The Lima Peru LDS Temple Mission: Our Apartment...

Favorite recent and insightful quote I have read recently:

Favorite quote I have recently read: "The word temple comes from the Latin templum, which signifies an extended open space that has been marked out for the observation of the sky. In what manner is such a space marked out? According to Dr. Hugh Nibley, the word templum, "designates a building specifically designed for interpreting signs in the heavens--a sort of observatory where one gets one's bearings on the universe." The root "tem-" in Greek and Latin denotes a "cutting" or intersection of two lines at right angles, the point where the "cardo" and "decumanus" cross, hence where the four regions come together." Matthew Brown - "The Gate of Heaven"

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Our Apartment...

The apartment is very nice. I have not been in anything nicer or newer in Lima on previous trips and compares with the Marriott I stayed at earlier in Miraflores. We have a new stainless steel gas Bosch stove and oven, a new fridge in the kitchen of good size, as well as our own washer and dryer. We have an office with a desk and 2-1/2 baths. Every night we can put out the trash and it is gone before morning. The boys at the market two blocks away will carry your groceries home for a few Soles, (the Peruvian currency), though they are told not to take tips from any customers. We live in a very secure area in La Molina. We have a security guard on our street all of time time and there are several heavy doors and a metal fence between us and the street.

Tomorrow we have our preparation day and shopping to do including activating our cell phone and order cable and internet for the apartment. We are very comfortable here in Lima. The senior missionaries, especially the temple missionaries, are looked after very well. We are most appreciative of the care we have received and kindness of the our temple presidency and other missionary couples here.