Los Andes

Last Sunday we drove to Los Andes, NE of Santiago, with another couple to deliver a package to the sister of a woman in their ward in Utah.  The sister in Chile is Hermana Frias.  She lives in a century old row house.  It was fun to see the inside of a Chilean home.  The original hardwood floors and 10 foot ceilings.  She had a beautiful little garden out back with fruit trees and a swimming pool!  It was the home she grew up in.  She fixed us a wonderful dinner, but would not sit and eat with us.  She insisted on serving us.  Anyway, when it was time to leave we couldn't open the door because the lock was broken.  There was no other way to get out of the house to the street.  All the front windows were barred, and there was no one living in either house next door so we couldn't climb the backyard fence and go through their home.  Blaine and Elder Macdonald decided the only thing to do was take the door off the hinges.  Because the opening was a little off square, it took them almost an hour to get the door out.  They took the broken piece out of the lock and put everything back together.  It was a good thing we were there, because there was no way for someone to get the door open from the outside.  They would have had to break down the door.  Hermana Frias told Sandy Macdonald and I that if we would come and visit again she would teach us how to make empanadas.  I hope we get a chance to take her up on that.

Here is a picture of Hermana Frias.