MikeMaryMission

  Typical Buenos Aires morning. Dog walkers can handle virtual armies of dogs. As announced in the last blog, we have been reassigned to Salt Lake. We leave on Tuesday, May 26. We are flying to St. George to pick up our car and take care of some business and then head to Salt Lake on June 1. We are still part of the Buenos Aires (BA) North mission, at the BA area office. Everything we do is on line so we can just carry on with our work from there. We have meetings that take place over Microsoft Teams or Google Meet. We also have our own Zoom account that makes it easy to connect too.  A couple of days ago, Elder David A. Bednar was in BA and there was a special devotional for everyone who works in the area office. That means we have met/shaken hands with Elders Cook, Renlund, Causse' and Bednar. Also we have met Elder Dube, one of the General Authority Seventies.  This is going to be a really good change for us and we are grateful that location changes are possible. ...

The Just Serve booth about 15 minutes before the doors opened. It's one of the biggest there.  The 50th annual Book Fair in Buenos Aires is amazing. Argentines really love books. The OGC (legal department) spent an afternoon volunteering at the nearby convention center, where many nonprofit groups sold books and shared information about their causes. One of the largest booths was sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was directly inside the entrance. Part of the booth featured Sirve Ahora, or Just Serve, which helps connect people with community service opportunities. Just Serve They also had a crochet table where anyone could sit and crochet. People were making squares that would later be joined into blankets. The yarn was donated, and many participants brought their own crochet hooks. Anyone who wanted to learn was welcome to join.  This year marked the fair’s 50th anniversary, and it was wonderful that school-aged children could attend for free. O...