Gold and Silver Winners

In August we celebrated the Olympics with a Mission Olympic competition. Five key indicators were designated for inclusion in the Olympics and we had gold, silver and bronze medalists for each of these indicators. The Gold medalists won bowling and lunch with Presidente and Hermana Bruce and a to be determined prize; the silver medalists joined in on the bowling and lunch; and the bronze medalists had fresh loaves of banana bread delivered to them. Also we had a Celestial/Gold Medal Zone, which we will host for lunch in Arica this weekend. All of our missionaries worked hard to achieve their goals and we had much success in the mission. Below are some pictures of our bowling and lunch with the gold and silver medal missionaries.

Thumbs up

Hermana Bruce trying her hand at bowling, without bowling shoes.

The best bowling style 

Presidente Bruce shows us all how it's done

The Antofagasta Bowling Alley

If Hermana Bruce concentrates, maybe she'll hit a pin.

Our Gold and Silver Medalists

Lunch at the Instititue:  Cafe Rio Pork Tacos, beans and rice.

The Gold Medal Missionaries

The Silver Medal Missionaries

Zone Conference in Antofagasta

We started our Zone Conferences this past week in Antofagasta. The Antofagasta, La Portada and Calama zones participated. Luckily for these missionaries we have the only Dominoes Pizza in the mission here in Anto so there was plenty of pizza for everyone.

Below are pictures from our lunch.  What a wonderful group of missionaries we have in these three zones.

Gathering for a group picture after lunch.

The missionaries from the Antofagasta, La Portada and Calama Zones.

May Viejos Dinner

In May we said farewell to four stalwart missionaries. We hosted them for dinner at the Mission Home and then had a wonderful testimony meeting with them. It gets harder and harder to say good-bye. It will never be easy.