Sunday, May 19, 2013

A SPECIAL LUNCHEON

We have been really busy over the past three weeks training our replacements for the executive secretray job in the office of the presidency.  Joan and Garry Boyle from Arizona arrived about three weeks ago and have been working hard ever since!  They are really lovely people and we have become good friends.  We have now picked up our full time load of audit work and we are making lots of plans to work hard on that program again!  Although, I have to say, I am still working with Joan a little and Michael is actually doing some work to help Garry out for a while longer.


This weekend we visited two of our Assistant Auditors here in the Buenos Aires area.  Yesterday we visited Horacio Nieto and his lovely wife, Amelia.  We brought a new cell phone to  Horacio  and discussed some of the audit problems in his area of West Buenos Aires.  Their apartment was old, small and very, very beautiful.  Amelia is quite an amazing cook and prepared a most delicious lunch for us consisting of a fresh fruit salad and  a variety of small sandwiches and homemade empanadas. The crowning glory to the lunch was a homemade peach cream cake!  it was about 10 inches  high and it was absolutely delicious.  We enjoyed our afternoon with them and felt very enriched from the experience.

Today we drove out to Buenos Aires South and took a cell phone to Enrique Garcia, our auditor in that area, and had a wonderful visit with him.  He is a very warm and friendly person and does a really good job on keeping all of the audits in good order.

A couple of weeks ago the wives of the Area Presidency organized a luncheon for all of the wives of the couple missionaries in the office.  It was a truly wonderful afternoon filled with meeting these three amazing women and visiting with each one of them.  They have planned to have a luncheon with us on the first Tuesday of every month.  So this will be a very fun activity to look forward to on a regular basis.  There was a great deal of love and happiness in the room during the luncheon with everyone feeling that this is a very good idea and yet another experience that we will treasure.

We will be heading out again on our travels in a few weeks.  Michael and I are in the process of planning where we need to go and who of the auditors could use an extra hand!


Luncheon


Joan Boyle and I!

The group of missionaries!