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ious meal and the elders of course ate every bit the menu was sweet pork tacos thanks sister packer saying goodbye to carolina at the libreria were i buy the office supplies she has become a good friend through the years and we both laugh as i struggle to explain what i need not knowing all the spanish words we even got good at hand language a family to sign language president s beloved bonsai was given to laura mallea our housekeeper she knows how much joy it brought president each morning to water maria and talk to her sister mallea will take good care of her had to take a picture of the guy at the shell station who pumped our diesel fuel every week these people become our close friends as we visit with them weekly our assistants when we left were elder harvey and elder leal they tried so hard to make our exit on the mission smooth and trouble free if only at least they tried the last week was a great trial of problems after problems we tried to leave the mission in the best shape we could and thus we were dead tired when the last day arrived saying goodbye to nestor cabral the man in charge of all the physical facilities in the mendoza area he is in charge of over a hundred church buildings an almost impossible task for a man with a crew of three or four men nestor has become a dear friend and has always been there for president as they both worked through the problems of the mission the photo may be blurry but this moment will always be imbedded in our minds as we watched the avila family get off the airplane and begin their adventure in mendoza president lindahl giving president avila a big abrazo the avila family from buenos aires called to serve a mission in the argentina mendoza mission president avila is only 47 years old and so will have the vitality and energy to get out and train our missionaries he has served as an area seventy in buenos aires and so he knows the program the pit falls and what needs to be accomplished to grow the mendoza area our last hug with sister laura mallea our housekeeper she has served us well and has kept our confidences she promises to never tell our secrets if we don t tell hers a great arrangement we will miss her shining face and beautiful smile thank you laura for everything we love you showing the avila s the 6th floor condo they will now call home with bringing children on the mission i am sure they will need to make some changes but we hope that they are happy saying goodbye to our dear friends mauricio and fabian larrubia and mom at our fruit and vegetable stand they have been helping us weekly for 3 years it is hard to say goodbye to people who are so a part of your life though not members of our church we can always hope that their hearts will soften and they will remember the times we shared our souls with them good bye to our office elder hoggard historian who has helped us put old videos back together gather all the pictures of our missionaries and print off our old aguas de cuyo newsletters through out the last 3 years thank you for your love and service elder hoggard that is the cleanest i have seen your office in months i hear children singing mission office joke antonio lusvardi the man who made every repair in the mission office chapels mission home he is a man who can fix or build anything again not a member of the church but possibly the most dependable human being alive we had an on going joke with him when he would come to our mission home and fix something we would offer him our mormon wine which of course was our famous grape juice grown and made locally in mendoza he thought the joke was funny and even found us another supplier of grape juice in town and brought us new bottles to try on the left is elder durran he was a missionary who was called to serve in venezuela but who couldn t do the walking because of a knee injury he came and served with us for two months while they were evaluating his knee to see when he could return to the mission field he was affectionately called my esclavo my slave he was so capable and intelligent he could do anything lucky mission president that gets him on the right is elder ivie the mission secretary most of elder ivie s time now is spent in trying to keep the missionaries in the field since argentina now only allows our missionaries a one year visa just another of the trials we experience here in this country elder packer from layton utah who serves as our postmaster and keeps the missionaries in supplies books pamphlets garments etc he also has set up an emergency program for the mission he elder boisados and i traveled the mission inspecting the pensiones and putting up the smoke alarms the mission apartments are now in good shape as we prepare the mission for a new president elder boisados the pensionista who is in charge of all the apartments and contracts he was learning english words as we traveled the mission while i was learning the spanish equivalent thanks for handling such big problems elder boisados we have changed every apartment 65 since we have been in the mission trying to bring the conditions and surroundings of the apartments up to a higher level number one for safety and number two so the missionaries could concentrate on their work and not always be spending time trying to boil water to take a bath sister packer my dear friend and confident she is the mission nurse and i felt good that i was leaving our missionaries in her competent hands our plans are to meet up after they finish their mission 7 more months and sculpt together brother moto a man who works with nestor and helps fix the chapels he is the uncle of one of our favorite missionaries elder wajchman who served as an assistant the day president has been waiting for for months the shifting of the mantel i had to document the moment as president lindahl passed the phone over to president avila in that split second president lindahl was released from his three year mission to the argentina mendoza mission just to make getting out of the country difficult we ended up spending three hours at the airport paying visa fines and being interogated by the customs people after a gift of 600 pesos they finally let us get on the airplane as the airport official slide the 600 pesos in his pocket it was great closure for three years of trying to not to be thrown in jail and so president james b lindahl and sister colette a lindahl say farewell to our dear sweet capable spiritual giants our missionaries we will love you forever as our sons and daughters thank you to all the parents out there who have raised up these fine young people to serve with us in argentina they are the lord s army in these latter days posted by president and sister lindahl mendoza argentina at 1 19 pm 5 comments sunday june 26 2011 the last few weeks our travels took us through out the mission in two weeks the picture above is of the type of desert scape you see as you drive down the highway along the foothills of the andes mountains the desert stretches on for hundreds of miles low flat desert similar to driving through nevada or utah san juan is a friendly town the people are warm and loving our greatest number of baptisms come from this area above is a palm tree that we have passed for three years going to the chimbas stake center president wanted to turn around and take a photo of this man in front of his knife shop the man was out on the sidewalk sharpening knives you will see that his sharpening stone is placed