Serving Together Argentina

We began the last month of our mission by having an awesome visit with Martha's brother and sister-in-law Bill and Carin (Elder and Hermana Taylor).  They are serving as Humanitarian Aid missionaries in the South America South Area in the church offices in Buenos Aires. We wanted to visit them before leaving Argentina and this last week it all worked out for us to visit, except for the freezing cold weather.  We really enjoyed spending time with them as they showed us all around the big city.  Buenos Aires is huge!  You'd need at least two weeks to see everything.   It's been so fun to share our Argentine experiences with each other.  We've talked on the phone several times throughout our missions.  We are in two very different places of the country but yet some things are exactly the same.  For example, the picture above is in their ward building in Buenos Aires.  The background you see is exactly the same in most of the church building...

Elder and Sister Barlow, us, Sister Barlow and President Barlow This past week we had a visit from the Barlows, all four of them.  Our mission president is Brad Barlow and his older brother Alan is serving with his wife as a senior couple in our mission. They arrived in January and will finish their mission next July along with his brother.  How fun would that be! Elder and Sister Barlow are currently serving in the big city of Resistencia but will be replacing us next month when we leave.  They came to this area with the mission leaders to check out the area and get to know a few members and the unique needs here.  Like us, they will support two branches and four groups which span about 400 kilometers.  They will come before we leave and we'll have a couple of weeks to show them around and acclimate them to our dear pueblito, Ibarreta! Bañado la Estrella at sunset Martha at sunset, not quite. The other reason they all came was to visit a wetlands called Bañado ...