Homecoming to Lima, who'dve ever thought it?

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 selfie of us with him in the meeting to his folks. They were overjoyed.


On our P-Day we went to see the Larco Museum. It is a museum of Peruvian Archeological Artifacts. It is beautifully curated and amazing! We had a great time with our friends and other couple in our mission, the Jacobsens.


We also went to a break-the-fast with the other couples in the area. There are a couple of these that serve in missions like we do, however, the majority serve in the South America Northwest Area offices. They fill roles like area doctors helping out numerous missions and so forth. It is fun to get together with these folks who have consecrated themselves to serve here. It is truly impressive to spend time with people like these.


We love this experience and our time here.


Admiring the cactus with the Jacobsens at the Larco Museum
The line for the Metro Bus by our house at rush hour
Missionaries fresh from the US, all having served somewhere there before getting visas
Massive Lima Traffic
Elder Huffman from Midland, Megan's friend's son
The new missionaries being assigned companions


Sister Matango, who spent the night in our guest bedroom
Sister Valenzuela with whom we served in Cusco, moving to Provo with her husband
Family home evening with the friends of our missionaries in the San Gabriel district
 
Julie returned with ink and Rich's brayer so that he could print a couple of lino cuts he made

Comments

  1. AnonymousJune 6, 2023 at 8:30 PM

    We loved going to the Larco museum. Truly amazing collection.

    ReplyDelete
  2. AnonymousJune 8, 2023 at 6:53 PM

    Elder Hasler , you have so many different talents! Thanks for sharing them with us!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
Last Sunday we attended three different wards with six pairs of missionaries. We are doing that to get acquainted with the assigned missionaries and the members in each ward. Wards are geographically oriented units with a bishop over each. Missionaries are from everywhere from Rockland, Idaho to Tarapoto, Perú.  We’ve had some trouble figuring out our phones. We have both a Verizon number and a Peruvian number.  In the end think we may have figured it all out… We’ll see how the next bill looks. We also had some challenges with the internet but it is the fastest service we have ever had. Two young sister missionaries have been helping us learn how to work the insurance system to get appointments for missionaries with health challenges. They are really sharp and one of them is a Peruvian so she hears all of the subtle vagaries of the language on the phone. It is tricky in Lima because they talk so fast here. We are getting the hang of it and made some appointments and paid a big bill
Read more

Sourcing a New Prosthetic Leg, Thanksgiving, New Missionaries, and a Few Dog Bites...

Image
One of the sisters who just arrived was injured in a car accident when she was 9 and requires a prosthetic leg. The one she has is from when she was 14 and so,  has outgrown it. Our president received money from a kind member in Utah to use for a case such as this. The president asked us to source a new, higher quality leg for the sister. We were pretty thrilled to participate in this and found a place that will make her a titanium limb with a carbon fiber foot. She is very excited. We were thrilled and felt blessed to have the opportunity to help her. We met with a group of the other senior missionaries serving here for Thanksgiving. Not being a national holiday, some were unable to make it. We contracted a turkey and then all pitched in with something. We met in the big conference hall in the Church Area office building. A bunch of Utah cooks, it was all pretty good! It lacked the warmth of hearth and home but was fun to get together. We received another group of 24 new missionaries.
Read more

Temple Open House and Visiting Dignitaries

Image
We have had such an amazing few weeks. We were asked as married missionary couples to participate in the new Los Olivos Temple open house. It required us to attend a couple of different sessions and is a very long way from our home. It takes a minimum of an hour to get there. It is interesting that it is in one of the sketchiest neighborhoods in Lima. By sketchy, we mean dangerous. Still, it's an area with a lot of members who need a temple close by. We loved being part of the opening days there. Over 6500 people came on the first Saturday. We get to go two more times. The most wonderful thing for us is that we got to meet people we used to know, a very long time ago. One of the counselors in the temple presidency reached out to me a couple of weeks ago. I could not place him at first but learned that he was the same who set me apart as branch president in Espinar about 25 years ago. It seems impossible that we have been involved in Peru for that many years. We also had visits from
Read more