New Leadership

With this change we have wonderful new leaders here in our mission who are great examples of hard work, obedience, and faith.  We are excited for the help that you will bless our mission with.

Working together as assistants is Elder Villacressa and Elder Fairbanks

Hermana Training Leaders Hermana Blanco and Hermana Slade

Hermana Training Leaders Hermana Rolim and Hermana Cardenas

Great Leadership!!

Conducting and executing Concilio with all our wonderful Zone Leaders

Bragging about hard work

We are so excited that our son Joe was able to graduate with his Masters degree this week. We are so proud of his hard work as he has worked full time, had demanding callings, and been a great father.  We are so grateful for the amazing support of our wonderful daughter that we got by marriage, Lauren.  We love you all so much!  Congradulations Joe!

A Piece of our Hearts Leave

President commented this week, "why are we always saying goodbye?"  This is the part of the mission that is the most difficult, letting these great missionaries who have been a part of your life leave and move on.  We know that they are strong and we love them we just don't want to wait for the eternities to see them again.  Please stay close but most important, stay strong in the faith!

Hermana Diaz de Argentina

Elder Gundry, Elder Sever, Elder Crofts, Hermana Hilker, Hermana Santos and Hermana Taylor

Hermana Christiansen

Elder Zaugg

Back in time!

We arrived one day before our new missionaries got here and thank heavens we were here because we would not have wanted to miss this group of great missionaries.

Welcome Hermana Villela, Hermana Ledesma and Elder Hielo

Elder Rasmussen, Elder Skelton, Elder Robinson, and Hermana Stirling

We are so happy to have you!!

 Thanks for jumping right in to serve in this beautiful country!

Amazing miracles!

I really don't know how to begin expressing the amazing miracle that we have had in our lives.  Several months ago my husband started having some health problems but we were able to see a doctor here in Paraguay who felt that it was nothing to worry about.  We make a report of all medical situation to our Area Medical Doctor who felt like more tests were needed to rule out cancer.  We approached the doctor here twice about it but he refused to do the tests.  The situation was forwarded to Elder Schweitzer of the the 70 who examined all tests and felt that we needed more testing done.  We anticipated that we would go to Buenos Aires for more testing but the word came from Salt Lake that they wanted us to meet with a specialist the following week in Salt Lake City, an appointment one day and a biopsy two days later.  Wow!  There was so much going on here in the mission our heads were swirling!  We can't leave right now was our response.  We were assured that all would be taken care of here but we needed to go.  We took our son with us not knowing how long we would be gone or what our results would be.  We arrived on Monday night and went to the doctor the next day who did several exams and tests and by the end of the day assured us that there was no cancer right now and the condition could be controlled by medications and modifications at this time.  We called the next day for a flight back to Paraguay but they couldn't get us back out for a few days so we had the opportunity to drive to Idaho to see our Father Evans who had been struggling with cancer since we have been gone. Other family members had made arrangements to be there when they found that we were going to come for a day and a half.  We were able to spend sweet moments with our wonderful Father who passed away a few days later.  In that time he was completely himself and was able to give a wonderful father's blessing to President as we left.  How grateful we were to know that our Heavenly Father's love for this man was so strong that he brought us all the way from the other side of the earth to spend a few earthly moments with him before he called him home.  As a bonus all our children made trips so we could see and meet all of our 9 grandchildren, four of which have been born since we left on our mission.   A GREAT TENDER MERCY!

Testing Surgical Skills

Elder Hunter decided to test the skills of the surgeons here in Paraguay, what a great missionary he is!   We have had the pleasure of getting to know him a little better as he has recuperated in our home for the last two weeks.  Thanks for getting me out of a talk in Stake Conference Elder Hunter!  Thank you Elder Perez for your patience as your companion heals.

Prince of Peace

This Easter season the church has put out an incredible video that has been worth sharing with the entire country.  In addition to flooding with pass a long cards, we had a wonderful activity underneath the two large screens in Asuncion where 20 seconds of the ultimate part of the video was displayed.  One night of contacting under these inspiring pictures brought 250 contacts with an invite to come to their homes!   It is a good thing we have great missionaries to follow up on this.  Check out this awesome video.  It is worth the 3 minutes of your time.  https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2017-02-1000-the-prince-of-peace-find-lasting-peace-through-jesus-christ?lang=eng   Or

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2017-02-1000-the-prince-of-peace-find-lasting-peace-through-jesus-christ?lang=spa