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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

A whirlwind visit from two Fun and Fabulous Red Heads!!



We recently received a visit from two great red heads, Adam and Stephanie. 


Adam and Stephanie were so nice to bring us lots of our favorite treats from the U.S., including some surprise treats from Stephanie´s family´s companies, "Crazy Richard´s Natural Peanut Butter", and "The Sister´s Sweet Shoppe", both located in Dublin, Ohio. We greatly appreciated and enjoyed these delicious gifts!

Adam and Stephanie also attended two sets of Sunday Church meetings, a Mission Transfer meeting, and a baptism with us while they were here. 

After we had all attended the "Trujui" Ward meetings in our Mission, the 30 year old bishop of the ward invited us all to have lunch at his house with his wife and four children and his brother´s family.The bishop had been bishop of his ward for 7 years already, and his ward was doing great! 

The bishop´s 6 year old daughter, Aldana, was especially personable and talkative to me and Stephanie, all in spanish, of course. It always amazes me how fast the little kids around here learn spanish, while I´m still constantly working at remembering the spanish words I study! 

It´s obvious by looking at the  photo that was taken after the lunch at the bishop´s house, that we had all enjoyed each other immensely.The opportunity to observe that family´s excellent example of righteous strength was inspiring to us all. 

Stephanie had a goal to visit very creative, "one of a kind" tango shoe store here in BA, so we took her to the store during some relaxation time in our schedule. 

Of course, Stephanie and I each  bought a pair of tango shoes at the store, just knowing that each unique pair was made with only us in mind!

 I will not be wearing my pair until after our Mission ends, and they are conservative enough that I will be wearing them them to Sunday Church meetings. Stephanie said that she planned to wear hers to Church on Sundays too.

After we had attended a baptism at Castelar Ward in our Mission, we all had a relaxing stroll across the bridge at Puerto Madero, where Adam and Stephanie posed for us on the bridge in the balmy night breeze.

Thanks so much for your visit Adam and Stephanie. We made some great memories together!

2 comments:

nanamoo said...

Dear Presidente and Sister Benton,
Thank you so much for keeping a blog. I have read every word of the entire blog since we received our mission call on Friday. I have also listened to your "Into the World" broadcast. What a wonderful mission! What great traditions you have with your missionaries! We can't wait to spend more time with you learning as much as we can in order to carry on :)
Sincerely,
Debbie and Doug Carter

Grandma Z said...

Hello Sis Benton,
I love seeing these photos of Adam. He found another red head.
I've lost your email address and want to ask you for a recipe. If you ever check for comments here I hope you will write me at
Oceanviews818@gmail.com
Love, Dorothy Z