in our home country. Fortunately our children have been taking good care of us. We were released as missionaries by President Barlow, we have made several trips out to the farm to see how things are--which is, well taken care of by the renters--and start moving loads of belongings out of our house's basement and into our daughter's garage.<br />
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We visited our home ward, the Ontario 3rd, and were warmly welcomed. How wonderful it is to see old and faithful friends. We have known them for many years, and we have missed them.<br />
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Malheur Butte, July 2013<br />
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We don't know when it started happening, but the house we built together and spent 40 years happily raising our family in, the place where I grew a large garden of trees and flowers next to my husband's fields and pastures, overlooking a magnificent view of the Treasure Valley and the Malheur Butte, no longer seems to belong to us. Clinton is no longer interested in farming. We love the farm, but it is passing into a different phase, as are we.<br />
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We started looking at homes in Idaho. We would like to stay in the western Treasure Valley, or we may end up building a home. We don't know what is in store for us. We will recognize it when it comes.<br />
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On Sunday we are to give a report of our mission in our home ward, the Ontario 3rd, Ontario Oregon Stake. In thinking about what I would say, I have written down several unforgettable and hard-won lessons:<br />
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1. Nearly every LDS missionary I have known and spoken with in the field, no matter how effective and capable they are, wonder if they are doing enough, or even making any difference at all. The mission president's wife, Hermana Arrington, and the mission nurse, Hermana Balden, recognized that especially the sisters can feel dispirited to the point that it affects their outlook and health. This can persist for the entire mission, until the very end, when the missionary starts to say goodbye.<br />
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2. Which leads to the corollary that it isn't until you start saying goodbye, and people start crying and giving you besos y abrazos, and telling you that you have changed their lives for the better, and wishing you would stay, that you begin to believe you weren't ineffectual after all.<br />
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Then it hits you that what you worried about from the beginning--that you would fall in love with these people, that you would be involved in their lives, and their hopes, and their dreams, and that just being there loving them was enough, and more than they expected. Now you have an entire new set of people to love, and soon you will be far away from them, and you will forever wonder how they are faring in their lives, without you.<br />
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3. Although we never knew whether we were accomplishing anything or not, we always had the reassurance that we were in the right place. This was a great comfort. It made the miracles that ensued not entirely unexpected. Because we were where we ought to be, even when it was a sudden last-minute change of plans, peoples' prayers were answered.<br />
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For one example, we ended up unexpectedly in a ward we eventually planned to visit, and found a young woman who had been trying to contact us so Elder Kennington could sign a form that needed to be uploaded on the spot so she would make the Perpetual Education Fund deadline the next day. She later let us know her loan had been approved.<br />
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Returned missionaries, at home with Vanessa's family. The Salt Lake Temple in copper above my head was a gift from Chile.</div>
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4. The Lord loves missionaries. You can feel the prayers from your family at home, and you can feel the prayers from the prayer rolls in all the LDS temples around the world. Your prayers are answered in rapid and undeniable ways. It is something you hope you are worthy of continuing after you are released from the calling. At the end of our mission, our mission president made sure we knew what all missionaries need to know at the end of their missions--that their sacrifice was acceptable to God.<br />
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5. The Lord loves people who take care of missionaries. We have seen desperately poor families take great joy in feeding the hungry young missionary elders and sisters, and introducing them to friends and family and neighbors, and they are blessed because of it.<br />
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6. If you try to accomplish something on your own, you may or may not be successful. You may find intractable problems along the way. If you are doing what the Lord approves, if you have prayed, prepared, and been patient, allowing Providence to make all the arrangements for you, then what is right will happen in an orderly and almost instantaneous way, if not on the time schedule or even the place or circumstances you had hoped for. It will, in fact, be better than you anticipated.<br />
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Elder Kauer is one of the office missionaries whose job it is to find rental units for young elders and sisters. Letting the Lord make all the arrangements is his motto. If you didn't follow the right plan, you would regret it by and by, but if you did, you would be amazed and thankful. This happened when we bought our car, and when we sold it. While we were away, we saw two of our children, after several years of preparation and prayers, get their dream jobs and move across the country to a much better home situation. If it is right, then it will happen in a marvelous way.<br />
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7. If you are a senior missionary couple, a misionero matrimonio, you get to spend almost every living moment within calling distance of your companion. If you loved your companion to begin with, you will come out of the experience in awe and reverence of the incredible person you finally realize you married.<br />
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8. Finally, you are changed forever. Your heart is more tender, you cry more easily, you listen to the humblest of souls without judgment or the need to impose your greater wisdom or expertise, you admire more fully, you are grateful for tender mercies and small blessings. Even with the perplexities of living in a foreign country and the sometimes difficult personalities you are expected to coexist with, you are in the process of stripping away things that don't matter, until there is nothing left but determined faith, great good will and appreciation and a desire to serve God's children wherever you may be. This has been our experience.<br />
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Your heart has expanded, but you have left an important part of it behind you, in Chile.<br />
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We knew this day would come, but it came more quickly than we expected. I was cleaning out the apartment--which was surprisingly full of stuff as small as it was--and Elder Kennington was in the process of selling our Outback with the help of Hno. Parra, our resident legal expert.</div>
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For my birthday and our farewell, the senior missionaries of the Concepcion Mission took us to lunch at Restaurante Don Quijote.</div>
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The 51st annual Feria Concepcion had begun, so we managed to find time to attend. I bought a twin of Hermana Pendley's lapis lazuli ring I had been coveting, and Elder Kennington found these wonderful wall hangings that will forever remind us of rural Chile. The Almacen--storehouse--on the left had a space left blank for personalization, so when the artisan asked Elder K. what name he wanted painted in, Elder K. said, naturally, "Almacen del Obispo," the Bishop's Storehouse.</div>
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We wanted to say personal goodbyes to families that mean a lot to us. We visited the mother and grandmother of our missionary sister in Peru, along with her little nephew Victor, who is now a laughing baby with long and enviable pesta<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ñ</span></span>as--eyelashes.</div>
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It was hard to say goodbye to the Conejos. We gave them an electric fan--ventilador--from our apartment, which their little boys found entertaining and a welcome relief on the warm Chilean summer day. We pray for the Conejos to have everything they need to raise and take care of their family. </div>
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It was even harder to take leave of Andrea, Manuel and Manuelito, who have become very dear friends. They have been a blessing in our lives and we are better people because of them.</div>
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It wasn't until Tuesday morning, the day we were to fly out of Concepcion, that Elder Kennington finished the tr<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">á</span></span>mite--legal paperwork--to sell the Outback to a deserving member. The Kauers and Pendleys picked us up with all our luggage, and we were met at the airport by the Arringtons, who we were able to say goodbye to. I didn't get a picture of Concepcion since there was fog, but I did get this shot of Santiago as we were landing after the first leg of our flight.</div>
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The night flight from Santiago to Atlanta was 10 hours. We were exhausted and able to sleep some. We had to go through agricultural customs because Elder K. still had three Washington apples he bought in Concepcion. The picture above is our flight taking off out of Atlanta, Georgia.</div>
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During the four-hour flight, we passed over the snow-capped Rocky Mountains somewhere in Colorado. Mighty as they are, they are not the Andes.</div>
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Our last leg of the journey, flying out over Logan, Utah.</div>
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We knew we were getting close to our destination when we saw the Teton Mountain range in the distance. Our Toyota 4Runner had been taken care of by our daughter Carrie and her husband Jon, who live in Idaho Falls with their four children, so we landed there first.</div>
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Descending over snowy, sunny, spread-out Idaho Falls. We had a wonderful five-day visit with Carrie's family, got over a little jet lag, started speaking English again, and had to borrow jackets and mittens for the unaccustomed frosty weather.</div>
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Back in the U.S.A. with four of the most beautiful grandchildren in the world. The 4Runner was well taken care of, so we took off for a short stay with Conrad and his family in Boise, where we bought some winter clothes! and then, after a visit to Costco to renew our lapsed membership, we made it to the western Treasure Valley where our oldest daughter Vanessa and her family live. They welcomed us with open arms, and we have been trying to catch up on sleep ever since.</div>
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The weather was perfect, and the drive to Kilometer 71.8 pleasant.</div>
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In Curacautin we stopped at Karin's restaurant, where we had excellent salads. Karin has a German heritage, and you can see her collection of customers' keychains hanging on the wall.</div>
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We stayed two nights at Cabañas Newenpüllü, newly built and comfortable. We booked at <a href="http://www.booking.com/hotel/cl/cabanas-newenpullu.es.html" target="_blank">Booking.com</a> , then paid a cash deposit at the BCI Bank in Concepcion. </div>
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. . . two bedrooms, one with a queen bed and the other with a bunkbed and twin, and one bathroom. For Movistar cell reception you had to go to the main Bed and Breakfast lodge, in case you wanted to talk on the phone, which we didn't.</div>
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After arriving and arranging our belongings, we explored the Camino Victoria-Lonquimay, including side roads. We saw few people, and all the views were spectacular.</div>
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A pretty little Christian church</div>
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Superb Aracauria Araucania, Chilean monkey-puzzle trees, now in the late blooming stage of piñon nuts, an important staple of the Pehuenche Indians of this area. The nuts will be ready by April, we are told.</div>
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The picturesque Curacautin River</div>
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Salto la Princesa, Princess Falls, a geosite of the Kutralkura Geopark located within the Araucarias Biosphere Reserve</div>
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Túnel Las Raíces, constructed in 1939, the second longest tunnel in South America. We were told this tunnel took 20 minutes to drive through, and it only had one lane, so we just took pictures of the entrance. On the other side the Argentine border is a journey of about two hours.</div>
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In the evening the fireflies came out. Of course you can't see them here, and any picture of them just looks black, but it was a treat to see them gently zooming and bobbing about, winking with soft white light in the cool mountain air, next to the stream near our cabin.</div>
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In the morning we followed the lodge owners' recommendation and took the 30-mile gravel road to Parque Nacional Conguillio. We stopped by Laguna Captren for a hike part way round, an easy and beautiful walk.</div>
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Shrubs of Fuchsia Magellanica, the Chilean Chilco, in stunning full bloom.</div>
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A family of waterfowl enjoying the marshy end of the laguna. I think these are Caiquen, the "Goose of the Magellan."</div>
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I don't know what these four-petaled red flowers with the scalloped leaves are called, but they were beautiful.</div>
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The plants live on the bark of the trees.</div>
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Beautiful white flowers, but I don't know what they are.</div>
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Elder Kennington had quite a time navigating a narrow, deep, gully-wash of a 6-kilometer dirt road from the laguna to the famous Volcan Llaima and Lake Conguillio nearby. He was hoping we wouldn't have to turn the car around while driving through it.</div>
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The volcano from a distance</div>
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As you got closer to Volcan Llaima, the countryside gave way to dry black lava soil.</div>
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Lago Conguillio, where you could see a few hardy sunbathers along the shore. The water itself was not that cold. Large buses of tourists were coming from the southern road (a bus would not have handled the trench road very well) and a restaurant was under construction.<br />
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Not far from the lake was a camping area full of families enjoying nature. The Peruvian Lilies, Alstroemeria, were growing wild along the roadside and under the trees. </div>
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The pretty drive back to our cabana, along the Camino Manchuria, which was suggested to us as a "shortcut." If it hadn't been for the detailed map of Chile on our handheld GPS unit, we might still be out there driving around.</div>
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Friday morning, on my birthday, we reluctantly packed everything up and got back on Ruta 5 and Ruta de la Madera to Concepcion. Elder Kauer and Elder Kennington had to stop at this roadside stand selling Mote con Huesillo, honey, tortillas, drinks and cheese, along with Merken spice. Elder Kauer bought a round of white, latticed, sour-cream flavored cheese which went very well with the apples we had with us.</div>
