I am thinking of all of the parents of our missionaries today, and how happy it might make you to see a recent photo of your son or daughter with all the other missionaries in our mission, in case your missionary hasn´t sent you one yet.
So, here it is. Our most recent "Mission Photo", taken in December, 2009.
President Benton and I cherish the opportunity to work with each one of these wonderful young adults. Thanks to you all for sharing them with us!
Enjoy the photo!
P.S. If you are able to enlarge this photo, notice all the well worn and dusty soles of the shoes of the missionaries in the front row. Those shoe soles represent lots of "walkin and workin" on the roads of our Mission (often up to 10 miles per day per missionary), as the missionaries go out daily to find souls and teach them the Gospel.
This post is to Brother Zimmerman, the Father of Hermana Sasha Lopez Zimmerman:
Yesterday, I spent the day teaching and tracting with your daughter, Sister Lopez-Zimmerman. Yesterday was also the birthday of your daughter´s companion, Sister Godfrey, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (her 22nd birthday), so we celebrated with gifts and a pancake breakfast that President Benton and I brought to their 4 sister apartment. We even found some practically non-existent bacon and syrup to go with the great pancake recipe we found.
So, the breakfast reminded us of fun breakfast experiences we´ve had in the U.S.(especially the smell of bacon), and we were also able to introduce Sister Leguizamon (from Argentina) to pancakes and bacon, which she loved!
I worked with Sister Lopez and Sister Godfrey all day, after the early a.m. breakfast, and I want you to know that these Sisters are both excellent, hard-working missionaries, and the Lord has led them to be able to teach a number of receptive children of our Heavenly Father. I believe this is because of the great faith of Sister Lopez and Sister Godfrey.
So here´s how the rest of the day went: we made contacts, we taught lessons, we tracted, we rode a couple of buses, and walked and walked and walked.
I especially liked it when we taught a "Senora" from the Dominican Republic, who was a creative, artistic, funny, and delightful woman who had two lovely children (a boy, age 10, and a girl, age 14). The kids listened in on the lesson, and seemed quite interested in it. The boy even said the closing prayer for us, after receiving a little direction from your daughter.
What a treat it is for me to spend time working with such spiritual and wonderful young women, on my favorite subject, which is The Gospel.
As you know, it´s all true, and it´s all a tremendous blessing in our lives!
Thank you for preparing your daughter so well for her mission and thank you for sharing her with us for 18 months! We love her!
P.S.:
The bottom photo is of me with your daughter´s roommates, Hermana Daniels on the left, from Sandy, Utah, and on the right, Hermana Leguizamon, from Cordoba, Argentina.
(Also, for those of you who don´t know Sister Lopez Zimmerman, she is from Missouri, in the U.S., and her mother is from Spain, and took her to Spain for 3 months every summer when she was growing up, so she speaks excellent spanish. Her dad also speaks spanish because he served a spanish speaking mission.)
To all of our family and friends:
We would like to say that we are having a happy and fulfilling experience together here in Argentina, and we hope you are enjoying many wonderful blessings in your lives too.
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
We keep you in our thoughts and prayers every day, and we hope each one of you knows that "We love you thiiiiiiiiiiis much!" (Especially all the members of our beloved family.)
