Another beautiful wedding

As many of you know Elder Jaden Mecham, I thought you might like to see his wedding picture.  Elder Mecham, married Alyson Porter on September 18.

Congratulations, Jaden and Alyson

My Family- 4 generation program

During the this interview cycle, Sister Marler is providing insight into the "My Family" Pamphlet

Elder Bates displays his "My Family, Stories that Bring Us Together"

The purpose of the "My Family" Pamphlet is to help people have an easy start to their genealogy, and through memories and stories, bring families closer together.

The pages include the names, dates and special memories of each missionary and their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. 

Sister Marler displays her eternal family as she teaches about the importance of using the "My Family" booklet. 

Our goal is to use this pamphlet while teaching and have those we teach have the opportunity to think about their family history and begin to more fully appreciate their family heritage.  Every one can get started on their "My Family" book, by printing from this link: MyFamiyBooklet-2.pdf

 "My Family" is available throughout the world in 22 languages.

Sister Marler loves her family tree, and here she displays pictures of her mother's family

Families are the basic, foundational unit of the Church of Jesus Christ.  It is within the family that we nurture, raise and train.  

In the closing chapter of the Old Testament, Malachi, shares the following, " Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers." 

The Angel Moroni reemphasized this message in his initial instructions to Joseph Smith in 1823, as the Gospel of Jesus Christ was restored to the earth.  Thus the statue of the Angel Moroni is place on each of our temples, as we sound the trump and welcome the Second Coming of our Savior

This is our goal, to bring families together for all eternity.

Guest Bloggers, Our Assistants on their interview experiences

En cada una de nuestras entrevistas con los misioneros tenemos la oportunidad de sentir un gran espíritu, a pedido del Presidente Marler nos aseguramos de dar seguimiento a todas las cosas que se han compartido en la misión los últimos meses y ampliar un poco mas la visión que todos tenemos de ayudar a las personas a las que servimos a un día entrar en un templo y hacer promesas sagradas con El Señor.

''Bring Them Home'' es nuestro lema de la mision, nos recuerda nuestro propósito como misioneros y por que hacemos todo lo que hacemos en la obra de salvación.
(Bring Them Home is our mission theme, it remind us our purpose as missionaries and the reason for everything we do in the work of salvation)

(In each one of our interview with the missionaries, we have the opportunity to feel a great spirit, as asked by President Marler, we follow up on all of the things that have been shared in the mission over the past few months.  We teach more about the vision we all have to help the people that we serve each day, enter the temple and make sacred promises with the Lord.)

Interviews with the Missionaries

Every quarter President Marler has interviews with each of our missionaries.  That is 250 missionaries, each sitting down for an individual interview.  It is probably one of the presidents favorite things to do.  He loves being with the missionaries, hearing of their personal progress and hearing their testimonies of our Savior Jesus Christ.

President Marler interviewing Elder Wright

Some of our Missionaries from the Chimbote Sur Zone 

The mission is divided into Zones, the Zones pretty much have the same boundaries as the Stakes (that is a division of the Church with 6-10 congregations).  Each Zone has 2 Zone Leaders, missionaries that have Christ-like leadership qualities, including charity, the ability to teach well, caring for others, etc.  There is usually one or two Sister Leaders Trainers that work with and train and care for the sisters in each Zone.  

Sister Gallacher awaiting her interview with Sister Paiva, one of our
Sister Leader Trainers

Each Zone has 12-24 missionaries.  It takes one day to interview each Zone, and 2 days for some of the biggest Zones.  So in one six week period we spend 18 days in interviews.  

Zone Este

During the interviews,  the Assistants and Sister Marler meet with the missionaries in their companionships and providing, help, insight and training.  We will have future blog entries sharing their presentations.

Sister Palacio returns home to Utah

Sister Palacio's last hour in Trujillo was spent with some very special friends.

 from the Wards she served in...

Sister Palacio with President and Sister Marler

Elder Winterton

Elder Winterton, our Personal Secretary turned 20 in August, we were having Multi Zone Conferences at the time an we celebrated a very belated birthday.  

Happy Birthday, we love you and appreciate all you do to keep the mission running smoothly.

Liderazco Meeting…90+ in attendance

We had a super-liderazco meeting on Wednesday.  All of our Sister Leader Trainers, Zone Leaders and District Leaders gathered to talk about or vision, our mission and our dedication to the 

Work of Salvation, the work of our Heavenly Father, 

to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.

Our Sister Trainer Leaders gathered together, we will have 2 of them go home in October and another 8 in November.  We can't believe that the Sisters who came with us will be going home so soon. It seems like we just arrived.

Here is the entire group, what a wonderful sight!

 We counseled with one another, examined our vision  and recommitted our work to the Lord.

 This was one of the most powerful, spiritual meetings I have attended, it was amazing.

 During a break we had time to chat and enjoy each others company,

 Our missionaries really love each other.

 President Bravo, Stake President of the Esperanza Stake, represented our 11 Stake Presidents and shared in this common vision for the work of salvation of Heavenly Father's Children.

 Elder Grewell and Elder Pearce

 Presidente Bravo y Presidente Marler, amigos, juntos por Cristo

 Elder Chempen, Elder Aquilar and Elder Gonzalez

 Good friends enjoying a great burger together!

Hermana Alzamora and Hermana Lasike

 Elder Flores and Elder Gonzalez

 Elder Cuno, Elder Zacharias, Elder Rybert and Elder McClelland

Elder Valencia and Elder Rittscher

(Back) Sister Pullan, Sister Worlton, Sister Watkins, Sister Lasike, Sister Gonzales, Sister Redd and Sister Evans, (front) Elder Buehner, Elder Brown and Elder Endicott.

Sister Paiva and Sister Grow, send a message home, see you in a few weeks mom, we are working hard and loving every last minute of our mission.