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On an earlier trip with the Pendleys, the Kauers had stopped at an unlikely-looking sign advertising "La Vaca Loca" -- The Crazy Cow -- which turned out to be a decent restaurant on the side of the road between Angol and Renaico. We stopped for an excellent lunch amid the hydrangeas.</div>
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One last shot of the blue hydrangeas. What a wonderful end to our mission, and another unforgettable birthday for me.</div>
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This week was full of fun visits. I will only post pictures of our trip north to Longavi, Linares, and Rari. Next week will be the report on our three days spent with Elder and Hna. Kauer near Caracautin and El Parque Nacional Conguillio.<br />
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On Sunday we attended Barrio Cerro Verde in the Talcahuano South Stake. What a great ward. We saw one of our English student who was having trouble applying for her PEF loan, so Elder Kennington helped her with what she needed.</div>
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Sunday afternoon we visited Dagnig and her sweet hearted husband. Hermana Dagnig has been in a low place in her life for many weeks, so we were glad when she was willing to visit with us.</div>
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Of course, being the generous person she is, she had to share some with me, so I have my Chilean Christmas ornaments to take home. They were a labor of love for her, and she was smiling and laughing when we left.</div>
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On Monday morning the Kauers let us tag along as they drove north to Longavi, where they checked out the facilities where four elders were living. We put two of the elders in the back of the van to take them up to Linares. The reason this elder looks so happy is that Elder Kauer has just given him a plate of cookies made by Hermana Kauer.</div>
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"Los Hermanos Marcial Veleodoro, Campos que como exponentes autenticos y varones de nuestra patria se constituyen en magnificos embajaderos de esta tierra Longaviana." I think I got that right--The musical Marcial brothers, who make Longavi proud.</div>
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I didn't get a photo of the cheerful, accommodating Minches the last time around, so here they are in front of their house. Hermana Minch teaches a lot of members how to play the piano using donated keyboards.</div>
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Restoration of the Corazon de Maria Linares cathedral on our walk from the Minches' to our almuerzo.</div>
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El Tenedor y Parrilla Libre, the Fork and Grill where we had the Executive Special for only $2,500, about $5.00 each. Filling, and we didn't have to listen to the sirens outside that play endlessly when a crime is being committed somewhere in Linares, or something is on fire. Which, fortunately, is rare.</div>
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A cornfield on the highway to Rari, twenty kilometers east and north of Linares. Elder K. tells me this field is either overwatered or short on nitrogen or phosphorus. I am often enlightened with useful facts like this when I travel with Elder K.</div>
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And now for the real reason for our jaunt past Linares. Once Hermana Kauer finds a handmade craft item she likes, she wants to track it down to the source. She had fallen in love with the horsehair Crin she had seen in Chillan and elsewhere. Rari is the little town where Crin is produced, available to the adventurous traveler. You drive down a little road dotted with homes where entire families turn out these beautiful and interesting objects.</div>
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This one was called Las Camelias. The homes in Rari usually have gardens full of flowers, which I was reveling in.</div>
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What may appear to a norteamericano to be lilacs. This is actually a tall bush of pink crape myrtle, which won't grow like this in my yard in eastern Oregon.</div>
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This is Rosalia, in whose garden we found the crape myrtles. She was engaging and energetic and you wanted to move in with her and start making Crin. She told us one of the figures may take at least a week to make.</div>
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Bignonias, gorgeous big trumpet vines with flowers the color of peach sherbet, also in Rosalia's garden.</div>
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Rosalia showing us her spectacular 50-year-old Copihue plant, growing alongside the grape arbor. She says that later in the summer, when the sun is hotter, the Copihue blossoms are redder.</div>
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We walked down the dusty road to the next Artesania en Crin. I love this veranda with big pots of hortensias, hydrangeas.</div>
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The rather shy dueña. lady of the house. Her home, she told us, was 200 years old. We have found many homes in Rari have wonderful antique European furniture in them.</div>
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She let us look at other parts of her house, explaining about how it was built with thick adobe brick walls covered with plaster. I love the light coming through the window.</div>
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This artesania also had a lovely flower garden. Above are blooming lathyrus, the perennial sweet pea.</div>
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Hermana Kauer was on a mission to find a nativity made of Crin, which was turning out to be difficult, especially following the Christmas season.</div>
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Success at last. At this shop there were two Nativity scenes, or pesebre--manger scenes. One was the little one right in front, on the circular base, and the bigger one with about ten figures on it, in the middle of the table. Hermana Kauer got a really good deal on that one, and Hermana Minch bought the little one. I bought a bouquet of the little red posies from the pot at the end of the table.</div>
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Another shop full of family-made Crin. Each shop had something different from the others. This one had adorable little tortugas, turtles, but I bought a little red Copihue instead.</div>
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(Most of) what I ended up with--two angels, a donkey that must have strayed off a nativity, a black-necked swan, two abejas--bee magnets for the refrigerator; two lovely butterflies, the red Copihue, a lucky fish to hang from the ceiling, and a necklace of what look like little red lanterns. Often these have a cross attached to serve as a rosary. I especially like the little teeny baskets with the little teeny flowers on top.</div>
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What Google displayed for me on my birthday, January 16th!</div>
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We received word this week that we will be flying home Tuesday, January 20th. </div>
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This is where the Calle Colo Colo parking attendants often sit, but today Elder Kennington thought the newly-painted word in English accurately described what he was feeling.</div>
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He is actually doing better with a lot of rest, along with a special diet designed and enforced by his personal nurse (Hermana Kennington). He is taking a medication which suppresses blood glucose formation in the liver, resulting in slow but steady progress. We are encouraged by several doctors who believe he may be able to manage with diet alone.</div>
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Sunday we visited the San Pedro ward which meets in the San Pedro de la Paz Stake Center. This is an amazing ward with well-taught classes where we had wonderful gospel discussions.</div>
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I finally finished my latest Telar Chile creation, depicting the flowers of the Añañuca plant, the South American amaryllis, which grows in the mountains and deserts of northern Chile.</div>
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We sent off this depiction of the Manti Temple by resident copper artisan Jose Luis Ramos to our sweethearts who live in Elverdissen, Germany.</div>
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We knew it was going to be a hard week as we started saying goodbye to the wonderful people we have come to know and love in Chile. Here Elder Kennington is with Debora, one of the kind and very talented volunteers in the Self Reliance Center, and Pamela Rivas, on the right, who is in her second year of studying English so she can get her required teaching certificate. Her father has been working as a truck driver so she can continue with her studies. She is one that we were led to--we happened to be in the right place at the right time to help her get a Perpetual Education Fund loan, and her bishop knew of her situation. She calls us her "angels."</div>
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Elder Kennington with Rosita Hernandez and Romy Correa. We have been through a lot with these ladies, who are sweet, kind, generous, and dedicated to a fault. The amount of good they have done in helping people with employment and education over many years is immeasurable.</div>
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All of us together, before we started blubbering.</div>
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Right now you can see a lot of this blue wildflower growing along the side of the road, which from a distance looks like flax, but actually is chicory.</div>
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Friday we walked through the main plaza so we could pay our doctor bill. There was a summer feria in progress. </div>
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The plaza activities were accompanied by the haunting music of these Ecuadoran Kauzay musicians. There are many Ecuadoreans looking for work in Chile, which is not without its problems. All the Ecuadorans I have met are easy to love.</div>
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Elder Kennington getting another pair of shoes shined by the diligent limipabotas, shoe shine man. This limpiabotas is being teased by two other currently unoccupied limpiabotas, who are mocking him for working too hard in the hot sun (mid-70s today).</div>
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There is something to be said for summertime in the Concepcion town plaza. Here I am sitting under the umbrella of the limpiabotas, waiting for Elder Kennington's shoes to be shined, while watching families resting after shopping at the feria; eating ice cream; buying balloons and masks; listening to the music of the Ecuador Kauzay, and sitting under the trees enjoying the cool sea breezes.</div>
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Saturday we took one last trip up the Talcahuano peninsula with the Pendleys and the Lees, senior office missionaries from the Concepcion South mission, to show them how to get to Tumbes. On this particular day, the water in the Bay of Concepcion along San Vicente was a perfect turquoise under the blue sky.</div>
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For some reason all the photos I took of everyone ended up on other peoples' cameras. But they did get to see the picturesque fishing village, and I found a really great pair of bombachos for three-year-old Sydney, who I will be seeing soon.</div>
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I looked up more information on the Isla Quiriquina, which means Many Thrushes in Mapudungan, in the Bahia de Concepcion between Tumbes and Tome. It was the main base for the Spanish in the mid 1500's for their assault on the Mapuche Indians during the Arauco War. Charles Darwin visited the island in 1835, and the Chileans interned German naval prisoners here during World War II. From 1973 to 1975 the southeastern point of the island was used as a concentration camp for political prisoners of Augusto Pinochet. </div>
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The father of Pamela Rivas, who is pictured above, spent several years as a political prisoner under the Pinochet regime, and he recalls being repeatedly beaten during this time. He has served as the bishop of the Pedro de Valdivia Ward in the Concepcion LDS Stake.</div>
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What Elder Kennington thinks is a red-headed buzzard flying over the fleet in San Vicente. We ended up at Puerto Velero restaurant in Lenga for our almuerzo, and it was excellent.</div>
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This has been a difficult week for us. Elder Kennington has been suffering from several serious symptoms, so we visited Dra. Gomez in downtown Concepcion.<br />
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Sunday we visited the Bio-Bio Ward in the Talcahuano Sur stake in Hualpen. We have been impressed with all the wards in this well-run stake.</div>
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Two sets of elders assigned to the Bio-Bio ward plus a pair of traveling elders, who gave Elder Kennington a blessing. We gave them a ride to an appointment in Santa Sabina, which is quite a ways from Hualpen.</div>
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Monday morning we went to an appointment with Dra. Gomez, a church member. She understood our situation immediately and prescribed medications that our U.S. physician agreed with. As we left, the waiting room was filled with young elders and sister missionaries also waiting to see Dra. Gomez for various ailments, before she left on vacation.</div>
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On Tuesday the Baldens took us to see Dra. Gomez at her house in a very nice neighborhood in Andalien. She postponed her vacation so she could talk to us. Elder Kennington's situation is serious enough that we will be leaving a couple of months early in order to get supervised medical care in the United States. We will probably be leaving before the end of January. In the meantime, the medications and change in diet have stabilized his health and he is doing better.</div>
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For New Year's Eve, we were invited to the Lee's apartment for a Mexican dinner. Chileans greet the new year with fireworks, which were visible from the top of the apartment building.</div>
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New Year's Day we accompanied the Kauers to Bulnes, where they were delivering a small stove to an apartment of elders, and checking into a mouse problem in a sister's apartment. We could see the Nevados de Chillán from the higway -- a series of stratovolcanoes named Volcan Viejo, Volcan Nevado, and Volcan Nuevo.</div>
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Eating our picnic lunch on the town plaza in Bulnes</div>
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Saturday morning, we returned the favor and took the Kauers with us to the National Reserve in Valle Nonguen. The nature reserve was created in 2009 and covers 7500 acres. We walked the shortest trail, which was about 1.4 kilometers, not quite one mile.</div>
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. . . and beautiful vistas of the woods and undergrowth, mostly of Colihue, the invasive Chilean bamboo.</div>
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There were a number of very calming cascadas, waterfalls.</div>
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Elder K. and I on the trail.</div>
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We took the Sendero los Copihues, the path of the Copihue, but unfortunately we were too early for the season of bloom</div>
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More wildflowers. We ate a picnic lunch, saw only a few other families on the trails, and said goodbye to the Reserva Nacional Nonguen.</div>
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Christmas Week 2014 we attended two Christmas concerts, Sunday services at Barrio Nacimiento, and helped the senior office missionaries provide a Christmas dinner for all of the 250 young elders and sisters in the Concepcion Mission. We managed to sneak in a trip to Chillán's mercado central, and to the hamlet of Quinchamalí, known for its alfareria engreda negra, black clay pottery.</div>
