Poulsen Mission

It has been another adventure as we travel throughout the mission doing auditions. We auditioned 104 missionaries and only selected 24. It was such a joy to be with them.  The news has traveled fast that the audition was way too hard. I'll just display a few of our missionaries that tried out.  

Elder Poulsen and I are growing to love Sister Monica Val.  She was a television artist in Chile in years past along with her husband. She joined the Church after her husbands death.  She has had a hard and difficult life but she is  a jewel in the rough and we sure love her. 

An interesting effect from taking a picture early one morning trying to catch a Sunrise. A UFO snuck up on us.  

I feel like I am not staying on top of my Blog like I wanted to, so I'm going to try to UPDATE.  So here is a lot of time passing.  A couple of weeks past we said goodbye to 3 of our missionaries who were sent home a little before time because of health reasons. I was able to sit in counsel with President Diaz concerning these missionaries and felt the Lords guiding hand concerning each one. The Lord loves His missionaries and wants to help them grow and also safeguards them when they have health concerns. This is President and Sister Diaz with Hermana Prates from Brazil, and below there are some pictures of Hermana Cook with her Dad and Seth and I.  We love these dear sisters. Elder Padilla wasn't in the shots because He will be coming back.