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We picked up Elder and Hermana Layton at the airport on Tuesday morning. They live just a few miles from us in Utah, but we had never met. They are remarkable people and we have felt the confirmation of the spirit that they have been handpicked to serve at this time as humanitarian missionaries in…

MANAGEMENT IN THE OFFICE This picture of our office shows where we have spent some very long days during the last two weeks preparing carefully for the new missionary couple who will take our place. We are closing out projects and preparing detailed notes for each prospective and in-progress project. MOMENTS TO OURSELVES We enjoyed…

Élder and Hermana Shawcroft have been serving in Buenos Aries for the past six months. Élder Shawcroft serves as legal counsel and Hermana has been placing the orders for Bishops Storehouses in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay as well as helping with humanitarian projects in the Buenos Aries area. They have moved into the Lindquists…

We spent the last 70+ Tuesday evenings inside the Santiago temple with the Lindquists. The strength we find within these walls has kept us all going through ups and downs during our mission service. We enjoyed our last Santiago dinner with them at our favorite French restaurant. Friendships gained in the mission field are such…

IMPRESSIVE SUNRISES, SUNSETS, AND SEASONAL CHANGES The crisp morning air and changing leaves tell us autumn has arrived in Chile. INVESTIGATING NEW FRUITS This is a pepino dulce. It’s about the size of a plum, has the texture of a ripe pear, and tastes like a cantaloupe. INTRODUCTIONS & IDENTIFYING NEEDS The communications director of…

COPIAPO We had a 5:00am airport pick-up on Wednesday morning. We flew 500 miles north for an entrega ceremony for our CESFAM project in Copiapo. CESFAM Dr. Bernardo Mellibovsky is the original healthcare center of eight-like facilities in Copiapó. It was built in 1993 with the capacity to care for 10,000 people. With growth over…

We spent three days in the office working diligently to close out projects and file project information for our replacements. This will be the routine for the final two months of our mission. We did break out a few times this week though. PLEASANT PICHIDEGUA We traveled two hours south for a ceremony at Hospital…

“A” A MUCH-NEEDED WEEK IN THE OFFICEWe worked from 9:00am to 5:00pm in the office Monday through Thursday managing the correspondence and documentation required for humanitarian projects. “B” BASEBALL GAMEOn Saturday we attended a Little League baseball game. Little League International has brought together more than 600 immigrant children ages 4 to 16 whose families…

On Monday we spent the day with some of the leaders of the South America South Area. They came to Santiago from Buenos Aires to visit us: Jorge Romero (Manager of Welfare and Self Reliance) Ariel Chaparro (Director of Temporal Affairs) and Juan Beltrame (property manager) One of our appointments was to visit the factory…

MONTE PATRIA After three days in the office, we hit the road for three ceremonies surrounding projects with fires and firefighters. On Thursday we drove six and a half hours northeast, close to the Argentina border to the small community of Los Laureles. On November 2, 2022, a fire broke out in Los Laurels, Rio…