There's truly no more important event and therefore no more important holiday than Easter don't you think? What a terrible plight we would all be in without the Savior and His atoning sacrifice.
See Prince of Peace and enjoy celebrating this one single event that has changed destiny for all of us.
No School
Easter in Argentina is almost nonexistent, but Good Friday is a two day celebration. With rain all weekend last week, and no school on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday waiting for the roads to dry, we didn't teach at all last week since Thursday and Friday were national holidays. The whole ranch seemed to shut down except for a skeleton crew, and some of Yuca's extended family visited. However, today, Easter Sunday, is a ghost town once again.
However, we made up for the lack of family and friends by inviting the Young Elders to our home for dinner. (Can't believe we forgot to take a picture.) We were too busy enjoying spaghetti, french bread, and cinnamon rolls together as well as each sharing our testimony of the restored gospel. What a great way to celebrate this wonderful day.
When we said, "rain", we really meant "flood". We had water dripping from the ceiling as you see below. Some of the containers were half full before the storm stopped.
Water backed all the way up to the house even though there is a 15 foot covered porch.
However, our sand bags kept the water away from the back door.
Don't have a lawn service?
Below is our new lawn service at work. When the yard men couldn't get to the ranch to mow the grass, the cows were let out to graze around our house. This is the first time we've seen them eating around our home. Originally, we thought it would be the norm, but apparently, the hombres do a more thorough trim job than the vacas.
Card game anyone?
Victoria brought her cousin, Sophia, over to borrow something from us and we kept the girls for several hours playing Uno. (We wondered why Spanish speakers don't call the game "One".) We taught the girls the Johnson family rules of Uno where players can match out of turn if they have an exact match, or pass along negative cards if they have their own draw, skip, or reverse card. The girls caught on quickly and liked the fast moving game. Perhaps, the parents didn't like the girls kidnapped for so long since the players didn't return with the borrowed item without their grandmother at their side.
Rain, Rain, Rain?...then READ, READ, READ
So, our latest project is reading good books. Our daughter-in-law gave us a tip for signing up for digital books at Deseret Book Store. For a hundred dollars we can download any book we want for the next year. We decided this was the week to start taking advantage of this deal. We've read or listened to 8-10 books between the two of us in the past week. (We are very happy to still have internet.) So all is well at El Quebracho.
Argentine Scale--Are you a gordito?
While visiting the pharmacy (farmacia) we noticed this scale. Not many Argentines own their own scale so they offer the service at the pharmacy. Looks like it's a hit and the owners don't want people to confuse their health tool with a game.
The sign reads, "The scale is not for playing"
Spider the size of a small dinner plate (Don't worry, it's outside)
New Generator
Since last August when we first arrived in Argentina, we've been hearing about a new backup generator that was suppose to come any time. A month or so ago, we heard that it was on it's way, and a new flooring was poured in the old building to support the heavy contraption. However, when the generator showed up, it was way too big to fit in the existing building.
Oops. Someone forgot to measure.
So a new building is going up to house the gigantic generator.
The cement in the foreground is the old flooring, and the new foundation is in the background.
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