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Saturday evening we came early to practice with the Penco missionary and sisters' choir.</div>
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The Bio Bio Region Carabineros Band added to the festivities with several rousing numbers. Following the concert, the director, who is a church member, asked us for information on the Perpetual Education Fund. He wants to advance in his chosen field by taking more classes.</div>
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The flautist, wearing black, and the young pianista in his coat and tails and white gloves. He played the accompaniment to the sisters's rendition of O Holy Night, without music, only by ear. Although what he played was not complicated, it showed an innate understanding of music theory that he will no doubt build on in the future. He never did break a smile, and was perfectly content at the keyboard.</div>
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The Nacimiento Ward was very accommodating and quite interested in Elder Kennington's impromptu presentation during Sunday School lesson time. We brought the Kauers with us since they don't get to travel south of Concepcion very often.</div>
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Sunday evening we attended a Christmas concert at the Gleisner Stake Center. There were about 1000 people in attendance. The orchestra played very well, the choir was among the best I've heard in Chile, there was a children's chorus, and two young women with beautiful soprano voices sang solos.<span style="text-align: left;"> Music more than anything has put me in the Christmas spirit this year.</span></div>
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This is Elder Withers from the Boise area, whom we met when he and Elder Kennington were buying their CTR suits at Peterson's missionary store in Boise. Elder Withers says when he leaves the mission field he will wear one suit home and leave the rest in Chile. We keep running into him when we visit different areas.</div>
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I found a shop I really liked, and ended up buying a small carved gourd from Peru, a lapis lazuli "Tierra del Fuego" pinguina--penguin, and this example of <em>Crin </em>(horsehair) shaped like a butterfly. Crin is the native art of the village of Rari in the Maule region off the highway between Linares and Talca. The women artisans use Ixtle tampico plant fiber for the warp, and dyed horsehair for the weft. It must take hours of time to make each of these.</div>
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After leaving Chilllán, we dived off the highway for a visit to Quinchamalí, which means "paired girls" in Mapundungan. Elder Kennington and I had stopped here once before, hoping to find fruit stands among the orchards of cherry trees. But we hadn´t gone down the narrow main road far enough. </div>
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The Kauers, however, had been looking for the black pottery hand-formed by loceras--women potters--so they showed us where they bought several nativity scenes. I had to sadly decline the only nativity I saw, since it would have been too heavy to take home in my luggage.</div>
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Quinchamalí's famous cooking dishes can go from fridge to oven--just like Pyrex. In the display above you can see the traditional figures of the guitarrero, guitar player, small pitchers, birds and chickens, goats and vases, decorated with filigrees of white paint. The artisans explain about how the clay has been obtained and finished.</div>
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This shop had the most artistic and well made pottery we saw. I bought a piggy bank and a dangly wind catcher, and Elder Kennington got some miel--honey, very smooth with excellent flavor, some of the best I have ever tasted, most likely due to all the fruit trees.</div>
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I had my picture taken with this guitarrera, woven out of some sort of narrow fiber. On our way out of town, the men found a fruit stand which only had Rainier-type or Queen Anne red-and-yellow cherries -- no more Bings. But the kilo bags did not last long. </div>
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We mostly rested on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, talked on Skype, and listened to music, since Elder K. has been recovering from a lingering virus. We are thinking we would like to rent a casita like this on the main street in Quinchamalí, so we can lounge under the sweet gum trees while painting white designs on black pottery and eating honey and cherries.</div>
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Patty Kennington-Rookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07923529388771666857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517250813718064319.post-334233764478218652014-12-21T02:39:00.001-08:002014-12-21T17:47:54.297-08:00Parral and Cauquenes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We had made arrangements to visit the Parral District north of Concepcion, to attend the Cauquenes branch and have a meeting with the district Self Reliance committee. Sunday morning we got up early for the two-hour drive.<br />
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It is the time of year for stands along the side of the road selling Mote con Huesillo, the boiled grain, syrup and sun-dried peach drink that Chileans love. We passed them all by.</div>
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In Chile there are two main mountain ranges, the Andean cordillera and the cordillera de la costa, between the Andes and the coast. We were driving the Ruta de la Costa, the main highway between Route 5 and the Ruta de la Playa, the coast highway.</div>
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Quirihue, halfway between Concepcion and Cauquenes</div>
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Driving into Cauquenes, a town of about 38,000 in the Maule region of Chile.</div>
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We attended the Cauquenes branch. The Parral District presidency was also in attendance. All adults and youth gathered for a meeting to answer questions about the Perpetual Education Fund. Being far from population centers and academic institutions, many members in Cauquenes feel left out of the opportunities available to others. We brought materials for those in Cauquenes and Parral who are more interested in self-employment.</div>
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Following the meeting, we located the only hotel we could find in Cauquenes, the Hotel Maule, with what appeared to be a 1930's facade.</div>
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The decor had undergone numerous revisions over the decades. The hotel boasted quite a few rooms, and a gated estacionamiento (parking lot) down the street and around the corner. The concierge said many foreign guests stay at this hotel, which includes a dining room.</div>
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All was forgiven when we found the king-size bed was comfortable, and that we were the only guests in the hotel. Otherwise the walls were paper-thin, and it might have been a different story. Poor Elder Kennington needed as much rest as he could get. He was sleeping a lot lately, following a sore throat and cold symptoms, and several days with red cheeks, which we found were apparently caused by the Parvovirus 19, a usually childhood illness called slapped cheek disease. It is taking him a long time to recover.</div>
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After the nap we drove 40 minutes to Parral due east, passing across the Rio Cauquenes. The Cauqui were an indigenous group given that name by the Inca, and called Cauquenes by the Spaniards.</div>
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. . . and sheep. There is a thriving wool yarn industry in Cauquenes.</div>
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The Parral district chapel. Parral is about the same size as Cauquenes, and more rural. More people here wear the native huasa dress, especially the men, who wear the wide-brimmed huasa hats.</div>
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After our return trip to Cauquenes and a night's sleep in the Hotel Maule, we picked up a set of four missionary sisters to take to the desayuno, zone breakfast provided by the Member and Leadership Support senior missionaries, the Scholes. The landmark to guide us to their house was the Iglesia San Alfonso, St. Alphonsus' Catholic church.</div>
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The Scholes live in this two-story mansion, the top floor of which they <i>don't even use</i>. Elder Kennington kept reminding me to be thankful for our tiny apartment in Concepcion.</div>
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Elder Scholes, who is now the Cauquenes Centro branch president, Hermana Scholes (not in this picture), and the young hermanas making pancakes, fruit salad, whipped cream, and scrambled eggs in their <i>giant kitchen</i>. It was the best breakfast I've had in a long time.</div>
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There was a great group of about 16 elders and hermanas enjoying breakfast. Elder Scholes says that no matter how much food they have, it will all be gone.</div>
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Monday morning we drove back to Parral in order to take Ruta 5 to Concepcion. We passed these beehive-shaped dryers surrounded with leña, firewood, and clouds of grayish-white smoke. We could not smell anything, so we don't know what was being smoked or dried.</div>
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A pretty tree-lined avenue outside Parral. Parral is notable for the main highway which runs through it, making three 90-degree turns and passing by the rodeo grounds.</div>
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The main plaza is beautiful this time of year.</div>
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Elder and Hna. Mora, who serve as counselors to the Concepcion Mission president, wanted us to stop by and visit their home, which is decorated for Christmas. Their son attends BYU Idaho, and they miss him a great deal.</div>
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Elder Mora is a retired carabinero who plays many musical instruments in the carabinero band, as did his father, grandfather, and uncles. His display of firearms and woodwinds is a sight to behold. He also collects vintage cameras.</div>
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The Christmas ferias continue one after another in the main Concepcion plaza. I couldn't resist these puffy wool felted angels. Jon Snider, don't be afraid. Just imagine they have noses and mouths. These cost $4 or $5 mil each, about eight or nine US dollars.</div>
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At our choir practice, Hna. Solange banished these lovely gringa sisters to the side of the chapel. Since they are all over 6 feet tall, they not only block the view of all the shorter sisters, they block the congregation's view of the screen where a video will be shown. They were good-natured about it. The extremely tall gringo elders, of course, are likewise lined up along the sides of the regular choir seats. The performance is December 20th.</div>
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Patty Kennington-Rookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07923529388771666857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517250813718064319.post-6583237815042540752014-12-14T01:48:00.000-08:002014-12-24T03:57:40.181-08:00Historic Cañete<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The first Sunday in December we visited Barrio Boca de la Costa in San Pedro de la Paz, where the Bio Bio River meets the Pacific Ocean. </div>
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Following church, we picked up Andrea and Manuel for a visit to Cañete, south of Arauco. We stopped in Coronel to pick up Manolito at Andrea's mother's house. The Rodriguez home was built by the government following the 2010 earthquake.</div>
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Andrea's mother and her uncle, who is blind.</div>
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Driving south, passing more pastures of grazing cattle.</div>
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The road was well-engineered, and on Sunday afternoon, fairly empty. We made it to the outskirts of Cañete in good time.</div>
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Cañete is not far from the epicenter of Chile's 1960 record-shattering 9.5 earthquake in Valdivia. The Chilean government has built many replacement houses, including this one, where Gisela and Marcelo live. </div>
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Gisela lived with and became very close to Andrea and Manuel while she was studying Restaurant and Hotel Management in Concepción. Since she and Marcelo are getting married in February, and we were willing to stay in the Hostel in Cañete, they offered their home instead as a bed and breakfast, even though they slept themselves at Gisela's mother's house. The amount we would have paid to a Hostel would mean a lot to them. It sounded like a good arrangement to us.</div>
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Gisela turned out to be an outstanding cook. For desayuno, breakfast, she made sopaipillas and pan de campo, homemade bread, with paltas - avocado, scrambled eggs, sliced cheese, and juice. For our Monday almuerzo, she served us an excellent salad with home-grown greens, beans, sweet corn, and tuna; papas puree - mashed home-grown potatoes - with pino, the typical Chilean ground beef-onion-cheese-hard boiled egg mixture; and creme caramel, a flan made with caramelo, caramelized sugar syrup. It was all excellent, worthy of a fine restaurant, and served on Gisela's pretty dishes.</div>
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After lunch, we followed Gisela and Marcelo to where Marcelo's family owns a fair amount of land - about 70 hectares, or 175 acres - between two lagunas. It was on the other side of Cañete, known as a historical town because of the battles which took place between the Spanish conquistadores and the Mapuche defenders.</div>
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We passed many forests of eucalyptus, which drive out other growth and take up a lot of water through their root systems. These fields were bought from the original Mapuche owners - unhappily, in the minds of many - by the Chinese, who value the eucalyptus for its wood. Disagreements over land ownership and the maintenance of native forests has led, in some areas, to violence.</div>
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Cañete's hospital complex, with its interesting round buildings which pay homage to the Mapuche thatch roof dwellings called Ruka. </div>
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Down the main boulevard are these stylized representations of the Araucaria Araucana, the monkey-puzzle tree, sacred to the Mapuche Indians.</div>
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In the Mapuche Plaza Caupolican were more C<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">hemamüll</span></span>, Gente de Madera, wooden people, like the ones we saw in Temuco. The wooden people are carved from single hardwood logs and stand next to a deceased person during the funeral, and then as a marker over the grave. Their purpose is to help the deceased reunite with their ancestors. The Spanish considered them idolatrous and destroyed many. The marker in front mentions Marcelo's uncle as one of the men responsible for building the memorial plaza.</div>
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Next we went to Fuerte Tucapel, the fort where Pedro de Valdivia, the first royal Spanish governor of Chile, was killed in 1553 in a battle with Lautaro and Caupolican, the fierce Mapuche warriors and their armies. This was in spite of Valdivia's attempts to repair relations between the Mapuche after their maltreatment at the hands of the first Spanish explorer of Chile, Diego de Almagro.</div>
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One of several cannon used by the Spaniards to defend the fort, which overlooks a valley. Next to Elder K. is Marcelo, a Mapuche, who, we discovered, is very steady, hard working, and kind.</div>
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The valley in which the battles took place.</div>
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Gisela and Andrea knew of some artesanal Chilean shops, and that I wouldn't be able to resist.</div>
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Lana, wool yarn, in natural colors. The pink is dyed using mora, blackberries. Elder K. picked out the basket.</div>
