In the Peruvian rainforest (Wikimedia CC public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
This morning, we attended sacrament meeting at a small barrio<\/em> or ward located just a few blocks from our hotel in Iquitos.\u00a0 (Our non-LDS local guide says that there are 23 LDS meetinghouses in the Iquitos area, but I don\u2019t know whether he has the entire \u201cconurbation\u201d in mind or merely the city of Iquitos proper.\u00a0 Anyway, I\u2019ve now seen two of them.)\u00a0 Our non-LDS tour manager, a young single woman accompanying us from Lima, also attended with us.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
The chapel was smallish, very simple but neat and clean.\u00a0 The floor was tile, with portable plastic chairs.\u00a0 There were no hymnals, but that was fine:\u00a0 Somewhat to my surprise, everybody around us seemed to be using cell phones to access the Church\u2019s hymnal.<\/p>\n
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The ward members were very friendly, coming up to welcome us, hug us, and so forth.\u00a0 I was pleased to see that they weren\u2019t Americanized.\u00a0 Most plainly spoke no English; some knew a few words.<\/p>\n
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There was some ward business.\u00a0 And a young high councilman conducted a bit of stake business.<\/p>\n
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The first speaker was a missionary, Sister Pe\u00f1a.\u00a0 I found out afterwards that she is from Peru.\u00a0 The second speaker looked American, but her Spanish was so good that I began to have doubts.\u00a0 Afterwards, though, I found out that she is from Idaho.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I didn\u2019t get her name.\u00a0 (I discovered that the area has its own mission.\u00a0 The two sister missionaries are assigned to the Peru Iquitos Mission.)<\/p>\n
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The final speaker was the bishop, a young man.<\/p>\n
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Afterwards, almost all of the ward members who hadn\u2019t already greeted us came up to do so, including a young woman who is studying in the BYU Pathway Worldwide program and who was interested to know whether we would be willing to speak with her a bit in English online so that she can improve her language.\u00a0 Of course we said Yes.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s good to meet with the local members here.\u00a0 In many ways, Peru has been a very fruitful field of labor for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a>.\u00a0 It seems to me, in Latin American terms, to rank with Mexico and with Brazil.\u00a0 For example, the Lima Peru Temple was dedicated in 1986, the Trujillo Peru Temple was dedicated in 2015, and two additional temples are in the process of construction, in Arequipa and, once again, in Lima.\u00a0 The latter will make for two temples within a single city \u2013 which is still something of a rarity, anywhere.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Posted from Ceiba Tops Lodge, on the Amazon River, Peru<\/p>\n
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