August - Part 1

 Going to lunch with our good friends, the Pendley's. This little cafe is only a few blocks away from the office.

 The restaurant was decorated with antique sewing machines and horse stirrups. It was really cold inside and outside. Luckily we were able to sit close to the wood stove.

 This hombre was entertaining people downtown by the plaza with his little dancing skeleton.

You can see our apartment building in the background. This is a large vacant lot by our building.

                                       
A man set up a temporary shelter to keep him warm in the winter.

 This is our building. It is modern and nice.

 We like it here except when the young 'uns  have loud noisy parties on Friday nights.

 Our home away from home.

In August we went to Chillan to haul furniture around and make repairs on some of the apartments.

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 This is where some of the sister missionaries live.

 It is a very nice home.

 This is their kitchen.

 We also visited some of the elders. They also have a nice home.

 Elder Barnes, in the middle, is from our neck of the woods.

 Elder L. looking at what needs to be done in the kitchen.

We also visited another elder's home. This is elder Hartvigsen, Morgan, Watts and Gillespie. Great elders except for the backward baseball cap.

 Their home was nice and clean.

A visit to Liter, the Chile form of Walmart. Look Ma, they play Bingo in Chile. Elder L thought of you when he saw it.

August - part 2

 August was still a wet month, but on the dry days we were on the go. This is one of the many toll booths that we drive thru in Chile.

 On the 7th we drove to Chillan for a conference. The volcanoes were looking beautiful that day.

On the right side of this picture you can see an outdoor oven.

 Nice little farm home with the volcanoes in the background.

 The cattle are on pasture all year round.

 The next day on the 8th, we went to Coelemu to bring items to the sisters at their new home.

 Elder Kauer and the office elders put together some shelves for the new house.

 Sorry, the next few pictures are out of order. These are two ox teams plowing outside of Santa Juana.

 The Bio Bio river on the way to Santa Juana.

 A bridge outside of Santa Juana with flowering trees.

 Up close the flowers or pollen balls on the trees.

 The remnant of the old fort at Santa Juana.

 Working the ground outside of Santa Juana.  They say it takes about 5 years to train a new ox to work.  They work till they are about 10 years, or so.

 The two teams of oxen working the fields plowing.

 Coming into Santa Juana, the campesino, dog and ox cart.

 The campesino and his woman.

 The ox cart and oxen.

 Early flowering trees at the fort site.

 The old fort at Santa Juana.

 What is left of the bell tower.

 Flowering trees in the countryside.

 Typical side road  in the countryside.

 The oxen plowing.

 Country scene outside of Santa Juana.

 The bay at Coliumo.

 Coliumo across the bay from Dichato.

 Coliumo

 Storks at Coliumo.

 Old house outside of Santa Juana.

 In the hills outside of Santa Juana.

 Nice house above Santa Juana.

 Coliumo

 Coming into Coliumo.

 Flowers at Coliumo.    

 Coliumo.

 Coliumo

 Stairway down to the water Coliumo.

 Boats at Coliumo.

 Coliumo

 Storks at Coliumo.

 Chillan

 Close to the missionaries house in Chillan.   Spring flowering tree.

 John Deere dealership  Chillan

 Outside of Quillon

 Sisters of Bulnes:  Sisters Antillon, Howe, and Fisher.

 Sisters Howe and Fisher.

Grain elevators and flour mill at Bulnes