PAINTING ROCKS

We have a beach close by that is full of smooth stones, which is unusual here because volcanic rock is mostly craggy.  We brought a bag home to paint with the JAS kids.  They liked the idea, but 2 of them ended up taking University Exams and we couldn't scrape up any of our non-members, so we only had 2 attend.  We had a lot of fun painting them.  They even wanted to take home the paints and paint more.  I might even do some more myself.  Pinterest has pages of cool ideas for painting rocks.

Luis and Valerie Painting away!

I painted the woman's head and Mike painted the island of Tenerife with a rainbow and sun and the monster.  It was funny that both wanted to write English words.  Luis speaks English and Valerie hopes to go to BYU and is studying English.

This picture was taken by Marlene, her husband Guillermo is on the front left.  They were baptized last week.  Next to them is a family from Italy, the Biscaros and then the Mendozas, who hosted us for Sunday dinner.  They are from Peru and she makes some very delicious Peruvian food.  She taught me and Elder Cloward, who likes to cook, how to make a pepper sauce for a potato salad.  You get 3 of these special hot orange peppers and scrape out the seeds and membrane to control the heat.  You chop them up with half an onion some garlic and fry them in olive oil for about 5 minutes with some cumin powder.  Then you put them in a blender with about 3 cups of milk and salt and the surprise thickening agent: slices of bread.  First she put in 4 but then added 3 more because we had more people.  It was very thick and creamy.   She poured it over cold boiled potatoes and sliced hard boiled eggs on lettuce leaves.  It has a little bite and is very tasty, even Mike ate it and he is a hard sell.  I am dreaming of some other things to do with it.