The BIG Fútbol Game
On Saturday, November 23rd, Peru hosted the Copa Libertadores final soccer game. It was between Flamengo from Brazil and River from Argentina. The game was moved from Chile because of security reasons. It ended up at the Estadio Monumental in our neighborhood (only about a mile away). The stadium holds 80,000 people and is the biggest in South America. Our neighborhood was all locked up for the event. They shut the gates on the roads into our neighborhood at 9 am for the 3 pm game.
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| The shut gates to our neighborhood |
There was a big police presence and we had lots of helicopters overhead. The missionaries that live near the stadium were asked to stay in for the entire day. We ventured out for a little while to see the mass of humanity moving towards the stadium. It was unreal. They shut down the major roads for car traffic. They were letting buses through. The people just walked down the roads toward the stadium.
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| People walking down the major road, Javier Pardo, to the stadium |
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| So many people! |
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| We even had police on horses! |
Argentina led for most of the game! But Brazil won the game in the last 5 minutes.
Multizone Meetings
It was multizone meetings on Wednesday and Thursday. The office elders and I were really busy. Everyone had to bring their emergency backpacks and also the medical kits for each apartment. For the emergency backpack we traded out water and stale crackers. Plus they got tuna if their sardines were outdated. (I would much rather eat tuna.) The medical kits were all depleted. We counted out different numbers of pills to put in each one. We put in bandaids, thermometers, and cotton swabs.
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| Filling the emergency backpacks with fresh supplies. |
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| Elder Armstrong with the medical kits. |
The best part of the multizone meetings were the special musical numbers that we had each day. The first day, Elder Salway did a composition with the songs "Come Unto Christ" and "Peace in Christ". Elder Horton and Elder McClellan sang and did a wonderful job. We listened to the Vitarte Zone sing "Abide with Me" in Spanish and English on the second day. The word for abide in Spanish is permanecer. Doesn't that remind you of permanently. We want Christ to stay with us always.
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| Elder Horton and McClellan singing, Elder Salway on the piano. |
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| Vitarte Zone singing "Abide with Me." |
Primary Program in the Cieneguilla Barrio
The best Sacrament meeting of the year is the Primary program. We had a wonderful program on Sunday, November 24th. There were only cute little dark haired people in our program.
How different from the ones at home where the hair color is mixed. They had matching blue bow ties for the boys and blue hair bows for the girls. The teachers wore blue scarves around their necks. Everyone had a part and two girls that will be in Young Womens next year, conducted the program. The children and teachers sang without a piano and there were some pretty awesome solos. There is only one piano in the building and it is in the chapel, so they do not practice with a piano in sharing time. The parents smile the same at their children. The children sing their hearts out. The spirit is present and is the same.
Plants of Peru
Random Picture of the Week
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| They do birthdays every cambio (transfer). |
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| They sang to me twice! Because I was there both days. |
How different from the ones at home where the hair color is mixed. They had matching blue bow ties for the boys and blue hair bows for the girls. The teachers wore blue scarves around their necks. Everyone had a part and two girls that will be in Young Womens next year, conducted the program. The children and teachers sang without a piano and there were some pretty awesome solos. There is only one piano in the building and it is in the chapel, so they do not practice with a piano in sharing time. The parents smile the same at their children. The children sing their hearts out. The spirit is present and is the same.
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