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We drove several miles along a gravel road, catching our first glimpse of one of the lagunas.</div>
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Marcelo's parents' home on the farm. Electricity was finally installed several years ago, and they built a working bathroom, but there is no hot water in the house, and only two faucets.</div>
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In the yard a family of patos - ducks - was running around.</div>
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Also pavos, turkeys, which actually do make that ridiculous gobble-gobble sound.</div>
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The home is built near the shores of one of the lagunas, which is owned by the extended family. It has a subterranean water source.</div>
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Gisela, Marcelo, and Manuel Mendoza. Gisela is the only member of her family to be baptized a member of the LDS church, and Marcelo has started accompanying her to church services.</div>
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Elder K. and I. We are finally getting a little color in our faces after the winter.</div>
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Next, we drove along the gravel to where Marcelo and his father needed to fill an order for the delicious red potatoes they grow in one of their fields. When I turned around, Elder K. had ahold of another woman's hand, which is not all that unusual. All the land and the lagunas are owned by Marcelo's Mapuche mother and her family.</div>
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Harvesting potatoes to fill six 50-kilo (110 lb.) bags took the better part of two hours. It was nice to get dirty again. Elder K. was thinking about how helpful a tractor would be about now. The family borrows the use of a tractor now and then, but a lot of the work is done by hand, and many of the fields lie fallow because there aren't enough workers or capital to run them.</div>
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I found a knife and a pair of scissors so Andrea and I could harvest a patch of Hierba San Juan, St. John's herb, which Hermana Rosa uses for one of her skin creams.</div>
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Joint-stemmed limpia plata or cola del caballo, clean silver or horsetail, is an herb used for its antiseptic, diuretic and anti-inflammatory properties, for respiratory problems and sore throats.</div>
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I followed Andrea and the abuelita, Marcelo's mother, down to the other laguna, where she has her vegetable garden. Although the surroundings are beautiful, life has not been easy. The abuelita told us of carrying one of her guaguas - babes in arms - three hours as she walked to town when the baby was sick and her husband away, and the baby not surviving.</div>
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The view of the unspoiled, private laguna. Several of Gisela's relatives showed up to go fishing. We thought maybe we could build a little cabin here, and no one would ever be able to find us.</div>
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A white garceta, egret, flying over the water.</div>
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Blossoming mora, blackberries.</div>
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The huerta, market garden, where the abuelita grows vegetables on a fairly steep slope alongside the sauces - willows, and abedules - birch trees.</div>
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Lettuce and cilantro seedlings. When the potato sacks were filled, including one for the Mendozas, we went back to the house and cleaned ourselves up. Marcelo's father approached Elder K. several times about buying our Subaru Outback when we leave Chile. We said our goodbyes, promised to come back for the wedding, and headed back toward Concepción.</div>
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We had been planning to visit Arauco sooner or later, but because of a mix-up in appointments with someone who wanted to apply for a PEF loan, we made the drive down the coast on the last Sunday of November.<br />
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The farthest we had been was the white beach of Lota.</div>
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We kept going down the well-engineered Ruta 160, which is being widened and expanded, like most of the highways in Chile south of Concepcion.</div>
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We passed the main Arauco wood products plant, which gives the surrounding countryside its main source of income.</div>
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To Elder Kennington's delight, we also passed pastures full of grazing cattle. He says he can feel the angst fall away when he is in the countryside. Since coastal areas can often be cool and quite windy, they are not vegetable- and fruit-growing areas like the inland areas, but they can grow pasture.</div>
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The municipality of Arauco</div>
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Rama Arauco, the LDS branch, was small, but had a young, dynamic president who answered all our questions. He is an engineer at the wood products plant and financed his degree with a Perpetual Education Fund loan.</div>
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After visiting with Elena Andrea about a possible PEF loan, we saved the family a long walk by driving them home.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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This is our third week of teaching a class of English for You Now Tuesdays and Thursdays, to a group meeting in the Institute building. We usually have an attendance of 15-20. Our students are bright, articulate, and speak English pretty well.</div>
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We made a special order to the copper man for this Plancha of the Washington D.C. temple. He did an amazing job on it. It is on its way to Florida to one of my favorite couples.</div>
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We found a juego de sartenes - set of pans - fine German cookware on a good sale at a restaurant supply shop, and bought it so we could give pieces to people we love. We gave the large pan and pot to Maria Conejo, who cooks so many dinners for so many missionaries, and were told she put it on the table to look at it, and wouldn't cook with it for a week. She is cooking with it now, and discovers she saves on food costs because it doesn't burn.</div>
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Sunday we drove to Penco so I could accompany Romy's women's Christmas chorus and the Penco full-time missionary choir on the piano. President Arrington had unwisely transferred the young missionary sister who was accompanying the chorus, and since he had taken her away, he had to replace her with another sister missionary.</div>
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We could smell roast peanuts from the confiterie cart across the street, a welcome change from the often unusual smells of Penco.</div>
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The missionaries and women's chorus started gathering. Eventually the entire stand was full and overflowing of young voices. It was a pleasure to accompany them.</div>
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The stake presiden'ts wife Solange, who knows just what to do with a big chorus of young people. They sounded wonderful. Our presentation will be on December 20th.</div>
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The third weekend in November we headed for the District of Linares to visit two of the branches and give Self Reliance and Perpetual Education Fund informational meetings. The weekend was perfect for traveling.</div>
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The fields were green, with the Andes mountains in the distance.</div>
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Past Chillan, we saw rice fields and rice processing plants.</div>
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One of the plazas in Linares, not far from our hotel.</div>
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After researching hotels in Linares online, I found the Hotel Curapalihue, which turned out to be a real winner. It is on a nice quiet half-street, and the concierge looked like he was about 90 years old, so it must be a safe neighborhood, too.</div>
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Our room was in the rather quaint stucco building behind the main building.</div>
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We deserved this. The desayuno, breakfast, on Sunday and Monday morning was simple and elegant.</div>
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The room was simple and tastefully decorated. In Latin America, it is not unusual to have two twin-sized beds instead of a queen or king bed.</div>
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From our window you could see the main Catholic cathedral and bell tower.</div>
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We went exploring and ended up getting ice cream cones and pineapple orange juice. Being inland, it was noticeably warmer in Linares, and less windy than Concepcion, although it was quite chilly in the morning.</div>
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In the morning we attended one of the branches on Avenida Valentin Letelier. It was better attended than many wards we have visited, by a vigorous group of members. All three smart and friendly members of the district presidency were in attendance, we think to make sure the North American missionaries made it safely for the meetings later in the afternoon.</div>
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After church we were invited to almuerzo at the Minches, the senior missionary couple assigned to Linares, along with four elders. As we drove up to their house we were immediately jealous. Not only because they live in a house at least three or four times larger than our apartment, but they also have a parking spot, furniture, insulated curtains, and a real, if very small, yard.</div>
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The Pulsiphers, who returned home from serving in Chillan several months ago, left behind all their furniture, which the Minches inherited. Sigh. Not that it would fit in our apartment.</div>
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The four elders, including one gringo and two South Americans, plus the tall elder from Spain who was feeling sick. I gave him some ibuprofen. Hermana Minch outdid herself with sweet and sour over rice, salad, vegetables, homemade rolls, and pudding for dessert.</div>
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Our afternoon meetings were held in the District Center on Max Jara, which looks quite different than most of the buildings we have seen in Chile. We spent an hour with the Self Reliance committee, and another hour or so with a group of people who were interested in the Perpetual Education Fund. The meetings went very well, and we met some wonderful people.</div>
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Monday morning we got back on Ruta 5 going south. Since there is often neblina--mist, or niebla--fog, on this highway, there are markers on the asphalt that show how fast you should be going.</div>
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Thursday was Thanksgiving at the Arrington's condo with all the other senior missionaries. I spent the morning making Grandma Kennington's recipe for rolls, and an apple pie with Costco cinnamon. Granny Smith apples are in good supply at this time of year, along with blueberries, strawberries, huge juicy cherries, asparagus, and mangos. There is hardly need to eat anything else.</div>
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Pretty fuchsia hanging over the condo balcony. Since we have to renew our Oregon driver's license while we are overseas, we fortunately were able to cross the hallway to make a request of the Concepcion South Mission President Bluth, an ophthalmologist, who gave us a vision test.</div>
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Our latest weaving group has finished their studies and were having refreshments while showing off their certificates.</div>
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The talented hermana showing off her woven bag with felted flower decorations.</div>
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Her very pretty needle felted figures.</div>
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Saturday, stake Self-Reliance specialists showed up from all over the region for materials and training. We were able to make contact with several leaders whose stakes and districts we will be visiting in the next few months.</div>
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This week we attended Barrio Penco, which is one of the sweetest and most loving of wards. The members welcomed us warmly, and when one of the elderly ladies fainted during a meeting, the bishop stood up and calmly made assignments to everyone concerned with taking care of her. We loved attending this ward.<br />
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Few members knew about changes in the Perpetual Education Fund, so we gave out materials and had another impromptu meeting under the direction of the bishop to explain it all.<br />
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The view from the second story of the Penco chapel, across the Bay of Concepcion to the Naval Base on Talcahuano, where we played golf last week.</div>
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A photo of me beside the ward building.</div>
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This was the last week of classes for weaving and felting. I wanted to take a photo of our smiling Nuvia and her Nativity figures, so she had to dress up specially in her uniform.</div>
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Our favorite weaver also does exquisite needle felting, as would be expected.</div>
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For our week's adventure all the senior missionaries, including the two new office couples, visited the Zoo Concepcion in Valle Nonguen, south of Collao. We had been told it was just a small zoo, but it certainly held its own with all the zoos I've visited. The Chilean greeter insisted on taking photos of everyone as we came in.</div>
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Cabras de la Isla Juan Fernandez, miniature goats from Robinson Crusoe's islands due west of Valparaiso.</div>
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Among the lovely birds in the laguna section was this Caiquen, with a habitat ranging from the Cone of South America (Chile and Argentina) to the Straits of Magellan.</div>
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The central exhibit was an Andean Condor, a beautiful fellow who seemed to know he was being photographed. He kindly posed for us wearing this beatific smile.</div>
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Llamas are ferocious protectors of sheep, and are often herded with them.</div>
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Not being a fan of monkeys in general, I still couldn't resist taking a photo of this Papion Sagrada, Sacred Baboon. I don't know what was sacred about him, with the evil eye he was giving me. </div>
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Peuco, the Mapundungan word for Harris' Hawk, <i>Parabueto Unicinctus</i>, which ranges from the southwest coast of the United States to Chile and Argentina. These birds resemble peregrine falcons.</div>
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Native Chilean Pudu, the Mapundungan name for the world's smallest deer. These Pudu are eating their grain first and leaving the vegetables for last. </div>
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The zoo even boasted two beautiful white tigers, a Bengal tiger, and a brown bear.</div>
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Liebre Mara or Patagonian Hare, or, as Elder Pendley likes to call them, Jackalopes.</div>
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My photos of the gigantic brown bear were not successful, but I did get a nice picture of his name, BooBoo the Bear. Bilz and Pap are popular strawberry and papaya flavored soft drinks in Chile.</div>
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The Emus' rather shaggy hairdos made me laugh, until this one started to yawn, after which I started yawning.</div>
