Mike and Dori Mission: March 2013

Today we had a great day! 7 missionary couples went to a ranch and enjoyed an asado and a Gaucho program !

Today we drove about an hour outside of Buenos Aires and had a great day at "Estancia Santa Susana". We enjoyed many wonderful and fun activities.....an

"Asado" (similar to a BBQ), a tango program, a lovely small museum and a Gaucho program with lots of horses...... oh and yes, Michael and several of the missionaries enjoyed a horseback ride. I enjoyed a fun ride in a wagon! It was a most relaxing day and one that we really needed as we have been working long hours. We have many pictures so I will put some up tonight and some up tomorrow! We so enjoyed our missionary friends and had a lovely, lovely day! Here are a few photos......

One of our favorite family movies is "Man From Snowy River" and "Return to Snowy River". Our favorite part is when Jim Craig precisely whips off small suspended rings with his whip . The Gauchos used another tool but it was just as awesome!

Today, we saw the Gauchos gallup on their horses at a fast speed and put a small metal object through a tiny ring suspended from a pole. These are some of the pictures. It was so fun to watch.

One of the lovely little balconies we pass everyday!

One of the many, many fruit stands all over Buenos Aires.

We cross these railroad tracks everyday on our way to work.

Hola everyone!

We have been back in Buenos Aires for about three weeks now and have been very busy with our new temporary assignment and our audit work. We have spent many hours into the evening and a couple of Saturdays trying to learn new tasks and adjust to alot of office work. We have kept in close touch with our assistant auditors however, and they are very busy trying to get all of the stakes within the four countries to complete their audits by the end of March. It is indeed a challenge for them! Every month we receive a stewardship report from each one of the 29 assistant auditors and we study the reports and answer each one of them in an email commenting on their work and their challenges and offering our help where needed. For the month of February, we received some great reports, but also word about frustrations and how some stakes are slow to begin the audits during this audit period. Our assitant auditors are continuing to assemble audit committees throughout the area and train them. We have received these wonderful pictures from a couple of our Assistant Auditors over the past couple of weeks.

A couple of Audit Committees in Paraguay

Hermano Beraud with one of his auditors in Paraguay

Hermano Beraud with another auditor in Paraguay, around Asuncion.

Hermano Tossen with an audit committee in Ushuaia. (the southern most part of Argentina in the Patagonia Region)

We really enjoy getting these photos. We are trying to print them off and we post them in our office!

One of the exciting projects we have going in our audit program is a brand new, (never been done before) blog: SAS AUDITOR. (South America South Auditor) . Hermano Perry who helps us in Chile is in charge of putting it together and keeping it updated. We put our ideas together with Hermano Perry and came up with a really good format. We hope to introduce the blog this week to our Assitant auditors! We are very excited. The church has a format within the church network for church organizations to post blogs, so it is really great. We have come to realize more and more how the technology in the church is there to facilitate many, many programs world wide.

Along with all of this we are enjoying sharing meals with the local sister missionaries, and they often stop by our apartment for some water and a short chat.