FERIE

Saturday morning Sister Snow and Dennis checking out the Ferie. This is an open air market, where the farmers brings their fruits and veggies to sell. It will be at a different place every day of the week. You never know what you will find besides the fruits, vegetables, fish, eggs, cheese, empanadas, used clothes and almost anything you want to buy. Ours is a small one only a block long on one side of the street. This is the closest one to us. It is open from9-3 every Saturday morning.
This is my ferie bag. You need to take your own bag to put all your purchases in. Aleca now I have a new one to take too. We had both bags with us. I can't buy too much because you have to carry it all home. No potatoes they are too heavy. We take the bus there and back. So one bag full is all I can buy. When it gets heavy I stop.
The best squash or pumpkin ever. It is cheap, too. There is a hack saw in the top of the whole squash that is used to saw squash up in small pieces. This is wonderful in soups. Or just cook it and put butter on top of it. We use it to make pumpkin pies, too. I love it. I buy it every week. You can buy it year around. I have some seeds to bring home and try to grow my own.
This is sea weed tied in bunches. I don't buy this. I tastes just like it looks. BAD
These are some on the veggies I bought on Saturday. Those short fat carrots are delicious and sweet and wonderful. I buy these all the time. The radish in the back are as big as the tomatoes I bought. I bought one basil plant. The corn looks good but it is what we call field corn. I bought it for soup and to make pastel de choclo ( a casserole with corn on top.) I like it and I want to learn how to make it.

More getaway pictures Mt Puntago

We need to go potty and didn't dare go on the edge of the road when there was a 2000 feet feet drop off one foot off the side of the road. So Dad bought us all Hot Chocolate so we could use their bathrooms. It was well worth it.
Can you see the glacier off the right.

Hikilng up the trail to get a better picture of the Mt Puntago and the Glaicer Paloma. The note I left Dennis telling him ( This little old lady was going back). Then he didn't even find it on his way back down the moutain. It a good thing I didn't wait for him to find me, he wouldn't have found me either.

Get Out of the City Day

We were invited to go up go with the doctors for a Saturday picnic. We went up to the Ski Resort just above Los Condes up into the Andes the head waters for the Maphocho River. This is the road there were 70 some curves and switch backes Look close and you can see several here. The road went straight up the mountain. Only a two land road too.
A little stream that we crossed while hiking to the Glacier. We didn't make it .
This is Dad standing in front of Mt Putago ( 22,000 ft pike)
The river Maphacho. The water looked white it is all runoff from the Glacier.
This mountain is above timber line and nothing was growing on it.

Employment Center (Elder Taylor)

We are area missionaries, in Santiago, Chile. Area missionaries do all kinds of different things. From office worker to the area doctor and every thing in between. Most of us work 5 day a week with Saturdays off and Sunday. We have been called to work in the Employment Office as office workers. We love it. The picture above is the Employment Office at Republica. It is set next to the Republica chapel.
Our day begins at 7 am. We walk10 blocks to the metro, ride the metro to Republica, then walk 8 more blocks to the office. We arrive at the office around 8 am. Here is Dennis openning the door and taking of the chain and padlock off. After we have opened. We scan all the computers. Cut the want adds out of the newpaper and get ready to open at 9am.
Elder Taylor helps conselor and advise people of what type of job they should look for. He also helps them know where they can look for a job. He give phone numbers to them for any of the jobs we have listed. He loves to talk and help them. He has met lots of interesting Chilean
He teaches the TAL worshop (career workshop) Tuesday through Thursday from 10 am to 4pm.. This is a workshop to teach every one how to interview, look, and put their best foot forward to get a job. Sometimes he teaches it on Saturday, too. We also have another class called TAE this teaches people how to open up and operate a small business.
When Sister Keen is eating or etc. He sits on the front desk. He he answers the phone, lets people in, greets them sweetly and gets their name address phone number and what stake they are from. Sister Keen goes home in one week so he will be on the front desk all the time.

Employement Center Republica (Hmna Taylor)

One of my jobs is to type in names to form a data base of all the members that we find jobs for each month. I also am charge of the cash box. All of the voluntaries get money for their bus or metro trip to and from the center and $1000 mil for lunch. They are willing to voluntary but can afford the bus ticket to and from the center. I give out this money. We have had some of the most wonderful people voluntary in our center. We have learned to love all Chileans.
Since I am the only one in the upstairs office. I decided that I could be my own boss.
Sister Keen and I fix lunch for all of us in the office daily (3 missionaries 2 voluntaries, and a boss). Do you see a stove, no, because there isn't one, but we do have a microwave oven. So we cook a lot of it at home, the night before and carry it to the office and warm it at lunch time. There is no hot water either. Chilean don't use hot water to wash dishes. Sister Keen and I heat water in the microwave, to at least rinse them in. I love my kitchen at home and miss it.
This is the computer lab that I run part of the time. Resume are written for me to print. Sometimes resume need to be emailed to companies and etc. I can do this, now. The computer is also used to look for jobs. We have a list of job web sites. There are two telephones to be used to call about jobs. Sometimes I will have as many 12-15 people in their at once.
Melissa and Dave don't laugh when I say I run the computer lab. I CAN with the Lord's help. Besides I can answer any question with , SI, NO SE, or Marcela. You would be real proud of me.
One of the main things I need to do is watch that our mouses, key boards, staplers, sissors and etc., don't walk off in someone bag. We keep nothing on the desk.

We have found lots of Water Falls

Bridal Veil Falls. No, it is not a spring.

Melissa is this where you baptized the Cattle Rustler. This whole river is filled with little pools and water falls. Each one was prettier than the last one.

Siete Tazas The Seven Cups water Fall

We took a little side trip on Saturday. We went to see the Siete Taza. You go to Molina and then up in the Andes toward Argentina for about 54 km. The road was dirt but good. It had rained on Friday so it was foggy. These are the seven cups you can only see 5 or six of them. Aren't these water falls unbelieveable.

Dad down next to the river and the bottom water fall.
Dad and Sister Keen climbing back up the steps we came down to get closer to the bottom fall (cup). The steps were funny some 2 feet high and the next one only a foot.
Notice the foggy.

This one is clearer. I didn't mean to get two of the same water fall. But it was so pretty .