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Our new senior missionaries, the Lees and the Wynns, sent from Arizona and Boise, to help in the Concepcion Sur and Concepcion Mission offices. The Pendleys and the Kauers are delighted to have them.</div>
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More tired missionaries, at the end of the trail at the Parque Zoologico Concepcion.</div>
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Having visited Tumbes on the Talcahuano peninsula for the first time on Saturday, of course we went back for the second time on Wednesday. On our first trip we had passed the Club Naval golf course, and Elder K. was duly impressed by the grounds and expressed a wish to play there. </div>
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We ran into two elders in a stake center we were visiting, and since they had been given special permission, we asked if they would like to accompany us. They said they would.</div>
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Our Sunday visit was to the Hualpencillo Ward in Talcahuano South Stake. The members here are dedicated, with firm testimonies.</div>
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Wednesday morning, the elders met us at the Self Reliance Center, then we took off for the golf club on Chile's main naval base on the Bay of Concepcion.</div>
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Club Naval de Campo Tumbes. The weather was sunny, warm, and breezy -- just perfect.</div>
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Elder Kennington and two delightful young missionaries, Elder McAllister and Elder Hoopes.</div>
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The greens were immaculately kept, the trees well established, and the golfers were thrilled. We had the entire 50-acre grounds to ourselves.</div>
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Some of the holes had spectacular views over the Bahia de Concepcion. We could see Penco, Lirquen and Tome.</div>
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Overlooking the shipping yard and submarine base</div>
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Elder Hoopes takes a shot. I am not sure if anyone cared about the score. A few days after this golf outing, Elder Hoopes was made a zone leader in Penco.</div>
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Since I don't really golf (the less said about that, the better), I was enjoying the smell of the pines, the cleanliness and beauty of the grounds, and taking photos of wildflowers.</div>
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These pretty little birds accompanied us the entire time. I tried to get them to fly to show off their white wings with black markings, but they mostly just ran along the ground.</div>
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Weeds along the ground, but pretty nonetheless</div>
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An interesting mushroom. After two hours and nine holes, the golfers were getting hungry and thirsty, so we reluctantly said goodbye to the Club Naval de Campo Tumbes.</div>
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Since Caleta Tumbes was just a few miles down the winding hilly road, we drove there for lunch. Above is a photo of a patient fisherman repairing his nets.</div>
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Along the little street we saw several restaurants, and decided on Tia Ely's.</div>
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Two happy elders eating cheese empanadas with onions and cilantro. We all ordered the Reineta a la Plancha, a delicious grilled whitefish served with a pile of french fries. </div>
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We watched ongoing ship repairs from the second floor of Tia Ely's. </div>
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Another goodbye to Tumbes, and a wonderful day out for two hard working elders and for us.</div>
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The first Sunday in November we attended Barrio Cruz del Sur, named for the Southern Cross.</div>
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This is a dynamic, well-run ward in the Talcahuano North Stake. One of the hermanas told us this is the ward Area Seventy Elder Zeballos and his family attended when they lived here.</div>
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I thought this was <i>Bellis Perennis</i> blooming in a vacant lot near the Institute building, but it is <i>Erigeron Karvinskianus, </i>Latin American fleabane, native to South America. I am thinking we will have to pick a bucket full of these tiny daisies for when the weather gets warmer and fleas become more active.</div>
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I finally got a photo of the hermano who makes copper engravings, white beard and all. He comes to the mission office on the day of Cambios, when missionaries whose service has ended are taken to the airport for the journey home, and new missionaries are picked up.</div>
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His rendering of the Concepcion Temple, scheduled to be built sometime in the future.</div>
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Tuesday and Thursday evening we attended a Planning for Success Workshop for potential Perpetual Education Fund participants, for members of the Chiguayante Stake. The teacher, Hermana Silva, was thoroughly prepared and did an excellent job. It was interesting hearing the different reasons for wanting further education and how the students would go about it.</div>
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Saturday we joined the Kauers for an outing to the northern tip of the Talcahuano peninsula on the Bay of Concepcion.</div>
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Caleta Tumbes is a charming fishing village complete with its fleet of vessels.</div>
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San Pedro, the patron saint of fishermen. As can be expected, this part of Talcahuano was hit especially hard by the 8.8 2010 earthquake and tsunami.</div>
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From the pier you could see Isla Quiriquina and the reef along the northern part of the Bay of Concepcion, which blocked some of the worst effects of the earthquake tsunami.</div>
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For lunch we went farther down the peninsula to Caleta Lenga, where we knew there were good restaurants. The two farmboys Elder Kennington and Elder Kauer were pleased to come across a Mahindra tractor, which reminded them of their life before becoming missionaries.</div>
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We saw a disappointed group of ladies wearing sunhats coming out of the alley in front of the Restaurant El Mono, The Monkey, the owner of which told them it was not open at 11:00 in the morning, so we thought we would come back at 12:00 noon along with everyone else. Plus, it had a bathroom.</div>
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In the second floor of the Restaurant El Mono. We ordered a Lomo a lo Pobre and cheese and seafood empanadas, served with onion and cilantro. The Kauers ordered salmon and boiled potatoes. It was all good.</div>
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Hermana Kauer on the promenade along the beach after purchasing another over-the-shoulder bag, since her first one is getting a lot of wear. She is wearing a lilac-colored wool manta she bought from one of the Ecuadorans, since although the day was sunny and beautiful, the morning was still chilly and windy.</div>
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I bought a pair of bombachos, baggy pants with pockets and drawstring waist and ankles, which are very comfortable and made with a pretty fabric. The bombachos and the passport case were sold by Ecuadorans from the Otavalo province, where many of the Ecuadorans in Concepcion are from. The copper earrings I bought for more wall hangings I am making. The man selling them called the bird-shaped earrings "Aymara" -- probably the grey-hooded South American parakeet, although it might also be a reference to the Aymara people of the Andes in Peru.</div>
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A few more photos from our trip to Lota last week. Our Pulperia tour guide was a gentle soul, another ex-miner. He stands in the kitchen area of one of the miners' apartments.</div>
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The Pulperia, company general store. The roller is for flattening bread dough so it can be cooked in the outdoor oven. The portrait above is of Baldomero Lilli, a social writer who exposed the conditions of miners in his short story "Subterra."</div>
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Implements for cooking bread in the adobe oven.</div>
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Inside the Cousiño mansion across town.</div>
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Stuffed peacock under glass in the second floor walkway. Peacock is translated as pavo real, royal turkey.</div>
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Sunday we attended Barrio Esmeralda in the Estaca Talcahuano Sur in Hualpén. We let them know about the changes in the Perpetual Education Fund, which they were not aware of.</div>
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This week we had a visit from Mauricio Fernandez, who came from Santiago to give us more training in the CRM, the complex Client Relations Management software used in tracking participants in PEF. While he was there our computers were not behaving well, which is not a bad thing, since he said he will look into providing us with new ones. Hopefully.<br />
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I've had my eye on the beautiful Mapuche-style lapiz lazuli silver earrings in the Buenos Aires jewelry shop on Caupolican near Barros Arana. I will probably make two necklaces out of them! Plus I couldn't resist the silver filigree.</div>
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Elder K., who does not appreciate earrings like I do, was finally persuaded to invest in a pair of handmade leather shoes by the owner of the Navarro shoe repair shop on Serrano between Cochrane and San Martin. They are based on a pair of leather Bass shoes. He says they fit perfectly and were comfortable from the beginning. Now he is having another pair made in brown leather.</div>
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On Halloween Friday, we had a pot luck in the mission office with the senior missionaries and young office elders. Other wandering missionaries of the Concepcion and Concepcion South Missions kindly cleaned up the leftovers of "real American food."<br />
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We celebrated Elder Balden's birthday, using all the candles we could find, even if the age wasn't quite accurate.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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My new Mapuche weaving project made with beautiful hand-dyed yarn. (the turquoise yarn is temporary.) Romy says the colors are "melancólica."</div>
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On our walk home Friday afternoon, the weather was sunny, cool and perfect.</div>
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Photos are not mine, but are of Día de los Difuntos--Day of the Dead--or Día de los Santos, during which Chileans visit cemeteries, clean up gravesites, and place flowers everywhere. This is the quietest day of the year in Concepcion.</div>
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Día de los Difuntos, the day after Halloween, is one of the biggest flower days of the Chilean year.</div>
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The third week of October was sunny and in the 70s. Several Chileans told us it was getting too warm.</div>
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We attended Barrio San Vicente in the Talcahuano North Stake, a warm, friendly ward. We made contact with several people who needed help with their PEF loans or were interested in a better education.</div>
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On Monday we stopped at the mission office to unload some of the things we have been accumulating in our little apartment. We have been informed that we will not be moving south to Temuco after all, but staying in Concepción. It is still good to get rid of things you don't need. </div>
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Above is a photo of Elder Kauer's shelves for extra missionary clothing. Missionaries can choose what they need or drop off what they don't use anymore. Whatever is too worn out, Hna. Kauer crochets into round rugs.</div>
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Tuesday we attended a zone conference with the Concepción elders and the elders and sisters serving in Chiguayante. We are impressed with these young missionaries.</div>
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On Saturday, the senior missionaries went on an outing down to Lota, south of Coronel.</div>
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The Chiflón del Diablo coal mine, which closed in 1997, is in Lota. Chiflón means a draft of air, since the mine is naturally ventilated. The mine follows a seam of bituminous coal 12 miles under the ocean, although the seam itself goes on for miles. It was closed for economic reasons. </div>
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Here we are in our hard hats, which are colored according to status. Blue is for mechanics and electricians, red and yellow are for manual laborers, and white is for managers. We wore 5 lb. battery packs, which last for a day.</div>
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Our guide, Daniel, son and grandson of illiterate miners, was a miner until 1996, when 16,0000 miners in four mines were fired overnight. He is no taller than I am. Here he is explaining about the canary cage and different ways to avoid death by odorless gases. He sang us a heart-rending rendition of the miner's hymn.</div>
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Walking down the mine while you could still stand up.</div>
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Elder Kauer and Elder Balden had to walk doubled over to get through some of the tunnels.</div>
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A seam of coal encased in petrified wood. Daniel told us the mine is too young to have been compressed enough to become anthracite coal or to contain diamonds.</div>
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Daniel took a photo of me pulling myself up the wet, steep tunnel to the surface. Small horses were pressed into service hauling loads of coal up these steep shafts. After two years they would go blind from walking in the dark.</div>
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From the mouth of the mine, you could see where you had been underwater, where the spit of land comes out. The mine is as deep as one mile under the ocean, and tunnels were dug ten feet deep and shored with oak beams, so that when the weight of land and water inevitably compressed the shaft to five feet, you could still crawl through.</div>
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After the mine tour, we walked through a reconstruction of the company store and living quarters of the miners, built for the filming of the movie "Subterra."</div>
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The Pulpería, general store, was actually built on a larger scale than the original buildings.</div>
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Inside the general store, with its flour, garlic, peppers, soap, vinegar, and bag after bag of yerba mate that the miners drank daily.</div>
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Up to fourteen people lived in each two-level apartment. Downstairs was the living and cooking area.</div>
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The communal horno, oven, made of adobe and straw. To test the heat of the oven, you threw in a little flour. If it cooked too fast, you would sweep the inside of the oven with a wet broom. When it was the right temperature, you placed your loaves inside, marked with your particular mark, then covered the oven with a wet rag. When the rag was dry, the bread was done.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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On the other side of Lota, down Avenida Cousiño, was the mansion of the Cousiño family, owner of the Chiflón del Diablo mine. Proceeds from the mine, besides building the mansion and the extensive gardens, went to building a Catholic cathedral and also were paid to city officials.</div>
