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June 2019

June 21, 2019
    We spent almost all of today in the so-called Valle Sagrado de los Incas,...
June 21, 2019
    It simply demands saying:  We're in hot water now.   But we began...
June 20, 2019
    The relevant Wikipedia article says that the indigenous name of Cusco is Qusqu and says...
June 20, 2019
    Today -- 20 June 2019 -- is the Catholic feast day of Corpus...
June 20, 2019
    We headed out this morning to look at several very important Inca archaeological...
June 19, 2019
    I don’t know whether I’ll ever be back to the Peruvian Amazon.  Perhaps...
June 19, 2019
    I thoroughly enjoyed our visit to the Peruvian Amazon.  It’s a beautiful place,...
June 19, 2019
    We were up really early this morning for a 5 AM boat trip...
June 19, 2019
    On Tuesday morning, we were up very early and out on the River...
June 19, 2019
    Our Monday morning expedition concluded with a bit of fishing.  For pirañas (or...
June 19, 2019
    I mentioned freshwater pink dolphins in my previous post.  I should say something...
June 19, 2019
    On Monday morning, we spent about three hours out on the Amazon and...
June 19, 2019
    Much as certain of my critics might desire it, I have not been...
June 16, 2019
    After church services, we boarded a medium-sized motorboat and headed out onto the...
June 16, 2019
    This morning, we attended sacrament meeting at a small barrio or ward located...
June 16, 2019
    I maintain a blog for many reasons.   One of them is purely...
June 15, 2019
    One of the places pointed out to us here in the city of...
June 15, 2019
    We were up fairly early this morning to fly from Lima to what...
June 15, 2019
    As we went through the "Control de Aduanas" just now, I couldn't help...
June 14, 2019
    It being Friday, a new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of...
June 14, 2019
    I now want to say something briefly about the approach to the scriptures...
June 13, 2019
    In June 1863, the passenger ship Amazon set sail from London for America with nearly...
June 13, 2019
    I was elected student body president at my high school.  Here's a note...
June 13, 2019
    Continued from "On Gospel Doctrine Teaching (2)":   The dynamic (or, perhaps even...
June 13, 2019
    The most recent column in my Deseret News series "Defending the Faith" has...
June 12, 2019
    Five years ago today, on 13 June 2014, our first grandchild was born...
June 12, 2019
    Jonathan Neville, a prominent and extremely vocal advocate of the "Heartland model" of...
June 12, 2019
    One day, when I was teaching the Gospel Doctrine (adult Sunday School) class...
June 12, 2019
    For reasons that will shortly be obvious, I'm amassing a few notes for...
June 12, 2019
    Just this morning, I received the latest quarterly AmazonSmile donation notification for the...
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