I have not been able to be online in the last few days because of the craziness of wrapping up our time in Chile. As I write this we are at the mission headquarters in Santiago, Chile. We are going to spend most of the early part of the day repacking, washing our clothes as well as the linens that we used here last night, weighing our suitcases, and preparing for the long night ahead by taking naps=) Later today we will take part in the missionary prayer meeting that takes place here each Monday afternoon, just like when I was a kid! We are looking forward to the fellowship with the missionaries on our final day here as well as the Domino´s pizza to follow!

Backing up a bit...we really enjoyed our Thanksgiving! I´ll post more pictures and details when we get back but it was a very enjoyable evening and very yummy turkey! Friday it poured all day so we didn´t get a whole lot done. Teresa Thompson, an MK I knew from growing up, had her wedding planned to take place there at camp and there was a lot of preparation we took part in. I did a bit of packing and preparing our things for the trip but not much else got done with all the rain. We went out to supper so the camp was free for the rehearsal dinner and all the wedding guests. It was another great meal of empanadas, sandwich barros luco, cazuela de vacuno y ave, ensalada de palta, and on and on.

Saturday the wedding was the focus of the whole day. Our work as far as NTI was concerned had come to a halt as of Thursday due to clean up and all the prep work that had to be done for the wedding. This did serve a dual purpose though, as the camps are soon to begin and the grounds were in need of a good cleaning! Because of some communication mixups there was no photographer there and that brought on a rather interesting event....Diana Kunnari and I were asked to be the wedding photographers!!!!!!!!!! It was overwhelming to say the very least, but I will write a bit more about that later as well. As soon we finished with pictures I went to start packing. It was 4 o´clock and we had to leave before 9 so I was feeling a little rushed. Right after I started Matthew came in and said that the missionary who had agreed to take our luggage back up to Santiago for us was leaving in an hour!!!!!!!!!! PANIC! So, with the help of Matthew, Monica, and Zach (who had an even more eventful day but I´ll save that for later also) we got everything packed. Thanks a million to Diana Kunnari who watched the 3 little kids that whole time so we could get it done much faster!

We arrived here yesterday morning, after a miserable bus ride, had a little over 2 hours to get 7 people through the shower and get to the church for the Sunday morning service. It was great to reconnect with people in the church I grew up in!

But, this is getting lengthy enough and I have load #4 of laundry just about ready to hang up so the rest will wait for another time. We fly out of here at 11pm tonight, arriving in Denver at 8:30 tomorrow morning (after a short layover in Dallas) with a 6 hour drive to Buffalo Gap. Please don´t stop praying yet!