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Toward the gardens was the estate administrator's house, now being restored.</div>
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Piscina de espejo, reflecting pool or mirror pool.</div>
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Although these are marked Paulownia, they do not have the heart-shaped leaves typical of Paulownias. I think this is a mis-marked azalea.</div>
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Venus surrounded by calla lilies and lotus flowers. There was a wedding going on nearby. If you were in love, you were supposed to stand with your back toward Venus and throw a coin in the fountain. If you weren't in love, you could just throw in a coin without going to all that trouble.</div>
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On our way back to Concepción, we turned onto the highway to Santa Juana to the Hacienda Patagonia, an upscale restaurant. It was Hna. Bluth's birthday, so we were treated to a royal buffet.</div>
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The hardworking senior missionaries of the Concepción and Concepción South mission offices: the Baldens, Kauers, and Pendleys.</div>
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Patty Kennington-Rookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07923529388771666857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517250813718064319.post-79254279418090685612014-10-19T03:40:00.000-07:002014-12-24T04:26:23.810-08:00 Return to Santiago<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We were invited to Manolito's 7th birthday party, so we took the micro bus to Avenida Bulnes and walked the rest of the way to Andrea and Manuel's house.</div>
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Piña, pineapple, is Manolito's favorite, but he had eaten too many completos to want much cake. We gave him a nice art paper tablet and watercolor pencils.</div>
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Andrea served us completos, hot dogs on buns with mayonesa, tomatoes, ketchup, and rinsed chucrut, sauerkraut. We may eat sauerkraut more often, now that we know it should be rinsed before eating.</div>
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Andrea wondered if I could make business cards for her. Since I only had Microsoft Office to work with in the Centro, I used the drawing tools in the Insert Shapes tab in Word to recreate her Ayun--illuminated heart--logo, then inserted it into a Publisher business card template. She was thrilled.</div>
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On Sunday we attended Barrio Independencia in the Talcahuano North Stake, at Hna. Rosa's recommendation. This was an extremely well-run ward, with good priesthood leadership and excellent teaching.</div>
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Hno. Seguel told us we were invited to a meeting in Santiago with the LDS Church general authority Elder Enrique Falabella, who oversees the Perpetual Education Fund and Self Reliance initiative. Above, white oxalis, which is overtaking the fading yellow oxalis we have seen all over Concepcion, blooms outside the LDS Institute parking garage.</div>
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We joined Bro. Seguel for the drive to Santiago. One of the Seguels' neighbors's beautiful lavender-colored crape myrtle (I think!) blooms along the street.</div>
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The cordillera was in view for most of the drive.</div>
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We stopped in Talca north of Linares, a very pleasant municipality, so Hno. Seguel could give a check to a Perpetual Education Fund participant, making it possible for him to continue his stalled education. He was stunned and grateful.</div>
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Bro. Seguel told us many buildings in Talca were originally of adobe brick, like the wall above, which has not fallen down yet because it is not very high. The 2010 earthquake was devastating for Talca because of so many adobe brick buildings.</div>
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Between Talca and Rancagua we passed dozens of businesses along the highway, including row upon row of basket displays.<span style="text-align: left;"> Even without Elder K.'s stern warning, I realize I will have to leave the baskets behind.</span></div>
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Rancagua is where the cordillera and the Pacific Ocean are fairly close together. This area is also dryer than south toward Concepcion, making it excellent for growing wine grapes.</div>
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The fields were larger as we drove north toward Santiago. The larger fields have proven more productive than small fields broken off from larger farms, which in some areas are not even cultivated anymore.</div>
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While Santiago boasts many new buildings, in the Providencia district, where the LDS Church headquarters are found, you can see some fine old buildings, often university classrooms or fraternity houses.</div>
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After our arrival, we had enough time to attend a session at the LDS Temple. The grounds are always beautiful. Here the dimorfoteca -- osteospermum dimorphotheca, African Daisy or Cape Daisy, which love, love, love Chile--are blooming like crazy.</div>
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We got out of the sealing session pretty late. The temple is beautiful at night.</div>
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We stayed in the Bonaparte Hotel, a few blocks away. The shower must have had a water restriction device on it, but the bed was comfortable.</div>
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In the morning we attended meetings with gentle, deep-voiced Elder Falabella, who was born and raised in Guatemala; Guido Lucas, the newly called, dynamic and well-spoken South America South Area Self-Reliance Manager, who is from Argentina; and the charming, redoubtable Uruguayan David Rodriguez, PEF Project Manager, who sprinkled funny dichos, or sayings, throughout his comments. </div>
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I had to write some of the sayings down and ask what they meant, for example, "meter la cuchara" means stick your spoon in the middle of things, like the English saying "jump right in"; "la realidad milanesa," referring to the reality of a Milanese breaded meat cutlet, a popular menu item in South America, especially on the other side of the cordillera; "calma la tripa," break for lunch so you can calm your growling tummy; and a reference to Elder Kennington's eloquence with the ladies (something I informed Bro. Rodriguez about,) as "buen labios," good lips.</div>
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Elder Kennington and I in a photo taken by Elder Livingston, senior missionary serving with his wife in Republica, Santiago</div>
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We especially wanted to thank Daglin, the daughter of our Concepcion volunteer Hna. Debora, who is our go-to expert on questions pertaining to PEF, and who works in the offices here in Santiago. She has been invaluable to us over the last few months.</div>
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Also at our meeting was one of my favorite Chilenas, Hna. Calquin, who posed for a picture. She was demonstrating a few Cueca steps in the hallway, and lamenting the fact that she had given up the dance for the length of her 2-year mission.</div>
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While waiting for Hno. Seguel and Elder K. in the church headquarters parking lot, I had a nice conversation with the artist who makes the copper engravings I have seen hanging in the homes of both Concepcion mission presidents. I'm just sorry I didn't take a picture of him, with his weathered face and curling white hair. I ended up buying several beautiful Christmas cards with copper medallions on them, for $1.6 mil pesos each, about $2.75 U.S. dollars.</div>
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Hno. Seguel had some business to attend to downtown, so we were able to see more fine old buildings. Micro buses and colectivos, the black and yellow Chilean taxi, are a common sight in the urban center.</div>
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I brought my Black Skirt and my Brown Skirt to wear on this trip, no surprises there. Here I am wearing my Brown Skirt in front of the Municipal Theater of Santiago. The fingers behind my head didn't belong to Elder K.</div>
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I believe this is an example of retamo in tree form, as Hna. Verdugo explained it to me.</div>
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Although we had been over-fed the whole trip, Hno. Seguel wanted to treat us to an example of "lomo a lo pobre," poor man's loin steak, traditionally served with two eggs, french fries, and caramelized onions, at a roadside restaurant. It was more than a poor man could probably afford, although it was tasty. Elder K. and I shared a plate, and it was still too much. We had to ask for ketchup.</div>
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The sun setting on our drive back to Chillán and Concepción.</div>
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Patty Kennington-Rookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07923529388771666857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517250813718064319.post-57835010414127762282014-10-12T04:13:00.000-07:002014-10-12T13:19:24.515-07:00One year anniversary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This week marks our one year anniversary as missionaries. The first weekend of October 2013 we watched General Conference with my sister Karen and her husband Pres. David in Salt Lake City. The following Monday morning we were dropped off at the Missionary Training Center in Provo.<br />
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This first Sunday in October 2014 we attended our own Barrio Universitario on Avenida Gleisner, which is also the Concepcion Stake Center. We watched a session of General Conference in Castellano. I must say my Spanish has improved over the last year.<br />
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The day was brilliant, fresh and cool.</div>
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At the bottom of the stairs on our way home. The chapel was full and the cultural hall had overflow seating. We were able to visit with a number of people we wanted to see.</div>
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We visited our bishop, who lives in this apartment, to tell him that we have been assigned to finish out the last five months of our mission setting up a Self Reliance Center in Temuco, about a 4 - 5 hour drive to the south. We will most likely be leaving Concepcion at the end of October.</div>
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The rhododendrons have nearly finished blooming.</div>
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The Plaza de España, with its Condor de los Vientos statue, and the government buildings of the Bio Bio Region VIII, Concepción, on Calle Arturo Prat.</div>
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We walked up Barros Araña, which has been undergoing an upgrade to its walking spaces. The newly-laid tile and concrete is much less broken up than the sidewalks on Chacabuco.</div>
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Wednesday we were invited to almuerzo with the Conejos, after we told them we are probably going to be moving away. They were very sad, but then thought maybe they could visit us in Temuco. Above is the inner entrance to their ground level apartment.</div>
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Also having almuerzo with us were four office missionaries, who enjoyed the pork, rice, potatoes, tomatoes, sliced onions and toasted kernels of corn. The salsa ají, hot sauce that Hermana Conejo had made, had maní, peanuts, in it. Since one of the elders is allergic, and had spread the sauce all over his food, I exchanged my plate with him. I brought apple turnovers, empanadas de manzana, which taste just like American apple pie, a welcome surprise to the North Americans. When Hna. Conejo asked for the recipe, I had to tell her it included Saigon (Costco) cinnamon, which cannot be had in Chile.</div>
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Maria Conejo and her husband work very hard and have suffered many setbacks in their lives. Maria wants to go to the United States to sell her artesanal, handmade Ecuadoran items, to make enough money to ensure her children have a better life. Here she is weaving brazaletes, handmade wrist bracelets out of narrow colorful thread, by pinning the end of the braids onto a piece of cloth wrapped around her knees.</div>
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Since I have 18 grandchildren, I bought several of the very pretty brazaletes. They were $1 mil pesos each, about $1.80.</div>
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This week we made our monthly visit to the mother and grandmother of Marcia, the missionary sister in Peru. The two women, who are now accustomed to us, are very talkative and happy since their baptism. On the way out of the lane to their house are planters made from old tires, planted with pink Jupiter's Beard, lavender hollyhocks, and daisy-like white and purple osteospermum, which grow abundantly in Concepción.</div>
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Hermana Dulce, our name for her since she is always handing out sweets, showing us her latest knitting project for her customer families in the U.S.</div>
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Several times this week, traffic around Concepcion has come to a standstill because of student marches for free college education. Up to two thousand students will take part in these demonstrations. One of the promises of the current president was to provide free college education, but it has not happened yet. Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay have free college education, and Chile is hoping to avoid the problems that go along with it.</div>
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Sunday morning we were planning to drive to the LDS Branch where the Rio Laja flows into the Bio-Bio, but the day before, the intrepid Elder and Hermana Pendley reported getting lost on dirt roads driving there. Besides, it was raining, and we were low on gas, so we decided to save Rama Laja for another day and instead attended the Chiguay Ward.</div>
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The Chiguay ward was well-attended and active, and we met a number of people we knew--ladies from the weaving classes, students from our English classes, and applicants for the Perpetual Education Fund. In fact, it was providential that we were there--one hermana needed a certificate and Elder K.'s signature, so we printed it out in the clerk's office and she uploaded it into her account "al tiro," like a shot, right away.</div>
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After the meetings we were invited to have dinner with a member family. We followed their van toward Cerro Manquimávida, the dominant wooded hill in that part of Chiguayante.</div>
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The family home, where the dueña, hostess, served us rice, beef, pancito - rolls, salad, and postre--fresh fruit and vanilla liquid yogurt. She kept apologizing that it was not fancy, but we told her we were campesinos and liked it that way.</div>
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More missionaries on their P-day, preparation day. We often see packs of them buying groceries in Jumbo, eating ice cream cones, checking out shops and galleries along Barros Araña, or walking on the street, like the hermanas above.</div>
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We even saw missionaries in the Fuente Alemana on Bernardo O'Higgins near Rengo, which was recommended to us as one of the best places to eat in Concepción. The place was packed, a good sign. We ordered sandwiches--me, this shredded pork with tomatoes, chucrut--rinsed sauerkraut--and plenty of mayonesa. Elder Kennington ordered churrasco, a sliced beef steak sandwich. Both were excellent.</div>
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On the way home we passed the remains of this old wall built in the late 1700s, the original site for the first library and printing press in Concepción.</div>
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Tuesday we tried "El Mesón de Villena" on San Martin near Calle Salas, where the men of the Operations and Maintenance office often eat. It is the closest thing to a fast food lunch counter we have seen--tables already set with drink, bread and salad, only a few main selections, and fast service. I had chicken with mashed potatoes, soup and salad, standard for a Chilean almuerzo, midday meal.</div>
