Mother's Day in Uruguay One Last Time

Sunday, May 10, 2015

The office Elders were so kind in coming to our apartment and giving
me all these wonderful cards they made.
Elder Rogers also made me some cookies!

L to R: Elders Oliver, Olivier, Torres, Gutierréz, Delgado, Gallagher, Bauer, Rogers

Our husbands fixed us a nice luncheon after church.

Mike fixed the mission home's bbq grill and he

helped President Cook grill salmon.  It was marvelous!

President Cook tried to keep Hermana Cook out

of the kitchen, but she was so gracious in trying

to make everything perfect for us. She gave us

a vase with a beautiful red rose. 

Elder Anderson is quite the dessert maker!

Icing on the cake was to be able to watch Hermana King and
Hermana Bertuoli Skype their families. 

After all the day's actvities, we facetimed with all our kids and my Mom for the Mother's Day wishes. We finished about 2 am!  It was a perfect day! 

Surprise Package from Home along with Change Week

Tuesday - Thursday  May 5 - 7, 2015
Semana de cambios!  Change Week!

PACKAGE FROM HOME! 

The best part of my week!

(Note to self: do no look at how much the kids paid for postage)

Items included: new skirt and blouse for Mother's Day, sugar-free flavored drink mixes from WalMart (I know it's silly but it was great to see a WalMart item), 2 enormous jars of peanut butter, an enormous package of REAL chocolate chips (the missionaries will really love the cookies now), T-shirts, onion soup mix, italian seasoning, liquid smoke (thank you!), italian dressing mix, and lots of love from home!  

The rest of the week:  Food preparation, cook, serve, wash dishes and do it again and again!  Lots of work, but lots of love.

Hermana Sanhueza and Hermana King are being moved from downstairs!
We are closing the apartment and they are moving into Carrasco with
2 other hermanas.  I am so sad to lose the opportunity of having the hermanas
come up to our apartment and visit with us for a few minutes in the evenings.
No P-day either as they will go with the other hermanas to a computer kiosk
in the mall.  Well, it was VERY GOOD while it lasted!

 YouTube Video: Valientes for May Depart

Hugs and good-byes.

Valiente dinner in the mission home.

Hermana Lanuza

Hermana Martinez

Elders are so powerful!

L to R: Elder Lacey and Elder Lambert

Elder Cross

Elder Morris was an Elder in my favorite house in Vergara.

L to R: Elders Walkenhorst, Miles, Massey, Alder, Hobbs
All stuffed into our van.

L to R: Hermanas Armijo, Bustos, Louder, Altamirano

Back home to the United States.

Back in the Saddle

Friday, May 1, 2015

Back in the saddle...

Moving Elders out of Noblia. Area is being closed due to lack of
missionaries.

Repair work on dressers at Hermana's house.

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Capilla Abierta with two wards, Centro y Pueblo Nuevo.

YouTube: Capilla Abierta for Centro and Pueblo Nuevo

Both wards did great presentations. There was great member particiapation when asked for references. A reference card was starred by the missionaries with a non member.  This was a very successful evening for all.  The weather is getting a bit cooler, but the rain held off.

This church building is in the middle of a downtown area and looks
more like office buildings than a regular chapel.

We always have the Bishop start with a prayer meeting with all the
members of the ward along with the missionaries.

Lots of reference cards filled out. This is gold for the missionaries.

When there is lag time, Elder Burnett teaches.

I didn't take the picture, so the photographer missed getting all of Christ.

Sunday, May 3, 2015

We did our training for another out of the way ward, Sarandi del Yi, so we spent the night in the Durazno area. That road is very "country road", but at least there is not much traffic so you don't have to do alot of passing of slow vehicles. 

On our way home, we had a beautiful "moonrise" that I was trying to capture while Mike was driving. 

Some of them of course are blurry, but it was an interesting perspective. Sometimes the moon seemed way out there and then when we would turn the corner, it would be a beautiful, huge full moon. 

We made it back in time to attend the ice cream social at the mission home.  Whenever we have elders leaving the office staff, Hermana Cook gives them this nice send off.  They do work hard in the offices. 

Elder Delgado and Elder Leavitt. Elder Leavitt is being transferred.

Elder Torres is also being transferred.