Ed & Debbie Lamb

SCHEDULE Last week included ONE round trip airplane flight to Puerto Montt, TWO ferry crossings to the islands of Chiloe and Lemuy, THREE road trips, FIVE school kit ceremonies, and EIGHT new project visits. SIGHTS WE SAW ALONG THE WAY Hay trucks and cows grazing outside of Puerto Montt STILT HOUSES OF CASTRO As we…

STANDARD SIGNATURE SUSTENANCE- THE COMPLETO The completo is a very popular food in Chile. As a matter of fact, whole aisles at the grocery store are devoted to different varieties. We are told that a good completo is measured by the quality of mayonnaise on top. We tried one- the completo had the texture of…

ONE PHOTOSHOOT Our week began with a photoshoot. A photographer came to our office and took pictures of us for the new self-reliance training manuals…we think.  Honestly, we are never 100% sure what is going on here with the language barrier. ONE LAST SCHOOL KIT ASSEMBLY PROJECT We had our last school kit assembly project…

PUERTO VARAS Last weekend, we flew to Puerto Montt (1032 km, an 11-hour drive or 1-hour 40-minute flight) Elder and Sister Lindquist accompanied us. We rented a car and drove 30 minutes to Puerto Varas, a beautiful city on the shores of Lago Llanquihue. The view was spectacular of the Osorno and Calbuco volcanoes. Puerto…

ESCUELA EQUIPOS We had two school kits assembly projects this week. One was in Rancagua, a city one hour south of Santiago (445 kits). And one with our own Pocuro ward members here in Santiago (570 kits). ÉLDERS We had a special treat in Rancagua. Hermana Lamb’s cousin, Sharon Udy Storrs, has a grandson serving…

We have set up dozens of tables during the last month as we prepare school kit supplies for assembly. Notice what other kinds of tables you see in our pictures this week. TALCA TABLES On Tuesday we drove three hours south to Talca for a school kit assembly project with JAS. We took Elder and…

What a week, full of joy and opposition. We are experiencing a constant combination of feeling exhausted and invigorated simultaneously. Instead of just briefly telling what we did this past week we are including the behind-the-scenes challenges so you can sense the full scope of our mission days. TRAVEL TO CASABLANCA We worked in the…

CASABLANCA Our week was wonderfully consumed with school kits. We spent Monday and Thursday at Camp Cumorah Casablanca with our fellow missionaries and the wonderful young people of the Santiago south area. Our group of eight senior missionaries is really in a groove now, each finding our own place in the process. We beat our…

PROYECTOS Most of this week was spent counting school kit supplies. On Monday we counted out items for 570 school kits for Friday’s Viña del Mar assembly project. On Tuesday we counted supplies for the Talca & Rancagua assembly projects. This required dragging heavy boxes out of a room and then reorganizing them into piles…

PASSES We had a serendipitous moment on Monday. We went to the Department of Health to make sure our mobility passes were still activated. Mobility passes are the way Chile tracks covid vaccinations. The pass is required to enter restaurants and to access any public- transportation. Many missionaries have been having problems with their passes.…