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This blog is coming to you from an Airbus A320 somewhere between Costa Rica and Quito, Ecuador. And I have to tell you that in our 45-minute stopover in the San José airport in Costa Rica, flying from Mexico City to today’s destination of Quito, I saw neither a resplendent quetzal nor a three-toed sloth, must-sees in Costa Rica. But what I did see in the workshops on the public practice of Christian Science and Christian Science nursing that my friend, Alessandra and I conducted in Guadalajara and Mexico City was even better—a spiritual hunger to understand how to help others through prayer. (more…)
My friend, (Alessandra Colombini of São Paulo, Brazil) and I are just starting one…a two-and-a-half-month tour of ten Latin American countries, Portugal and Angola. We’re giving workshops on the public practice of Christian Science and on Christian Science nursing.
On a hot spring Saturday morning, more than 160 people gathered together for an all-day workshop, “The Christian Science Sunday School: Building on a Solid Foundation. “ It was held on a small army base less than a mile from the famous Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. Church members, Sunday School students, and their guests were joining together for a second time, following the Sunday School workshop that had taken place in Sao Paolo the year before.
Para un país relativamente pequeño, Uruguay tiene un movimiento fuerte de Ciencia Cristiana, que ha estado ya por muchas décadas. Tiene seis iglesias y una sociedad en la capital, Montevideo, y dos más en el interior. Dada las similitudes entre Uruguay y Argentina, así como el hecho que talleres de Escuela Dominical y reuniones para la juventud se llevaron a cabo en ambos países, cubriremos ambos países aquí. 
For a relatively small country, Uruguay has a strong Christian Science movement, which has been active for many decades. It has six churches and a society in the capital of Montevideo, plus two more in nearby states. Because of the similarities between Uruguay and Argentina, as well as the fact that Sunday School workshops and youth meetings were held in both countries, we’re covering both here. 
Los siete eventos para la juventud en Argentina comenzaron en una iglesia cerca de una de las plazas más grandes de Buenos Aires. Luego fuimos en autobús por las interminables tierras planas de cría de ganado para visitar una iglesia en Rosario. Ya entrada la noche nosotros trasladamos en auto a Santa Fe, para visitar su iglesia en una antigua casa en una tranquila calle de la ciudad. Por último, en avión y auto, llegamos a la pequeña y vibrante sociedad en El Bolsón. Este paraíso para los amantes del trekking, los mochileros, y todo entusiasta del aire libre, anidada en las montañas nevadas de los Andes del sur Patagónico jaló de las cuerdas de nuestros corazones para que quisiéramos quedarnos más tiempo, tal como hicieron todos y cada uno de los destinos y el grupo de nuevos amigos que conocimos en cada etapa del camino. 
The seven Argentina youth events started in a church near one of the largest plazas in all of Buenos Aires. Then we went by bus through the country’s endless flat cattle lands to visit a church in Rosario. Late that night we went by car to Santa Fe, to visit their church home in an old house on a quiet city street. Finally, via plane and car, we arrived at the small, vibrant, society in El Bolson. This haven for trekkers, back-packers, and outdoor enthusiasts nestled in the snow-capped Andes mountains of southern Patagonia pulled at our heart strings to stay longer, as did every single destination and group of new friends we met along the way. 
During our time in Argentina, Susie gave three youth lectures to about 230 people, approximately 40% of which were close to Sunday School age and/or new to Christian Science. Each lecture started with an explanation that youth is an attitude that everyone can express, with freshness, joy, love, energy and the welcoming of new ideas. Throughout each lecture, the loving and prayerful support of everyone involved was evident. (Highlights from the lectures will be made available in Spanish on tmcyouth.com, and the nine other TMC Youth activities that took place in Argentina will be described in our next blog.) 
Nuestros viajes en Argentina comenzaron en Buenos Aires. El movimiento de la Ciencia Cristiana tiene raíces profundas aquí con la primera iglesia habiendo sido formada en 1921. Hoy, hay tres iglesias y una sociedad en la ciudad y varias iglesias más y una sociedad en Gran Buenos Aires. 