Impromptu party

Well I was going to talk about the markets today, but this morning we were invited to an impromptu fiesta at our place! We were on our way out to San Lorenzo to our group meeting, when we received a text from our landlord on the floor below us, inviting us to a get together in the courtyard. A missionary couple who have been here for over 20 years were reassigned to our congregation (in the same city) so a fiesta was organised to farewell them from one congregation, and we were there to welcome them to the next one! There was also a group that came down from Santa Cruz, but my Spanish wasn't good enough to figure out whether the two events were related.
   It seemed a lot of effort went into it, there were quite a few skits and traditional dances, some by children, some from this area of Bolivia and some from Salta Argentina. Follow these links to see video clips of the dances, and also a skit which must have been hilarious if fluent in Spanish. I got the gist of it, it seemed the tracts, magazines etc were fighting over who was the most effective, then in steps the Bible! Here is a link to watch it, (the first two are dances, the third link is the skit) but it probably won't mean much to you if you don't know Spanish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BmcNH_wjhc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwGYMi_gxRY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqnHWyjlNX4&feature=youtu.be
Lois in action!

 Some Albanian brothers and sisters got up and sang a song in their language with Spanish flash cards, and we were a bit nervous as we heard quite a bit about "Kiwis" and half expected to have to perform. We got away this time but will definitely need to practice a Maori action song in case, for next time.
   There was music and dancing from all over South America, apparently they worked their way through each country. The local brothers and sisters absolutely love dancing. Some were up for over 6 hours straight! Lois was in her element matching it with the best of them. I even got up for one dance because of some derisive looks from the locals when they found out I hadn't been up yet!
   Next post back to the markets, I promise!

PS - Our internet is terribly slow at the moment, it took about 12 hours to upload a 4 minute clip, so I have had to post this with only one link. Over the next day or two I will add links to video clips as I can.