We woke up this morning and loved our room still! It was
fantastic! We ate breakfast and went to the Recoleta Cemetery. That place is
incredible--- there are so many graves and tombs there! Some are very ornate
and well-preserved, while other are dumpy and falling apart. We toured around
and saw presidents, military leaders, and even Eva Peron’s tomb. It was like
its own little city in there. We were sure to stop by Evita's Grave!
Afterwards, we walked over to Florida street to shop and
tour around. We went to the Galerias del Pacifico mall—a very nice mall with
super nice stores. We ate lunch there, then went exploring for goodies. We got
drink coasters and were exploring for jerseys but didn’t find anything we
liked. We enjoyed walking around the little side markets and life there. We got
some more ice cream and enjoyed our leisure day. We then took a taxi back to
the hotel to get our bags and head to the Temple. We really didn’t want our
taxi lady to come get us because it would be ridiculously expensive for her to
take us to the Temple, so we had the hotel get a remis for us. I was nervouse
they’d show up at the same time, but luckily the taxista didnt show. Phew! It
turned out to be a very good thing we were in a remis and didn’t pay by the
mile/time because traffic was HORRIBLE. It took us way longer to get down to
the hotel/temple than we were planning on, but luckily we were able to check in
and go to the temple on time.
We entered the temple and were greeted by plenty of
English-speakers. There are 6 or 7 American Senior missionaries serving there,
so that made things really easy for us. Our session had about 7 people in it,
but it was great for me to do the session in Spanish for the first time. It was
tough because it was in Vosotros. Hayley was listening in in English and
accidentally said “YES” in English for all to hear. It was very neat to be
there in the Argentine temple where my converts go and missionaries take out
their endowments. That building is very special.
We ended our night eating crackers for dinner because there
was nothing else close to the Holiday Inn we stayed at. Bummer. Off to America tomorrow!
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