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Thursday we were invited to the Mamut Restaurant on Barros Araña between Colo Colo and Anibal Pinto, with the Pendleys, Baldens, and Arringtons, to celebrate Hna. Kauer's birthday. Mamut has branches all over the world and serves American-style food. Hermana Kauer had a chimichanga. I had baby back ribs. Pretty girls on the walk outside were handing out coupons, so we all got free raspberry cheesecake for dessert. Thank you Hermana Kauer for having a birthday.</div>
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After so many restaurants, Elder Kennington and I are getting into the habit of running up the stairs to the 7th floor instead of taking the elevator. It seems to be helping.</div>
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This cute hermana, who looks like she's about twelve years old, is taking Elder K.'s Planning for Success workshop for the Perpetual Education Fund. She has already had two years of university training in Occupational Therapy. She was helping Elder K. figure out how to use the camera on his cell phone (again). It looks like he did ok.</div>
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Racemes of the pink Tamarisk tree, Tamarix Ramosissima, beginning to bloom.</div>
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Hna. Verdugo stopped by to say hello, and to show us these cute buho--owl--book bags she has been weaving for her grandchildren.</div>
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Patty Kennington-Rookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07923529388771666857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-517250813718064319.post-74154415710068022382014-09-28T03:52:00.001-07:002014-09-28T03:52:03.606-07:00Tierra Bella<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The first day of Primavera, Spring, 21 September, 2014.<br />
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It is still raining a lot, accompanied by spring flowers in and around Concepcion.</div>
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Blooming in every corner of Concepcion are Jacintos, Spanish bluebells, Hyacinthoides Hispanica.</div>
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La Cueca, the national dance of Chile, performed by a young couple in the Concepcion Stake, Fiestas Patrias, 18 September</div>
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On Sunday the first day of spring, we visited the Tierra Bella ward. Cristina, of the Relief Society presidency, is the sister of Gabriel Parra, (who reminds us of George Clooney and who is now a counselor in the Concepcion South Mission presidency). She is also the sister of Lily, President Arrington's wonderful cook. I admired a necklace she was wearing, which she promptly took off her own neck and put on mine. "That's the way she is," said one of the hermanas. <br />
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We came across a pair of elders walking to the church, so we drove them back to their house we had helped paint the week before, so they could drop off our donations of a couple of new cooking pans, some clean kitchen towels, peanut butter, and other necessities. Then we drove them back to the Tierra Bella chapel.</div>
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Although Fiestas Patrias are over, many buildings still fly the Chilean flag. Each building is required by law to fly the flag on national holidays.</div>
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Monday the Arringtons invited everyone over for a goodbye dinner for the Herreras, a service couple from Curico-Molina.</div>
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Hermana Herrera, in the center, always asks about my weaving, knitting and crocheting. When she found out I like flowers and plants, she told me the names of several of them in the grounds surrounding the Arrington's apartment, including ferns, helhecho,which she said (especially the ones in the picture above) were in the sun too much and turning yellow.</div>
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The Minches and the Scholes, Member and Leadership Support couples, were also there. Above is a picture of the Minches with Hermana Arrington.</div>
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In this picture you can see the pretty necklace Cristina gave me.</div>
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The grounds were beautiful, including this camellia bush.</div>
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Once again, driving past the temple site along the highway in Pedro de Valdivia.</div>
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September 14 we drove to the pleasant country town of Yumbel in the Los Angeles North Stake.</div>
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The early morning fog combined with smoke from wood burning stoves.</div>
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Trees along the highway covered with parasitic mistletoe, the native Chilean Misodendrum Punctulatum, which blackens as it dies and dries out.</div>
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A campesino with his oxcart on the outskirts of Yumbel.</div>
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Bienvenidos a Yumbel. We saw many nice haciendas along the highway.</div>
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The Sunday farmer's market was already underway, selling decorations as well as costumes of the Huaso, the Chilean cowboy, for the Fiestas Patrias later in the week.</div>
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We wandered around town looking for the usual green-gated LDS chapel, but realized we had passed right by this large house on Avenida Los Carrera which serves as the meetinghouse. Two sisters of the Relief Society stand outside chatting.</div>
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Before the meetings, Elder Kennington introduced himself to an elder from Argentina and one tall blond Norteamericano. One of the speakers had not shown up for Sacrament Meeting, so Elder Kennington got to give an impromptu discourse on Self Reliance.</div>
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Following the meetings, we passed this hacienda, the business of which evidently has something to do with large earthenware jars.</div>
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Yellow pea-flower shrubs blooming profusely along the highway. Referred to as retamo, broom, the plants pictured above might be of one of a handful of different varieties. These are most likely Spanish broom or weaver's broom, which has become invasive in Chile.</div>
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In the evening we went to Andrea's for haircuts. One of her weaving students had given her a bouquet of lilies for her birthday the week before. I gave her a bottle of ibuprofen, as well as the wall hanging she had admired.</div>
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Wednesday we had an almuerzo with the volunteers at the Centro and the men in the Operations and Maintenance office in anticipation of Fiestas Patrias, the commemoration of Chilean independence in 1810. Bro. Seguel provided plenty of Chilean empanadas filled with pino, a mixture of chopped beef and onion, hard-boiled egg, raisins, and olives. Manolito, who was sitting next to me, does not like aceitunas, olives, and allowed me to eat his. </div>
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Wednesday afternoon the Kauers asked us to help with one of the elders' apartments in Chiguayante. The Bio-Bio River is high after the winter rains, and the little islands were sparkling in the sun.</div>
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This little two-story casa has housed LDS missionaries for more than ten years. Four elders live here, and it was run down enough that it needed repainting in places and a little TLC. Hna. Kauer had the elders clean up the tiny back yard while we swept, then scrubbed out the kitchen and showers, including walls and ceiling, while Elder Kauer and Elder Kennington applied much-needed coats of paint to bedroom and hallway walls. Hna. Kauer promised the missionaries she would give them her next crocheted rug to kneel on while they said their prayers on the hard brick floor. </div>
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Thursday the Concepcion Stake had events planned all day and into the late evening for the Fiestas Patrias, part of an entire week of events. Here two members of Barrio Universitario raise the Chilean flag to the strains of the Himno Nacional de Chile, Cancion Nacional, the National Anthem.</div>
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We were told this type of dress with the side slit and ruffle, worn by one of the bishops' wives, is for ease in mounting a horse, and is more likely worn by women of the upper class. I especially like the copihue belt. Huaso outfits often include the color fringe like this sister is wearing.</div>
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Following the dancing of the cueca were kermesses, open-air fair games. In the country there are rodeos and foot races, but we were in town, and the kids were playing chess.</div>
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. . . and a tug of war. It was early in the day and all the gringos were in attendance, so it turned into an international competition. Since the North American sisters were wearing dresses and heels, we preferred being dragged gently over the line by the determined Chilenas, but the Elders were made of sterner stuff. Plus, Elder Kauer is twice the size of many Chilean men, so they redeemed the North American hermanas by winning their rope pull.</div>
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Next was sack races, but we had been invited to the Arringtons to try out steaks on their new grill, and Hna. Arrington came up with a few cans of cold A&W root beer. So we didn't stay for the plays that would be put on by each of the five wards, and more dancing. </div>
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Friday was one of the quietest days we have spent in Concepcion. Many people had left town for festivities in the countryside, and all the stores were closed. Saturday was also very quiet, and the streets nearly empty. The Chilean people take their Fiestas Patrias to heart, and we enjoyed spending it with them.</div>
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September 7th we visited the Frutillares Branch in Tomé, on the coast of the Bay of Concepción north of Penco and Lirquen.<br />
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I forgot to include this photo in last week's post. Before we left Salto del Laja, one shop opened up, and I found these lapices - crayon pencils made of small branches - for grandchildren. Who cares if they even color very well.</div>
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Sunday morning was gray and rainy. There was a big squiggle in the map we printed out, and it ended up being the old highway which had several hair-raising backwards curves, while going sharply downhill toward the ocean. The return highway was a real improvement.</div>
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The Frutillares Branch building. All the meetings were timely, and the members were soft-spoken and reverent. During breaks between meetings, the members sang hymns in the chapel. It is one of the most musical places we have visited in Chile.</div>
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The chapel itself was well cared for and pretty. The building was remodeled and actually has central heating. Romy, who attends this ward, sang a duet with her music director, who was playing the keyboard as well as singing harmony.</div>
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Driving along the highway out of Tome.</div>
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Marker for the commune and municipality of Tome.</div>
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Neighborhoods of housing built after the earthquake, which struck Tome hard.</div>
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South of Tome, north of Penco, is the municipality of Lirquen along the coast.</div>
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Above, carabineros making their presence known on Calle Serrano. We saw big green tank-like trucks on the street for several days. Wednesday, after a Planning for Success workshop, Manuel and Andrea walked us home, for safety's sake. I had sent to Salt Lake for their patriarchal blessings, which they lost during the earthquake, and printed copies for them,which they let me read. It was touching to know that other people would be blessed to help them achieve their goals, which Elder K. and I feel a part of.</div>
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We were warned by several people, including my Chilean cousin Hno. Rojas, whom we met on the street, our concierge Galvarino, and Hna. Rosas, that we should stay home the whole day on Thursday. September 11th is the anniversary of the 1973 coup d'etat installing murderous dictator General Augusto Pinochet following the assassination of the Marxist president Salvador Allende. Many of our friends keep their children home from school. All LDS church employees were sent home at 2:00 p.m. There is a history of anarchists using the anniversary as an excuse for violence against foreigners, and Chileans. It was an otherwise beautiful day, so for exercise we walked up and down several flights of stairs. We watched remembrances of our own September 11th anniversary on the Internet, the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001.</div>
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On Friday we saw our friend the street attendant on Chacabuco, to whom Elder Kennington gave a copy of the Libro de Mormon. He told us students and anarchists had blocked the street and lit fires, and 70 people from around Concepcion ended up being jailed overnight. During the week there was a bombing in Santiago, the murder of a young American teacher in Temuco, several alcohol-related deaths of students in Concepcion, and other problems with violence. We were glad when the week was over.</div>
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Friday an enthusiastic group of elders and sister missionaries from the Concepcion South Mission came for a Self Reliance workshop .<span style="text-align: left;"> One of the elders asked about taking the OPIc English language test since he has been using the Companionship Language Study grammar books to prepare for it. Another thing I need to learn about: </span><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://learningenglish.mtc.byu.edu/">http://learningenglish.mtc.byu.edu/</a></span></div>
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I gave my green Mapuche-style wall hanging to Andrea for her September 11th birthday since she admired it so much. I made a new one, but I hung it on the wall in our apartment. Now everyone asks what happened to the one that was hanging in the office. Apparently once something appears on the wall, it needs to stay there.</div>
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A rug I crocheted on September 11th out of recycled yarn. I was going to give it away, but I may wait until the cold weather is over.</div>
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The last Saturday of August we drove out on Ruta 5 south for Los Angeles, a city of about 185,000 situated between the coast and the Cordillera. It is a farming region, so when Elder Kennington saw farm equipment dealers on either side of the highway, he started to feel at home.</div>
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It isn't ConAgra--it's Coagra, but Elder K. was impressed by the big tractors.</div>
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We even passed -- wait for it -- a silage pit covered with plastic sheeting and tires. Vanessa, Carrie, Conrad, Casey and Jeff will know all about this.</div>
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We stayed two nights at the Diego de Almagro, which needs to change the address on its website and on Google Maps. Fortunately someone told us where to find it.</div>
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We keep seeing silver crew cab Nissan pickups wherever we go in Chile, just like Wendy's Troca de Plata. Here it is again, parked next to our Outback in the hotel parking lot.</div>
