Dear Family and Friends,
Another
week full of great experiences has passed. Monday we were invited to an
asado (BBQ) at the home of the Grau family. We had a fun night of
eating and visiting with most of the wives and members
of the mission presidencies we served with here. The
Cellas, Vidals, Jaras, Ocampos, Graus are all wonderful people and we
learned a lot from them. We shared scriptures that related to our experiences in our service together and it was a sweet evening. We love so many of the people we have gotten to know here so much!
Tuesday
we went to lunch with President Beck, the General YM President
,President Osguthorpe, the General Sunday School President and President
Arnold(Area President). They were in Paraguay to hold some meetings with
the leaders and youth. After lunch we had our Exit Interview for the
mission with President Arnold. We can´t believe we are at that point
already! Mark spent the rest of the day driving President Beck to his
meetings and attending them also.
Wednesday
the packers came and packed and took away our clothes, books and other
items that are heading back home. The house looks bare without our
photos and personal items in it. As the van was being loaded our sweet
helper Lidu was out on the patio crying. We will miss her so much ! She
has been a sweet friend and help to us and the mission! She has worked
for 5 mission presidents now and knows way more than we do!
Thursday
and Friday some of the 18 missionaries who will be finishing their
missions next week came into the office for their interviews. It was fun
to see them and their companions! The office was being painted all week
and recarpeted so everything was a bit crazy but it´s time to get it
ready for the new president!
Saturday
we drove to Encarnacion for another interview and then went to
President Perez´s home for dinner. It was a nice evening eating and
saying our goodbyes to them.
Sunday
we drove to Natalio Diez where a chapel had recently been remodeled.
Mark had been asked to dedicate the building so we enjoyed the block of
meetings ending with the dedicatory prayer. We saw Elder Hopkins and
Stewart who had helped with the open house there the day before. We again said final goodbyes to sweet friends there and then drove to Ciudad del Este for more interviews.
We are planning to meet a former missionary and his father for dinner tonight which will be fun. Elder Facer taught
one of the waiters at the hotel and he is excited to see him again and
see if we can get him ready to receive the missionaries again. Robert
has become a good friend of ours over the last few years, we hope
someday he will be ready to accept the gospel and bless his family.
Today
is Father´s Day and We are grateful for the wonderful fathers that we
both have. I am grateful for the great father Mark is to our children
and we are grateful for the way our sons and sons in laws are raising
our grandchildren. We have been greatly blessed!
We
love the mission! We love this work! We love the things we have
learned. We love our missionaries! We love the Lord! We love Heavenly
Father! We are so grateful for all we have experienced over the past
three years. We will never forget it and will never be
able to give enough thanks to our Heavenly Father for what we have
experienced here in
Paraguay. Love, Mark and
Sandy
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