President and Sister Rappleye on her

birthday

 Lago Rinihue

 Flowers bordering the road along the shores of

Lago Rinihue

Love these flowers in the front yard of a

house on Lago Rinihue

 A worn out bishop

 The view of the Villarrica Volcan from the Erickson's

Panguipulli house

 Petrohue River

The sign at the Petrohue Falls

 Petrohue Falls with a view of Osorno Volcan

in the background

 More Petrohue Falls

 Petrohue Falls

 A glimpse of a raft taking sightseers "up close and 

personal" to see the falls

 Our favorite restaurant in Puerto Varas -- it's somewhere

in there behind all of the beautiful flowers

 Petrohue Falls

 A "marshmallow" field

A little friend in Villarrica

Elder Villarreal and Juarez with Volcan Corcovado

in the background.  Elder Juarez served after

Elder Carmen as the branch president in

Chaiten.  A local member was called and

sustained during our visit

 The community of Hornopiren where we caught one

of the ferrys that would take us to Chaiten

(Hornopiren means "snow oven" -- a community

surrounded by three snow-capped volcanoes)

 One of the ferrys to Chaiten -- a trip that included

travel by land and three ferry rides for a total of

twelve hours

 Back in Chaiten at our favorite restaurant 

(behind the car) with Chaiten Volcano smoking

in the background

 Meeting with some of the local members in Chaiten

An interesting styrofoam boat rigged up to visit the neighbors

Another day in Paradise

 Elder Juarez and Villarreal in their backyard with a

glimpse of the charred mountains in the background

 A waterfall in Chaiten on the former military base

 Scenes from the military base after Volcan Chaiten erupted

 More military base devastation

Military base

The Primary presentation in the ward
Christmas program

The missionary's contribution

The Barrio Centro bishopric plus recruits

singing "Si vas para Chile"

The missionaries caroling

Sister Martinez, Goodman, and Howard just

after Sister Howard's call home on Christmas Day

"The stockings were hung by the chimney with care . . ."

Santa found us in Chile

 The AP's - Elder Davis and Villantoy - enjoying

breakfast with us on Christmas morning

 The nativity gift from Elder Goodman - a "pesebre"

made in Chile with copper and brass

A plate decorated with copper and the symbols of Chile

 Farewell dinner with some of our favorites

 Elder Jeremy Smith on his way home to Preston, Idaho

 Elder Carmen, returning to Salt Lake City

 Hermana Furniss with Huajupe, one of her investigators

who was baptized

 Elder Winsor

Elder Barker, the comisario who "trained us" for

six months, on his way to Pucon

 A bus stop near the community of Cararrehue, 

near the border of Argentina

 A fisherman's dream

 The fishing stream with "El Peine" (the comb)

in the background

 "This is going to be fun, right?"

Size doesn't matter when you're having a good time!

 An ox cart on the road between Panguipulli and Villarica

 Lago Calafquen, close to Lican Ray

 Goose crossing

 The Villarrica National Park with the famous Araucaria trees

 It doesn't get much better than this . . .

 unless maybe it is this

or this