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We ventured into Los Angeles, which we were told has spectacularly bad traffic, especially in the center of town, which is where we are, above, on Avenida Colon. Still, Los Angeles is more spread out and there aren't as many tall buildings as in Conce, for which we were grateful.</div>
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We located the Los Angeles North Stake Center so we could find later it among the winding one-way streets. We met with the stake president and the Self Reliance Committee for an informational presentation, which went very well. Sunday evening we met with another group of people interested in applying for Perpetual Education Fund loans.</div>
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Outside there were banks of blooming poinsettia shrubs losing their red bracts. The Chileans call poinsettias the Corona de Inca, Flor de Navidad, Flor de Pascua, or Nochebuena, their name for Christmas Eve.</div>
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Elder Kennington ordered a sliced beef sandwich with porotos verdes, green beans. My sandwich was the same except with paltas, avocado. It was delicious.</div>
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Sunday morning we got lost looking for the Barrio Galvarino chapel, which the stake president had asked us to visit. Fortunately we came upon these elders walking along the street, and they showed us where it was. This happens to us often. They were thankful for the ride.</div>
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The chapel where the Galvarino Ward meets, which it shares with another ward. Something more common outside of Concepcion.</div>
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Following the meetings, we were invited to lunch at the home of Stake President Pauvif, who happens to be the head of Promasa in Chile, a wood-products business owned by friends of ours at home in our Ontario 3rd Ward. Two hungry elders had also been invited. Fortunately, Hna. Pauvif is a terrific cook, and she cooked a LOT of food for us.</div>
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Following our dinner of vacuno, beef--a cut called choclillo, which Elder K. says is the best he's eaten so far--chicken, peas, choclo (sweet corn), salad, and "pie limon," which is a round vanilla cake topped with lemon-flavored meringue, all very delicious, the elders left us with a message from the Book of Mormon.</div>
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The handsome Pauvif family. Hna. Pauvif has a delightful laugh, and we had a very funny conversation. They have traveled widely, including to our very own Treasure Valley in eastern Oregon.</div>
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Monday morning we left Los Angeles reluctantly. We kept telling each other "I really like it here!" and how we wished we could stay. At the crest of the hill driving out of town is the famous Cross landmark. We never did locate the Promasa plant, which means it's very easy for anyone except gringos to find, or the El Rincon Bed and Breakfast which is supposed to be just off the highway. Some other time, I guess.</div>
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Another reminder of home. I do like the windbreak poplars, which mark the boundaries of fields. </div>
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Fortunately there were lots of signs for Salto del Laja, the Falls on the Rio Laja, so we were able to find it. Since it was quite cloudy and rainy, we had the place all to ourselves. We were early enough that the feria artesanal sellers had not yet set up their shops, which Elder K. was thankful for.</div>
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The Falls were big, loud and spectacular, with all the rain this winter.</div>
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Thursday afternoon we made a return trip to visit Hna. Truxell, who is doing much better. The cancer surgery was successful, and she and her husband will be leaving their Conce apartment for the U.S. next week. Above is a photo taken from their pleasant apartment balcony.</div>
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A photo of Elder K. visiting with the Truxells, if only to remind myself of how much nicer their apartment is than ours.</div>
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Friday Andrea did not make it into the Centro for her weaving class, since her mother in Coronel was very sick. Manuel's father was in the hospital in Los Angeles as well, so he didn't make it to the Planning for Success Workshop since he wants to sign up for a PEF loan. We were going to celebrate Andrea's birthday this week, but that will be on hold for now.</div>
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Above, one of the ladies shows a page from her weaver's notebook, very typical of Chile. She has a design for a poncho, the yarn she is using, and the tag from the yarn so she can find it again.</div>
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Our felting teacher has, naturally, turned out to be an outstanding weaver. Here she shows several dresses she has made, which she has joined and decorated with crochet.</div>
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A poncho she has decorated, naturally, with a very pretty white wool felt flower.</div>
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In the Corta y Confeccion class, Hna. Dagnig shows us a dress made for dancing the Cueca. Since the Chilean Day of Independence comes up on September 18th, all the stores are now stocking child-size cueca dresses and ponchos, and red-white-and-blue table decorations.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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Elder Kennington and I now have eighteen grandchildren! Nine girls and nine boys. Saturday morning, Jeff's Brielle gave her two little boys a sister, Junette Elizabeth. Since we have been on our mission two others have been born: Casey's Katie gave birth to the handsome and dimpled Isaac, and Jon and Carrie welcomed sweet-cheeked blonde Brynn Lee into the world on our May 10th anniversary. We feel very blessed.<br />
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A week ago Sunday was the Concepcion Stake Conference, which we attended so we could visit many of the people we have met over many months. We were glad to see several who had come to the Centro for help and were now, in fact, employed.<br />
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Following Stake Conference, we attended the baptism of Marcia's mother and grandmother, seated above with the father of the family, one of the sisters and a grandson. Often Chilenos will pose stoic and unsmiling for photographs, although Elder Streadbeck and Elder Encarnacion, seated next to him, weren't afraid to show how happy they were. The water in the font, unfortunately, was not heated, and it was an act of faith and courage for the bisabuela, who does not walk very well, to descend the steps into the cold water to be baptized.</div>
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During our weekly trip to the Unimarc on Chacabuco, we saw another of these carts of the very large stalks of an unknown plant. People buy these and chew on them like sugar cane, although we are told they don't have much flavor, even when you sprinkle salt on them. We asked the smiling vendor what it was and she said, "Nalca," a medicinal plant known as the Chilean rhubarb.</div>
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Above is a photo of the Gunnera Tinctoria plant, with its long stalks, called Nalca, and large leaves, called Pangue. The leaves are used in cooking the national dish Curanto in a hole in the ground with charcoal and lined with rocks. The leaves protect the cooking food and add moisture. Medicinal qualities include helping with problems of the liver, hemorrhaging, diarrhea, stomach, and fever.</div>
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This week a large group of mostly North American, mostly sister missionaries was going home just in time to attend Brigham Young University, after spending a day at the Centro for a Self-Reliance Workshop. The missionaries have named this workshop "Introduction to the Real World," following 1 1/2 to 2 years of living only to serve others. Here they are waiting for the mission vans to pick them up in the fresh and brilliant sunshine of late winter in Concepcion.</div>
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On Wednesday we had an official visit from Brian Gibson and Dane Nielsen from Salt Lake City, along with Alejandro Calquin, PEF operations manager in Santiago. Brian is the interim South America South manager for Self Reliance as he travels the area visiting Centros and interviewing candidates to replace the outgoing manager. We gave presentations on what we have been doing for the last several months. Elder K. and I were able to have a nice chat in English with Brian and Dane before they left. They were very complimentary, especially of the work I had been doing developing materials and building the blog for volunteers and specialists. It was a good day for me.</div>
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Romy made the executive decision on where to have lunch, and she chose well--the new Rosa Amelia restaurant down the street. The ambiance was elegant, the food was excellent, and prices were reasonable. We will be back.</div>
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A sister from Hualqui stopped by the Centro, showing the woven articles her husband had made. She and her husband had taken a weaving class, and while he does the actual weaving, she takes care of marketing by stopping at offices and ferias wherever she can and showing her wares. Above, Romy models a very soft and beautiful manta, a blanket-like cape made on a Telar Maria table-top loom.</div>
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Friday the Pendleys invited us to a restaurant they found not far from the mission office, Quinche y Sabor, on Calle Prieto between Lincoyan and Rengo. It was an unlikely location, but there was parking! Sabor means flavor and Quinche is a term used in the cone of South America, meaning "steak restaurant."</div>
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Friday night, Andrea showed us her latest creation for her son, a poncho woven and decorated in the Mapuche style. Behind her, a young married couple is on the computer as they make an online application for the Perpetual Education Fund, while Elder Kennington is in the classroom teaching the Planning for Success workshop.</div>
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I finally finished my Chile Telar of Chilco, the Chilean Fuchsia Magellanica. When I brought this to the Centro to show everyone, Hna. Rosa had to wipe away a tear. It affects her emotionally that I should spend so much time and energy making something beautiful, and so representative of Chile.</div>
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We have been asked by Salt Lake to develop short presentations on Best Practices for other missionary couples, including taking videos of learning local crafts, teaching how to crochet rag rugs, basic computer lessons, etc. I am beginning again with the famous Copihue wall hanging so I can record step by step instructions.</div>
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Here with the warp yarns in place, anchored to the frame in three places, and beginning the bordado, the embroidery-type stitch I am using to produce a raised color to highlight the flowers to come.</div>
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We came to the end of our first ten modules teaching "English for You Now." About a dozen students made it through to the end. The lessons are well-thought out, fun to do, and students learn without realizing it. They want to know the meanings of all the vocabulary words, and they are eager to share Spanish words with us. Most of them want to keep on with the next set of modules. We will be forming new beginning classes in the next few weeks.</div>
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Our most faithful pupil, Victor Sepulveda, single and in his sixties, gave us this Silabario, Spelling Book, as a gift as we gave him his English for You Now participation certificate. The Silabario has been around since 1948, used by 19 Latin American countries, and was adopted by Chile as their official spelling book in 1964. Only recently has it been replaced by newer books. All the adults who see me carrying it look at it with fondness and ask how my study of Castellano is going.</div>
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The third Sunday in August we made a return trip to the Penco Stake building overlooking Bahia Concepcion, the steeple of which is visible down the street to the right. Barrio Crav meets in this building. The sweet lady sitting in front of us showed us her hymnbook, which turned out to be a record of her entire church membership--full of pictures of missionaries, letters, and programs. It makes her happy to leaf through it.</div>
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Line of palmas, palm trees on Avenida Los Carrera.</div>
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Alcachofa, artichoke, from a vegetable stand. The artichokes are displayed like beautiful green roses. They are fresh and incredibly delicious.</div>
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We visited Marcia's family while she is on her mission in Peru. Her three sisters were baptized before she left. Here Elder K. is holding Victor, a week old, the third son of one of Marcia's older sisters.</div>
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Victor's bisabuela, great grandmother. She likes to sit next to the window and watch her great grandsons play outside. Marcia's mother and this abuelita are planning on being baptized this weekend.</div>
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Andrea has lately gone into production making woven articles for North American families of missionaries. Manolito drew the design for her trademark, the Ayun, which means Illuminated Heart in Mapundong.</div>
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Although we appreciate our high rise apartment, we still pass by our still-uninhabited dream home on Chacabuco and Colo Colo. It is for rent by another company, and they are not having any better luck. If only they had known we would have taken care of it all this time without asking for payment. Although the heating bill alone probably costs more than our apartment rent. It's a great location for a restaurant or boutique shops.</div>
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Hna. Kauer told us about the Truxells, who live in this high-rise on Lincoyan overlooking Parque Ecuador during the hot Las Vegas summers. They bought the apartment eight years ago after visiting Concepcion to pick up their son as his mission ended. The Truxells were packed to leave for the States when Hna. Truxell, a school teacher who speaks no Spanish, had emergency surgery for a cancerous mass. She is in good spirits waiting for chemotherapy and the strength to make the flight home. Hno. Truxell is a retired phone company lineman, and he appreciates seeing the interesting phone lines all over Chile. Telephone linemen here in Concepcion, it must be said, have been cleaning out some of the more egregious old tangles.</div>
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Friday morning we took the Outback to the Municipalidad de Hualpen to make the last payment of our Permiso de Circulacion, which allows us to actually drive the car in Chile. It cost about $60.00 each payment. They must not be charging as much as the Registro Civil, which has much nicer offices and furniture than the Municipalidad. You have to pay where the last payment was made, so we were glad the car hadn't come from Antofagasta or Puerto Montt. </div>
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On our weekly shopping trip we came home with this Confort brand toilet paper, which includes a rolled-up spare of portable t.p. down the empty middle of the roll. Several of them are now stashed in the Outback.</div>
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The days are getting longer, and with occasional breaks from the clouds and rain, there is enough sun to encourage my dependably blooming balcony garden of calendulas and geraniums, which I have moved to larger pots. The semillas de espinaca, spinach seeds have even sprouted.<br />
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Saturday evening we could feel our apartment building swaying long enough to give me a touch of motion sickness. It was a 6.4 earthquake originating in Valparaiso. We like to check on <a href="http://earthquaketrack.com/p/chile/recent">http://earthquaketrack.com/p/chile/recent</a> to see the most recent earthquakes up and down Chile.<br />
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