The Haslers in the Peru, Limatambo Mission 2023-

  What a great week we have had! Helping out with the Multi-Zone Conferences is always wonderful and we love seeing all the missionaries and visiting with them. The Conferences themselves were inspiring and uplifting and we’re so impressed with the great work these young elders and sisters do. We taught our English Connect 1 class and Rich helped an elder struggling with his Spanish. We also made bank payments to renew missionary visas and paid for some medical needs. We made medical appointments that were needed and called and visited with missionaries that have been to the doctor or have been sick recently. It is feast or famine, we went days with no medical needs. Then, in one day we had six… We attended the temple and saw a dear friend there from our time serving in Cusco. That was super fun.  A sister whom Rich interviewed a while back asked the sisters who taught her if Rich would baptize her. We were honored to attend her baptism Saturday evening in Vista Alegre. She was so swee

We took our mission leaders's son’s advice and went with the Jacobsens to the Larco Museum on Monday. We loved it and were amazed by the artifacts we saw and the history we learned. We’ve been dealing with an Elder’s package that his parents sent from the US. It has contacts, contact solution and Tylenol. Because of the Tylenol, it has to be treated as medical supplies and requires a Doctor's sign off, a health department approval and a tax commission approval before it can get out of customs prison. It has taken weeks but we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel as it were. The highlight of the week was the visit from Elder Neil Andersen of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of the church. He came with other dignitaries. In all it was an extraordinary meeting with missionaries from all of the 6 Lima missions, well over 1000 missionaries. We sought out our niece’s daughter who is serving in the Lima South mission. We took some pictures and had a fun chat with her.  To

This was a big week for getting things ready to receive about 15 new missionaries. Rich helped purchase and stock things for new missionary apartments. He helped get new missionaries in on this transfer and helped send them home. The biggest news was that Julie got back from Midland. She loved her time there with the grand babies. Her travel back was brutal but she is here and adjusting.  We had a sweet sister from Otavalo, Ecuador come in at midnight on Friday. She spent the night with us since we have a set of bunkbeds in the spare room just for this purpose. Hermana Matango will be a great missionary. Her parents went from siccing dogs on the missionaries to being baptized and sealed with their family in the temple. They are a steadfast family now. A miraculous and marvelous conversion story.  We went out with a couple of missionaries to teach. One of the missionaries is the son of friends we knew in Arequipa. It was wonderful to see his reaction when we told him. We sent the