ALEJANDRO FIGUEROA AND RETURNING TO SANTIAGO

View of the temple at night from our apartment

The back of the Santiago Temple and view from our 4th floor apartment.

We drove into South Santiago around 1:30 pm  (13:30 here)  !  We had arranged to have lunch with our assistant from that area , Alejandro Figueroa ,and his wonderful family in their home.  They cooked meat outside, which was delicious and Pauletta prepared an old family recipe of gnocchi in tomatoe sauce, and served everything with a yummy tomatoe and white onion salad.  We had home canned peaches for dessert.  The Figeroa family is adorable.  Their two teenage daughters were delightful as was their 3 year old Paulette!  We spent a lovely evening of piano playing, by their daughter, Nicole (17) ,  and great conversation and sharing of ideas about the audit program.  They very much wanted us to spend the night in their home so we accepted their gracious invitation and enjoyed being with their family.  Paulette and Alejandro gave up their bedroom for us and we were very grateful for their generosity and kindness.

After spending much of the morning the next day, visiting further with Alejandro the three of us drove into Santiago where he would meet his wife.  After arriving at the church office , we checked into the missionary/temple housing where we have a lovely apartment for four days.  This complex houses the (CCM) Missionary Training Center for Chile, the church office building, the Santiago Temple,, and the housing for missionaries and couple missionaries and temple patrons.  It is a beautiful but simple complex and we are enjoying our stay here very much.  We have been working with Dale Perry, our missionary assistant here in Chile.  Sunday evening we will drive north to Vina del Mar to attend another training with Hermano Omar Aranda.  Vina del Mar is just north of Santiago  about an hour and we are looking forward to driving there.

Here are a few pictures of Wednesday!

Alejandro and Paulette!

Alejandro and Michael in front of the church office builiding in Santiago

We will do some sight seeing tomorrow with the Dale and Jeanne Perry who are serving here in Santiago.  They know of several interesting places for us to easily see in one day!