Martha Gomez and her long black hair. Margaret wanted me to take a picture of her. She is helping us with our Spanish. She and her husband are coming to our home for dinner tonight.
Margaret with Christian Ramirez and his mother Blanca. He is going back to Cali, Columbia to school and stopped in the office to say goodbye before he left. More in the letter. This is the shopping cart contact.
Christian Ramirez and his mother Blanca.
This is the package we received from Julie Grant. It cost $100 to send, but arrived in about two weeks. Julie had picked up for us a n umber of things that we needed. We were grateful to her for her work and getting that to us.
A Picture inside the farmers market. Mom is in a black dress just past the oranges purchasing some vegetables
Dear Family,
It has been another busy week in Antofagasta, but it is only going to get worse. We have new missionaries coming, old missionaries leaving, and missionary transfers between sectors. We will be picking up missionaries, and shuttling them to various locations and dropping off their luggage in the office and at hotels. Also we begin Zone conferences again, which means we will be traveling to the north and south of the mission again unless the mission president feels sorry for us and does not have us try and do all of that again. We also have leadership council coming up. We had a little bit of a lull in our work, but now it is going to pick up again.
We were pleased to have Christian Ramirez and his Mother come to tell s goodbye. They are the shopping cart couple we met at the grocery store. We had them over for dinner twice and had the missionaries come the 2nd time. Christian was able to go to the church with the Elders and loved it. I think he is well on the way to baptism, but unfortunately has now left and is in Cali, Columbia. We have given all of the information to the mission there, so we hope they will pick things up and we can get a report of his baptism. His Mother Blanca also invited us to her home and wants the missionaries. It seems she is very interested in the church as well. We were so pleased that they would take the time to walk to our office just to tell us goodbye. It was very special to us. I think the Lord led them to us.
We are having Maria and Mark over for dinner this evening. She has been helping us with our Spanish. She is really a fun lady and wants to help us without pay. She has given us an assignment, so we are really going to have to study to be ready for her this evening. They are Evangelico, and are religious people. We have explained some about the church to them, but it will probably take some time with them. They seem to be pretty steeped in their religion. However, they were friends with Martha and Roldolfo Gabrielovich, and we felt the Lord Led us to them, as they are the watch repair couple. They too, are very religious, and they all go to the same church. We have invited them both to our house for dinner on the first part of September. We will have to wait and see what happens with them.
We have a good friend in Edward Gandalmes. He has helped us and given us some lettuce from his farm. He is 22 and has no religion and has not been at all interested in religion. He plays rugby, so today we plan to go and watch him play before we serve dinner to Maria and Mark. Edward is very cordial and nice to us. Without religion, he certainly has a high standard of integrity. He said his parents were not religious, but taught their children how to be good to other people. he has invited us to his home for dinner with his family, but we have not been able to find a time as yet. We really want to go.
It was surely fun to see Hunter come home from his mission. We thought we were going to miss that, but Jennah and Julie made it possible for us almost to be present. We could even see him come down the stairs. I am certain there are some happy times at the Klein home today. We will be anxious to get all of the news about that. We are surely proud of Hunter, as from all I could gather, he was an outstanding missionary and has set a good example for all of us.
We were excited to learn of a new Grandson that will be coming on my birthday (?). We shall see. I thought we were stopping at 32, but I guess there will be more. Amy is such a good mother, that I am certain the Lord would like to see her bring a number of his children to live in her home. I am certain Landon is excited to have a son with his name as well. What an exciting time.
We keep all of you in our prayers, as we know life can have its struggles. Even here, we have had some big challenges that we have had to deal with. We are working hard to learn Spanish, but trying to learn Spanish words for every word we know in English, is no small task, particularly at our age. Bryan has been kind enough to call us and give us some help with Spanish. We are amazed that Bryan could still remember so much Spanish after all of these years. He has a gift.
With much love,
Mom and Dad
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