Christmas in Mendoza Mission

Here are some pictures of christmas dinner in the mission house with the Office Stuff and the family of Elder Resek, area seventy.

Missionaries waiting to eat.

Elder Resek with the office's missionaries

Christmas Eve dinner

Arriving safe and sound, our newest missionaries

We are always so happy to greet our new missionaries and this is no exception. They are a great group. These are some of the photos of the first day and their new companions.








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Goodbyes and lots of tears

We all agree, seeing our old missionaries depart to home is a heart tugging experience. They are great missionaries and we will miss them so much. Good bye and have a wonderful life, " 'til we meet again".

A short visit to the hospital

Sometimes our missionaries get sick and need medical attention, fortunately it's very uncommon. Elder Gonzalez in the bed being fed and pampered by Elder Falcon on his right and his companion Elder Boisado and Elder Christensen on his left. Also, Sister Packer his Mission nurse checking up on him. With all that attention is there any wonder he healed quickly and was back to work in a few days?

Training meeting for our "newbies"

Sometimes when our new missionaries come to the mission, they come 1 or 2 or more at a time, and rather than have many small training meetings, we will wait and have one big training meeting. This is one of those training meetings with our newest missionaries and their companions. President says they are a really good group of missionaries.

Our little Thanksgiving Feast

What are we grateful for in Mission Mendoza? So many things it is difficult to count, the Lord has blessed us so much in so many ways. But for a few hours last Saturday, we were very grateful for a beautiful Thanksgiving turkey on our office table, thanks to President Avila who in spite of the cost, made sure we had our turkey, unfortunately only the office Elders were able to enjoy it, and that they did.

The beauty of Mendoza

Everyday we see how beautiful our Mendoza Mission is and I thought we should share some of those sights with others, so here's a few.

Our newest missionaries

These are pictures of our newest missionaries as they first stepped off the plane. We apologize for the poor quality of the some of these photos. We are happy to have them here.

President and Sister Avila with Elder Alberro, Elder Squires and Elder Larisch


Elder Squires
Elder Larisch
Elder Albarro
The Avila family on left and Elder Squires, Elder Larisch and Elder Alberro
And here they are in the office ready to go to work with their new companions.


Welcome to Mission Mendoza.

Cerro de la Gloria

Elder T. Frost and Elder Tingey ran all the way up to the San Martin monument on Pday at least a 2 mile run to see this beautiful sculpture in North West Mendoza next to one of the largest parks in Mendoza which also contains the Mendoza Zoo. From this viewpoint you can look out and see the entire city of Mendoza.

A little PDay Fun!

Will Elder Lounsbury make it across the ditch??

Our Hermana's hard at work in the kitchen.

Our Elder's hard at work, waiting for the Hermana's to finish in the kitchen.

A birthday party for Sister Anderson. Sister Thatcher on her right, sister Dana on her left and Sister John in front.