Last February the businesses, apartments and 3 homes were all vacated.
This last week they came in and started tearing them all down. We were told that a 5 star hotel would be built on the sight.
The track come off of the tractor on the right.
We will keep you updated as the construction progresses. I was afraid that they were going to tear everything down one brick at a time but alass they brought in 3 tractors and 8 big dump trucks.
Today was a Satellite broadcast from Salt Lake City to all the stakes in Peru. Pres Uchtdorf , elder Jeffery Holland, sister Allred, 1st counselor in General RS presidency and elder Grow of the 70 spoke to us. We went to the MTC to watch and listen as it was in English in one of the rooms. The American missionaries watched it with us.
While at the MTC we had our pictures taken with Elder Smith from Monrovia, Ca and Elder Welch from Farmington, Ut that will be entering our mission on next change.
Pres. and sister Tyler with elder Smith and Welch. Elder Welch is grandson of Wanee and Tom Welch from the Bountiful 36th ward and son of Terry Welch that I know.
Something that I didn't know, behind the MTC is this full soccer field with artifical turf that the MTC missionaries have full access to. The church owns all this property. Next to the MTC and the soccer field and on the other side of the wall is the La Molina ward.
An interesting part of the conference was both Elder Holland and Pres. Uchtdorf said that in the future there will be several temples in Peru. The conference was broadcast to the 90 stakes and 15 branches in Peru. Elder Grow and sister Allred spoke in Spanish and it was translated into English for our meeting and Holland spoke half in Spanish and then switched to English and Pres. Uchtdorf spoke in English but German would have been easier.
We were priveledged to be invited to go with the mission presidents on a tour of Lima. We were with Pres. and Sister Leyva - East mission, Pres. and Sister Manning - South mission and Pres. and Sister Tyler and daughters - Central mission.
We rode on the upper deck of this bus. It was a very beautiful day with lots of sunshine. In fact I didn't have a hat and got sunburned on my head.
Melissa and Rebekah Tyler just before we got on the bus.
The park where we left from. We went from Miraflores to downtown Lima and back to Miraflores by way of the ocean.
Some ruins in Miraflores.
I had to take a picture of this hotel.
Some of the streets and Art Museums of Lima. 
Catacombs are located under the Santo Domingo church and Monestary. This old hurst was inside. The bones are piled on top of each other.
Elder Hidalgo from Iquitos went home this change. We came to love him very much and we will miss him.
