On Tuesday
morning we went to the temple in Asunción.
It is not one of the larger temples but just as beautiful and
peaceful. It is always so amazing to
drive though the hustle and bustle of city traffic and then enter the doors of
a temple and feel the peace and spirit there.
What a blessing that temple is for the people of Paraguay.
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| Asunción, Paraguay Temple |
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Dave wasn't sure why I was taking this picture considering
we had been to Iguazú Falls. |
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| Flowers on temple grounds |
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| The flag of Paraguay flying on the temple grounds. |
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| Happy to be at the temple in Asunción! |
We ate lunch
across the street from the temple and we all had a lomito Árabe. A lomito Árabe is a burrito that is filled with
beef and chicken that has been cooked on a rotisserie, cabbage, tomatoes, and a
garlic sauce, and then warmed on a grill press.
Very delicious!
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| Elder Snow enjoying his lomito Árabe. |
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| Rotisserie where beef and chicken is cooked for the lomito Árabe. |
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| Press where the lomito Árabe is warmed and browned on grill. |
After lunch
we had several unsuccessful attempts to sightsee in Asunción: some botanical
gardens and natural history museum (power was out in museum), the Museo de Barro,
or as Zach called it the mud museum (closed for the day) and a church there
called La Iglesia Santísima Trinidad (also closed).
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| La Iglesia Santísima Trinidad |
We finally had success at the Panteón de los
Héroes, a memorial to some of the heroes of Paraguay.
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| Panteón de los Héroes |
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| Inside of Panteón de los Héroes |
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| Inside of the Panteón de los Héroes |
Nearby was an
open market, so we did a little more souvenir
shopping. I had hoped to find a nativity
set for my souvenir and I was very excited to find one carved out of wood which
is native to the Chaco region in the north part of Paraguay.
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| My nativity carved from wood that comes from the Chaco region. |
Zach wanted
to get a soccer jersey from the Paraguay team and a Paraguayan flag that were a
little more official than what the street vendors were selling, so we went to a
mall. The mall was perhaps not as big as
a mall in the states but very similar with many of the same stores.
That evening
we visited with Eduardo, a young man who was baptized in the first area Zach
served in called Ybaté. Eduardo has a
very cheerful personality and has learned to speak English. He is strong in the church and he baptized
his sister. He will be a great
missionary. Eduardo has been following
The Elder Zach Files blog for a long time and it was so great to meet him and
his mother!
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| Snows with Eduardo |
Before we
returned to the hotel we stopped at the home of Betty and Luis. Betty is another of the faithful and sweet
sisters in Paraguay who regularly feeds the missionaries.
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| Visiting with Betty and Luis |
What a good day we had!
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