Another "ordinary" week with nothing "extraordinary" happening, but here are a few pictures to repay you for taking the time to check our blog . . .

On Monday, March 31st, Brother and Sister Gironda left for their home in Tarija.  It's about a 14-hour bus ride, but in recognition of their year's service, the temple budget paid for them to fly home - about 45 minutes.  Can you imagine how delighted and excited they were?

That same day, all of us gringos planned to meet at a restaurant called La Cantonata for dinner.  

The Chalmers were walking from their PEF (Perpetual Education Fund) office.

The Westovers had gone shopping downtown and walked to the restaurant,

and we (the Jensens and us) came from the hospedaje in the President's car.

Well, the restaurant didn't open at 6:00 as its website said, and we didn't want to wait,

so we all piled into President's car to go someplace else.  

Pretty tight quarters, which is why Sister Jensen took this photograph.

I'm in the back between Farron and Elder Chalmers (both men's knees almost to their chins.)

The middle seat had Elder and Sister Westover and Sister Chalmers (on the right).

And of course President and Sister Jensen were in front.

Before we went to the restaurant, we stopped by a supermarket (I use the term loosely) called Super Haas.

It was founded by a German immigrant to Bolivia and the good thing about it is that it does carry some American goods from time to time.  Jensens had never been there, so we volunteered to show them where it was.  It's always a treasure hunt, because you never know what will be there.  Sister Jensen found a big bag of Craisins, for example.  We probably won't see one again for months.  The market itself is tiny (belying its name) - maybe 700 or 800 square feet.  However, what I really wanted you to see in this picture was the entrance (these steps). Imagine a market in the U.S. that made you climb steps like this to go in! 

This weekend (April 5 and 6) we had a potluck luncheon at the hospedaje between the two sessions of General Conference each day.  I thought our ladies in charge of set-up did a wonderful job; don't you agree?

Sister Monroy (from Colorado) and Sister Lara (from Argentina) were in charge of the paper goods and set-up.

Here's part of our yummy Saturday lunch.  We also had a big pot of Chinese fried rice but it arrived too late for the picture.

Our table, enjoying lunch . . .

 . . . and the other table, doing likewise.

The way Conference works is that all the English-speakers watch the Conference at the President's house and the Spanish-speakers watch it in the hospedaje assembly room.  Then we meet at the hospedaje dining room for our lunch.  Here are two pictures of us North Americans on Sunday afternoon.

Farron was on my left, out of sight of the camera.

I saved this picture for last because it's the prettiest.

Usually we don't get to see any sunsets because of the trees around the hospedaje,

but the night we all went to dinner, we saw this sunset as we parked at the restaurant.

I'm afraid it doesn't compare to our Ecuador sunsets, but it's still worth saving.

Okay, that's all for today.  Have a happy, healthy, safe and satisfying week . . . y vayan con Dios!