Departing Missionaries

April 7, 2015

We thought it would get easier to say Good-bye but it never has!  Good-byes are hard!   This group is no exception.  This Mission will be miss them.  We miss them already!

Dinner in the Mission Home is always a wonderful meal together

Mission Story and Tender Mercy

April 5, 2015

Sister Harris is one of our Senior missionaries.  She and Elder Harris work in the Mission Office.  Sister Jimenez (red) is a Sister who going home.  Sister Jimenez is from Peru.  The connection they made with Sister Jimenez and the daughter of Sister Harris is a precious story.  An experience that connected the last day of the Mission for Sister Jimenez!  When they shared it with me, I asked Sister Harris to please write in down so I could share on my blog.  Here are her words

General Conference is my favorite time of year and for us it is family time.  So I was missing my family just a little. Sister Jimenez came in for her transfer home two days early so she could watch general conference and we were blessed to house her.  She is a beautiful person inside and out and we started asking her about where she was from in Peru.  My daughter Jenny was in Peru with a humanitarian service experience about six years ago.  We discovered Jenny served near her little village and attended the same branch. Sister Jimenez remembered Jenny and those who served with her.  They had been with her in her home. At the time Sister Jimenez was sixteen and in young womens.  The young women were having an activity making fancy hair accessories she wanted Jenny to come but jenny had to teach a nutrition class at that time so sister Jimenez made one for her.  So we skyped Jenny between conference sessions and they had a tender experience reminiscing.  Jenny still had the hair accessory and showed her. It was so fun for all of us.  It was Heavenly Fathers gift to me to be with Sister Jimenez and hug her as she spoke to my daughter.  The magic of the mission is real and it seems that tender mercies are ever present. 

Corumbá 

March 29, 2015

added to the Brazil Cuiabá Mission

Corumbá Brasil, Sunday it became officially part of our Mission. For years Coumbá has been in the Bolivia Mission because it is just across the border to Bolivia. Their missionaries from the Bolivia Mission speak Spanish and all their supplied come in Spanish, not Portuguese. They have wanted to be in a Brazil Mission. Last year we started the application with Church Leaders to bring Corumbá into our Mission. Not an easy thing to do to change the boundaries to 2 Missions in 2 different Countries. This isn't the first time to try either. Finally last month we received the good news that it was approved. Last weekend we went to Corumba. The President of the Bolivia Santa Cruz Mission, President and Sister Willard, met us there and we spent a day together. It was an amazing meeting with the Branch there, not soon to be forgotten. Corumbá is now in the Brazil Cuiabá Mission.  Here are some pictures. President and Sister Willard are from Gilbert, AZ!   It was a great day together.  

President and Sister Willard of the Bolivia Santa Cruz Mission

President and Sister Reber of the Cuiaba Brazil Mission

2 Missions, 2 Countries, 1 City

 Missionaries and Mission Presidents of Brazil and Bolivia

History was made today as Corumbâ became part of the Cuiabá Brazil Missionã

 With our Elders - Elder Johnson and Elder Viana

 With both Mission Presidents and the Branch Presidents family

Stake Conferences

March 2015 

We have 5 Stakes here in the Cuiabá Mission.   2 Stake in the State of Mato Grosso and 3 Stakes in the State of Moto Grosso do Sul.  

This month we attended 3 Stake Conferences and spoke in all of them.  It is such a privilege to be here.

 After a recent Stake Conference the Sisters handed me this note!  We love our Sisters! 

March 22, 2015 

This young lady lives here in Cuiabá.  Her name is Meirynha Damasceno. 
We love her! 

Youth Activity in Sorriso

March 19, 2015

These youth are making Easter carrots filled with sugared peanuts to sell and earn money for a Temple excursion next year!

 District President André and his wife

 Branch President Moacir and his wife.

Caceres

March 4, 2015

Branch weekly activity
Attending the Branch weekly activity is something we have trying to support.  This month we assigned Elder and Sister Davis, Elder and Sister Harris each a week to attend.  Then President and I took a turn.  It was fun and well attended.  The kids find joy in simple activities such as musical chairs and relays.  They enjoy being together.
We love this Branch and the members here 

 

 Love our Missionaries here

 

Wonderful Branch members

 

Such cute boys

Beautiful girls

                                      

This ym's name is Isaque.  We found him.....or he found us about 9 months ago.  President and I were out in the Plaza of the city.  He was working in a restaurant and saw us walking by.  He was Baptized in Campo Grande.  When he moved to Caceres he didn't know if the church was here.  He was happy to know that there is a Branch and wants to start activity in the church.  Tonight at this Branch Activity we saw Isaque.  He is preparing to serve a Mission.  We were very happy to hear this news.  Miracles happen everyday here in this MIssion.  We love it here! 

Stake Conference 

March 8, 2015

The Area President was our Visiting Authority 

President Costa