Margot and 7 girls

Once again we had a very busy week. The highlight was going to celebration of the 7 girls attaining their 15th birthday that were in this Catholic school. It's almost as if the girls were in a orphanage. None of them are living with their families. Our ward helped to sponsor each of the girls. We purchased their wardrobe. Karen and I sponsored a girl by the name of Margot. A very pretty girl when she smiled. Because of being one of the sponsors I spoke to the girls using a microphone as did the other sponsors. One of the sponsors was a councelor in our Stake Presidency. It was a very fun and uplifting evening.

Today at church we met Elder Nunez of the Area 70. He visited our ward and bore his testimony. He actually served a mission here in Peru about 1979.

Today we had two convert confirmations. It is so interesting from the time we have been here to see the people grow after the church comes into their lives. Even their dress. The first week or two they may show up in levi's or pants, but over a period of time they have dresses and nice slacks. It is nice to see all the Aaronic Priesthood wearing white shirts as they officiate in the Sacrament. Also today, every person that bore their testimony really bore their testimony and no one gave a travel log.

When they say Peruvian time. The Bishop started the meeting right at 9:00 am and I turned around and the chapel was not even half full. Fifteen minutes later the chapel was packed. We do not have daylight saving time here in Peru. So now we are two hours ahead of Mountain Standard time.

In another 2-3 weeks it should start to get warmer than it is and we will see the sun all day long instead of just a couple of hours each day if we are lucky. Karen will really appreciate that, though she rarely goes out during the day to see the sun anyway.