September 18th - Chile's Independence Day

The Chileans really know how to celebrate and do so for many days. We even decorated our condominium a little bit to join in the festivities.

                         Costumes were the style during the celebrations - and for all ages.

                                We loved the pinwheels on this house!

See all the flags all the way down their street? We loved it!!

This roundabout is at the bottom of the hill we take to get down to Iquique. We loved see all their flags and figure they'll stay up until they start decorating for Christmas. 

A couple pictures of our zone in Alto Hospicio

Front row: Elders Solis/Chile, Palpa/Peru, Phillips/NV, the Lawsons, Beltran/ID, Jaramillo/Chile, and Barrington/UT
Back row: Elders Reyes/Nicaragua, Rodriguez/Mexico, Mazariegos/Guatemala, Reid/UT, Walker/UT, Camino/Argentina, Parpal/Argentina, Adams/UT, Prada/Columbia, Ercanbrack/UT, Court/UT, and Joos/UT

 Same group once again.  Transfers are next week and Elder Rodriguez returns home to Mexico.  We'll miss him! We hope the others can stay awhile longer. They're a great group.

Noah's Arc and the children in our district

Wow!  I can't believe it's been a month since I added any pictures here.  Time to repent!

Our district in Alto Hospicio had a district Primary activity last month celebrating Children's Day. They had a skit about Noah's Arc and all the children came dressed as an animal.  One of the sisters there made up their faces and they were all adorable!

Our cultural hall is very small in this building so the chapel is used for larger activities.

                                               Juan and Nidia Hipolito family.            

Noah's Arc and the children in our district

Wow!  I can't believe it's been a month since I added any pictures here.  Time to repent!

Our district in Alto Hospicio had a district Primary activity last month celebrating Children's Day. They had a skit about Noah's Arc and all the children came dressed as an animal.  One of the sisters there made up their faces and they were all adorable!

Our cultural hall is very small in this building so the chapel is used for larger activities.

                                               Juan and Nidia Hipolito family.            

We finally got a picture of our zone just before transfers.  We just love working with these missionaries and they've found that the work is very, very sweet!  They work hard and they're very happy. It's such a pleasure knowing them. Notice that the Latin elders are from 7 different countries and the Americans from 5 different states!

Back row: Elders Cable/CA, Parpal/Argentina, Solis/Chile, Mariscal/Bolivia, Los Lawson/CO, Joos/UT, Martins/Brazil, Oribe/Argentina, Prada/Columbia
Front row: Elders Medina/Paraguay, Jaramillo/Chile, Wanderley/Brazil, Silva/Argentina, Barrington/UT, Reid/UT, Rodriguez/Mexico, Walker/UT, Phillips/NV, Beltran/ID

On July 17th we had a zone conference with 5 zones from Arica, Iquique, and Alto Hospico with Elder Jorge Zeballos and his wife, Carman, along with our mission president, Craig Dalton, and his wife, Sandy. We thoroughly enjoyed the wonderful conference as well as our time with the elders and sisters.  Isn't this a wonderful group to be serving with?  We think so!!!