Sharpening our skills.

Every zone conference has all our missionaries practicing what they have been taught. Everything is in Spanish except the prayers that are in English from the Latin missionaries that are learning English.

After every conference.

The missionaries love to take photos, and this was just another Kodak moment.

Our new Argenine missionary.

Elder Farias is our newest missionary in our mission, he comes from Argentina. What a fine young man.

A dirty job.

This man was cleaning our dirty windows one day when I went into our dining room. We are on the eighth floor, and I did not want to change places with him.

New MTC president and his wife.

We took a morning off to go with our MTC president and his wife to visit a huge market with MANY beautiful flowers the Saturday before Mother's Day. It was a colorful day.

All the way from Brigham City, Utah.

Elder and Sister Peterson stopped by one day for a short visit. They are missionaries working with the institue here in Bogota. They have been great examples to all of us here in the mission.

A typical breakfast while on the road.

President Hacking likes to eat strange food, and this is a typical breakfast for him while staying in a hotel. At the bottom is a tomal, and to the left are two blood sausages, some chicken with spices and a type of corn bread wrapped in a banana leaf on the right. Of course, a cup of hot chocolate is always a must in Colombia. We have wonderful chocolate here.

Learning English and Spanish together.

Elder Llanos from Puno, Peru, is improving very well with his learning of English, and his companion, Elder Carling, from Rexburg, Idaho, is speaking Spanish extremely well. Way to go Elders'

From Vina de Mar, en Chile.

We met this young lady while attending church in Tocancipa last month. After talking to her, we found she is the sister to Elder Urriola that is serving as one of our secretaries in the mission office. She just recently married a member in this little branch. She and her husband met while serving missions in the same mission. She looks a lot like her brother below.

La fara or whatever you call it.

The last time we were in Cucuta, we saw the animal that is by the white door (click to make bigger) running along the wall. We first thought it was a huge rat, but with longer legs. We asked the hotel employees what it was, and they said it was a fara, or foro or more names. We tried all kinds of ways to spell it to find it in the internet, but with no success. We were told some people eat these animals, and that they taste like chicken. What doesn't taste like chicken?

Trying to hide.

This animal, whatever you call it, climbed the tree and was up in the branch in the middle of all the leaves. CLICK TO MAKE BIGGER. When we got closer to it, we thought it resembled a possum, but not exactly.

Full of enthusiasm.

We welcomed two new missionaries to our mission. Elder Chamberland from Utah, and Elder Holmes from California. It was a day of energy and enthusiasm from these two missionaries.

Ending on a note.

Elder Saurey was one of our musical missionaries. He sang us some hymns on his last day in our home, and we enjoyed the evening.

Saying good-bye.

Once again we had to say good-bye to three very good missionaries. Sister Robles-via returned to Chile, and Elder Gardiner returned to California, and Elder Saurey returned to Nebraska.