Home teaching in Buenos Aires

We have been assigned 5 families to home teach in the "Juncal" Ward here.  We have seen 4 this week already and got home from the last visit last night at 11:00 pm, after getting lost 3 times in parts of the city where the power was out!  We were invited to share some homemade salami pizza and it was the best we have had here!  All we ever find for pizza is ham or tomotos, etc.  A lot of the ward members are either from Bolivia or Peru and live in very small apartments.  When we got back to our 700 sq. ft. apartment last night, we thought we were in a palace!

On January 8, 2010, we are having a special night where recipients of the PEFund here is Buenos Aires will come and tell their success stories.  Our purpose here is to set up a system to track the returned missionaries as soon as they come home from their missions, help them make a plan for school and employment and become successful both spiritually and financially.  This will be a great benefit for their families as well as the church.

 One of the bronzes that cover the side of the statue to San Martin.  They tell the story of what happened at that time.

Famous Statue of "Jose San Martin" who liberated Agrentina, Chile & Peru from the Spaniards in the early 19th century.  This compilation of statues is in Mendoza.  Mark is standing with Bro. Oliverno  Pres. Lucas, Dec. 3, 2010.

 Fountain in a huge park next to the university in Mendoza.

 The mission home/mission office of the Cordoba mission.  We were driving a Toyota Corolla, which is one of the biggest cars here.

 Pres. Guido Lucas and his wife, Marcela in front of their chapel in Cordoba.  This chapel will be torn down when construction for the Cordoba temple begins because the land will be used for the temple.

Cordoba temple site with the chapel behind.  The Cordoba mission home is on the right but you can't see it.

400+ year old building which has been preserved.  It's next door to the institute and employment services in Cordoba.

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This is just one a many little altars on the side of the highway where truckers 

leave a full bottle of water.  The legend, "Defunta Correa", is that a woman gave birth on the side of the 

road and died, but her baby lived by nursing from his dead mother. Inside the altar are small 

replicas of the woman with her baby lying on top of her chest.          

We bought a sheepskin from a man named "Osmar" who lives in the hills west of Cordoba.  Behind us

is a bedspread that he made of sheepskin and goatskin.

Training meeting with a ward council in the new church web page in Spanish in Cordoba.

Pres. and Sister Spitale, who was the mission president in the Bhia Blanca mission.

Self-Reliance Workshop at the Employment Center in Cordoba

          

 Mark and Linda;  Zilla and Kelly Grieves, teaching piano;  John and Charlene Hollingsworth, area doctor for all the missions; Pat and Ron Cundick, auditing.  We were on an outing in the city.