at hand level which is attached to a chain run by pedaling the wheels of his stationary bicycle actually quite ingenious a close up of his work it might be dangerous work but i notice he still has all of his fingers intact so the aclu can rest assured that all is well driving to the retiro chapel in chimbas was quite interesting you will notice the far off look in the eyes of our traveling assistants elders bigelow and roberts we had to take a few detours along the way which brought us through dangerous neighborhoods called villas where you shouldn t be driving a nice car but this is what we go through to meet with our elders for interviews as we arrive at the retiro chapel off in the distance we see two handsome young men walking towards us gratefully we greet them since they are the ones with the keys and it is a very cold day in the san juan area our two zone leaders of chimbas zone elder burns idaho and elder menocal nicaragua when you look into these faces you can see why people are drawn to them not just because they are smiling it is because they have something different in their eyes it is a special light that light is what we are all seeking these two young men are living their lives as close to perfectly obedient than maybe they will their whole lives twenty four hours a day they are disciples of christ they don t come in when it is cold or too hot in the villas or nice neighborhoods they carry the same message of hope and love so what you see in their eyes is peace they are doing what they were set apart to do to bring others unto christ leaving the villas following the customary sight of a wagon drawn by a horse these poor boys are picking up what useful metal or wood that they can to sell for money these are the people who break your heart they will grow up doing this and their kids will do the same perhaps our last walk through san martin park down from our home on avenida emilio civit we will miss our walks which aired our brains and kept us alive our path takes us around the lake in the park we figure our walk is around 4 1 2 miles our favorite part of the walk is taking a moment to sit on the bench on the island and watch the sculling teams practice around the lake o k so it took us 3 years to do it i told president that i was not going home before he took me to the little cafe across the street from our home and buy me a factura pastry and a cup of hot chocolate after our walk in the park on our last p day we did just that saturday afternoon the paez s took us up the canyon to one of their favorite walking spots it is an area 20 minutes off a gravel road where there is this little community where all the homes are made of the local rock inside and out they are very quaint we had a nice hike on a very chilly day bishop paez got out of the car so we could take a picture of the ruins of the old indian fences that still survive this divided that land and the animals they were keeping inside the canyon are was full of granite rocks of various colors there were green colors orange red and black as we were saying our goodbyes to them bishop paez gave us a gift it was some hand crafted items from mendoza a bracelet for me and a scarf and concho i had to document though the sack that they were wrapped in vino wine i made a joke about the bishop giving us a gift of wine it was all in fun on the highway to san luis we always see accidents and are delayed this time is was a potato truck which jack knifed and dumped its contents onto the road they were salvaging what they could the highway to san luis is dangerous because of the high winds along the road there were many trucks pulled over waiting for the winds to calm leaving the interviews in valle de uco a group of latinos came out to take pictures with president i thought it was a unique photo op myself our missionaries represent so many countries left elders obaldia panama gomez argentina portillo el salvador trujillo peru in san luis we found our elders happy and well but cold we made it even colder by ordering ice cream for the zone this is the villa mercedes zone minus the zone leaders from san luis on the right standing sitting around the table on the left elder moon hyer esplin austin galdo standing left elders tanner how did you get in there esplin boyle ostler elders huntington and burr five kilos of ice cream gone added to the picture is elder yasan on the left being a good zone leader and not wanting anything to go to waste elder hyer volunteered to clean it all up yes even the left over ice cream isn t he so kind next we saw the san luis zone with a large group of sister missionaries the lovely ladies are sisters crapse ochoa cuello pelton this picture took us about five tries we all had our cameras on auto all 10 seconds but each of our cameras went off at different times most of the pictures have legs and arms hanging out but we finally got one with all of us fully intact with heads attached don t we look like the proud mom and dad of so many children back left elder price baker burr huntington esplin tanner moscoso roncal hermanas crapse ochoa cuello pelton to finish off the san luis tour president mitillo of san luis and his family took us out to dinner we took this picture in the hotel lobby they were very generous and kind and gave us two ponchos that we will always cherish we celebrated the birthdays of sister and elder packer their birthdays were june 19th and 20th how convenient to only have to have one party we invited the office staff and the assistants to come celebrate with us somehow i didn t think they would mind the roast beef and mashed potato dinner or the carrot cake we are so grateful to the packers for all of their help during the last 10 months they will stay under the direction of president avila for the remainder of their 8 months we can never give enough praise or gratitude for our senior couples who come here not speaking the language but do what ever they are asked they have earned their angel wings and more though you can t see them well there is left elders boisados leal harvey ivie sister pack elder packer elders hoggard bigelow roberts and elder kammerman s elbow can just be seen posted by president and sister lindahl mendoza argentina at 9 13 am 0 comments monday june 20 2011 missionaries arriving late all month each of the following elders have arrived at various times in the month president counted 10 times to the airport in one month we also include in that number two sister missionaries who left the mission for health reasons elder trujillo arrived after visa problems with the peru mtc elder moscoso from peru with visa problems elder christensen from brigham city came late after an injury in the provo mtc elder lue from el salvador with companion elder arrua elder gutierrez right from colombia with companion elder sierra lucky elder arrived in time to receive the clean pension award and chocolate given to his companion elder garcia right from guatemala with companion elder morinico i don t think i ever put in elder gutierrez right from grantsville with companion elder canaza he arrived a month and a half ago because he was fast tracked in the mtc because he already spoke spanish he arrived in the middle of a transfer also posted by president and sister lindahl mendoza argentina at 3 55 pm 0 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom called to serve picture contributors president and sister lindahl mendoza argentina colettelindahl 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