During the night in Bolivia – Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, church is open for playing. We played basketball, baseball. You could go talk with the sisters because everyone goes there. They gather there…. It was a close Mormon community in Bolivia. We gathered together a lot. In the US it’s different. Churches are not open in the US. Just Tuesday nights or whatever for the youth. There it’s open all the time. Always. It’s not just our ward that would go. Because we had one chapel, we had outside basketball courts, and bishops would have meetings with the bishopric and bishops would have meetings other days. Everyone would go there. We’d have activities like Single Adults, Relief Society activities, too. Everyone was there. I came here in the winter. I was in Provo at that time. I was in the Spanish ward. I thought that church would be open, but they told me that the church wasn’t open on Tuesday. I asked Wednesday? Thursday? Friday? They said, “No, it’s not open here.” I don’t know why it’s like that. Maybe it’s that Americans are in their homes all the time. But in our culture you never go yourself in your house. We always need to talk with people, with neighbors. We talk a lot. Culture here is totally different. Here it’s like, my house and me. Just go Sunday to the church and that’s it.
But in our culture you never go yourself in your house. We always need to talk with people, with neighbors. We talk a lot. Culture here is totally different. Here it’s like, my house and me. Just go Sunday to the church and that’s it. I asked Wednesday? Thursday? Friday? They said, “No, it’s not open here.” I don’t know why it’s like that. Maybe it’s that Americans are in their homes all the time. But in our culture you never go yourself in your house. We always need to talk with people, with neighbors. We talk a lot. Culture here is totally different. Here it’s like, my house and me. Just go Sunday to the church and that’s it. Everyone would go there. We’d have activities like Single Adults, Relief Society activities, too. Everyone was there. I came here in the winter. I was in Provo at that time. I was in the Spanish ward. I thought that church would be open, but they told me that the church wasn’t open on Tuesday. I asked Wednesday? Thursday? Friday? They said, “No, it’s not open here.” I don’t know why it’s like that. Maybe it’s that Americans are in their homes all the time. But in our culture you never go yourself in your house. We always need to talk with people, with neighbors. We talk a lot. Culture here is totally different. Here it’s like, my house and me. Just go Sunday to the church and that’s it.