We were able to attend this sweet wedding for this refugee couple from Haiti. Her family is still in Haiti, his family went to Brazil first and now he and two of his brothers with their families are living here in Chile. They have known each other for 7 years, but 3 months ago he was able to pay for her passage to get to Chile. They are preparing for a temple marriage. I hope to see it before I leave Chile.
This is the Golden Circus which we have seen set up at several SODIMAC store parking lots around the metropolitan area. We frequent SODIMAC regularly; it is our Home Depot of Chile and being in charge of missionary apartments we just possibly may be one of their most frequent customers including the other 3 missions in Santiago.
Elder Grange has been in charge of bikes, but recently missionaries have been taken off of bikes in South America due to injuries and some deaths. These are some of the bikes that have been collected and will be reassembled to donate to a local college who will give them to stidents who could benefit from this transportation.
I am not sure what this is. It could be many of Elder granges projects, lets see....the inside of a cell phone plug in that has been damaged...no....a drawer slide on the pressed wood cabinets here that continually fall apart...no...oh perhaps the underside of a gas oven that he is adjusting the fittings or the valves where the gas comes out to be larger holes so that the natural gas in some of the apartments will actually work with the stove. (most of the apartments where missionaries live do not have piped in gas but rather a propane tank of liquid gas that sits beside the stove). It only took us 5 months living here to discover why our oven and cook top did not have big enough flames to cook effeciently. Elder Grange has now changed valves on several stoves that are in the high rise building with piped in gas.
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