Hna. Milne

Hna. Milne is the last missionary to return to Bolivia. She doesn't want to return but finish her mission here in Peru. She completes her mission the end of October. She has an elder waiting at home for her. He just got home from his mission. They are planning to go to school at Weber St.

We took her out to lunch at Mangos inLarco Mar in Miraflores. While there we saw these two woman

weaving. Then that night sister Milne spent the night at our place and did her laundry.

Family Home Evening Aug 3, 2009

At Family Home Evening we went to Rokys to eat. The Davies left for home this evening. They live in Sandy and worked at the Area office

August 2, 2009

After we moved on the 24th we had a missionary staying at our place for almost every night. On Sunday after church we took Elder Taco for a walk. Notice the beautiful flowers even though it is winter.

We went for about 20 blocks. We walked past the old mission home where I lived for nine months when I was here as a young elder.

Enchilada dinner

Scott bought the fixins and sent them with the Newbolds so that Karen could make Enchiladas. So on Saturday we invited the office elders, the assistants and elder Taco who was staying at out place for dinner.

Elder Cooke from Layton, Utah is the new assistant to replace elder Briggs.

Elder Taco came out of the hospital and stayed for 5 nights with us.

New missionaries 7/29/09

On Wednesday we received 16 new missionaries. Sister Gardner is from our old ward Bloomington Hills 4th Ward

Parents picking up their missionareis

The Newbolds and Bradfords came to pick up their sons. The Newbolds live in Bountiful, Utah and the Bradfords in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Elder Bradford was one of the Presidents assistants. His dad under Crowton was a defensive coach for BYU. Now he is the defensive cordinator for Mississippi State.

Karen baked dozens of cookies for these elders and they in turn would share them with the other elders. They both ended their mission serving in the provinces.

Elder Eichelberger is the son of Pam Newbold.

July 28, 2009 change

Elder Malale replaced elder Neuenschwander in the office. Karen with elder Adams and elder Briggs. Elder Briggs was the presidents assistant.

There were 19 missionaries going home and a lot of people came to tell them good-bye. Many to never see them again in this life.

Mighty Mite

This is the all powerful vacuum cleaner that we have to clean our apartment. It's just like the one I had in my motor home. What I wouldn't give for my Rug Doctor back home.

July 18th

The week before changes we went to the Inka Market to purchase some things for our grandchildren. The Newbolds who live in Bountiful are coming to pick up her son from his mission and are bringing two empty suitcases to take some of our things back to the USA. It turned out that we sent 77 lbs. of books, clothing, gifts, recuerdos, etc. We also bought the sweater that Karen is wearing at another booth for about $5. It is Alpaca wool.

Family Home evening July 6, 2009

When we go to the Area office, MTC or the temple we never know about the traffic. If we go any time after 5:15 in the afternoon it will take at least an hour to get there. Well we went to Home Evening and left just after 5:00. We were ahead of the traffic and got over there in a half hour. So we walked around the temple grounds. Our Home Evening was held at the temple presidents house which is in the corner of the grounds.

The templed is very beautiful. The flowers are in bloom year around even though we are in winter.

We saw this beautiful Hybiscus.

This is our group. Though on the 13th, the Earls from Moses Lake, Washington, The Davies from Sandy, Utah and Elders from Springville, Utah will all be going home. Who knows if we will ever see them again. The Earls already have another call to be the MTC President in Madrid, Spain January 1, 2010.

First P day with the Tylers

We decided to celebrate the 4th of July down here. Karen put it all together. She made a potatoe salad and a corn salad. I went to KFC and bought a couple of buckets of chicken. Also coleslaw and french fries came with it. Drinks, brownies and chocalte chip cookies that Karen made. We decided to go the Ancient Olive Tree park. Just as we put all of our food out to eat and had filled our plates, three policeman came and said that we couldn't eat in the park. So we gathered everything up and went back to the Presidents house to finish eating.

Elmers last day in the mission and Tylers first.

President hanging new map.
In the afternoon President and sister Elmer showed up at the office and introduced us to the Tylers.

On our way to the airport in the van. Elder Montalbo also went home. He needed to have his knee operated on.

Also our Area President Doug Nash was on the same flight heading to SLC.

Karen talking to Pres. Nash.

Telling Elder Montalbo good-bye. He is going home to Twin Falls.

President Elmer giving me some last minute instructions.

Sister Elmer and Karen saying their last good-byes.

One last hug.

One final foto.

Up the escalator. See you in a year. We love you.

Last Zone Conference for Elmers

This is the last Multizone conference in Lima that the Elmers had before going home. Just 5 days before going home. After the conference Sister Elmer, Karen and I took a taxi and we stopped at a Mexican restaurant to eat. Later that night sister Elmer was in the hospital and had her Gall Bladder removed. What a way to end your mission. She wasn´t able to fly to Cusco for their last Zone Conference over there and tell all the missionaries good-bye for the last time.

This is a great group of missionaries going back to Bolivia.

Elder Gurr, a great missionary was reassigned from the office to Andahuaylas.

Elder Gurr is from Salt Lake City.

He has been replaced by elder Eck from Arizona.

The Brignone's were serving in our mission in the Lima area. But they returned to Bolivia were they were called to. They are from the Seattle area.