1000 days in Peru: 600 Days in Peru

Elder and Hermana Burt return home on May 6, 2014 after diligently serving in the office for 18 months.

Hermana Burt with new Hermanas. She taught them while they were in the CCME

Elder Burt teaching about the mission finances on Change Day.

The Tyler Borg family came for a visit in April.

President Borg and Elder Caraballo do a radio show. President Borg answers questions about the church

The Hallett family came for a visit in March

Brady stayed with us while Nate and Katie went to Machu Picchu. Here he is with our Assistant Elder Huber playing with his super heroes. He loved playing in the office with the Elders. I think they had fun too.

Our newest group May 6, 2014

May 6, 2014

March 25, 2014

February 11. 2014

President teaching at multi zone conferences

More Peruvian carts. They are all over the city. I love them

Flower cart

Fruit cart

We are really working with our Latin Elders teaching them English. Here we are playing a game of cards learning English words.

This is one of our Elders taking the English test. If they pass it, they get a certificate from BYU.

I do my grocery shopping at a store called Wongs. When the store first opens, the baggers line up and give you a big welcome. I think I am a favorite customer, 230 missionaries!

When we left for our mission, I packed up my easel, paints and paintbrushes and stored them away. I have not seen anything over the past 18 months that made me wish I could set up my easel and paint until one day we passed this little fruit stand. As we passed by, I begged Alan to stop and take a picture for a future painting

Baptisms--wonderful!

Love the Elders!

Today we went to do apartment checks and interviews in the zone, La Libertad. It is summer here, very hot and humid. When we drove up to the chapel, our two assistants were standing outside the front door. They walked out to the car, gave us hardy missionary welcome and handshake. As we were gathering up our supplies, Elder Huber, one of the Assistants casually explained, "This is one of the only chapels in our mission that has air-conditioning." This simple sentence caused me to experience Much Joy! The thought of sitting in a cool room for the hours required to teach and interview twenty missionaries was exhilarating! Elder Huber continued explaining how they had come early to get the chapel ready and cooled off for our meeting. When they turned the air-conditioning on, the fan disrupted some pigeons that were nesting on the fan. Feathers flew. The pigeons were in the chapel. There was a lot of chaos as the pigeons flew around the chapel chased by the missionaries. The thoughts of sitting in a air-conditioned chapel disappeared as the story unfolded. I was sad. Then we all laughed.

We entered the church, greeted the missionaries, and started the meeting. We started to sing the opening song and when we looked down at the words, there was a pigeon feather sitting on the page. Missions are fun!

P.S. The air-conditioning worked!