Thanksgiving at Mimi's Cafe

We went to Mimi's Cafe for Thanksgiving this year--all the yum and none of the clean up!

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas...

Well, this is the first time I've ever done this, but I got the tree up (thanks to Dee's and Bryan's help) and decorated before Thanksgiving. I know it's a bit early, but it's been a lot of fun to have at least the biggest part of decorating done. Here's what it looks like:

Elder Larry Gunther and Sister Marie Gunther and us.

The Gunthers were here for our zone conference today. We took them to Walmart following the conference.

Elder Godoy, Elder Jensen and us.

These are out current zone leaders. Elder Jensen believes he will be transferred next Wednesday as he has been here for several months.

Elder Ashworth, Elder Jensen and us.

These two elders were our original zone leaders. Elder Ashworth was sent to Bella Vista in the Goya disrict to be the branch president there. He was back in Corrientes for our zone conference.

Elder Andrews, an assistant to the president and us.

Elder Andrew's mother works as a graphic artist for Deseret Book

Monday, November 8, 2010

Cattle grazing in the field (if you squint hard you can see them) between Formosa and Resistencia

Monday, November8, 2010

A variation of the landscape between Formosa and Resistencia

Monday, November 8, 2010

Taken between Formosa and Resistencia.

Formosa is about 135 miles North of Resistencia. The vast majority of the landscape is very similar, varying in the trees and bushes one can see. There are literally hundreds of thousands of acres, if not millions of acres of undeveloped land along this route, spotted by an occasional farm house or cattle feeding in the fields. The grasses are so high that quite often they come up to the belly of the cows.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Elder Guillermo Delcoro, Elder and Sister Larson, Elder Diaz, Area Authority Seventy

Taken at a zone conference in Formosa, Argentina

Guillermo is the stepson of Ramon Amado Olivera. He is serving a mini-mission in Formosa.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Elder and Sister Larson with

Ramon Amado Olivera from the

Mendoza al Sur Branch,

Corrientes, Argentina

Jumpin' Jacks

Max invited us to join him at Jumpin' Jacks to celebrate his birthday. The kids were in heaven bouncing around. Afterward, we went to Dairy Queen to get some ice cream cones.

Here are some videos of the night. Two things to look for: 1. Blake starts out legs first on a big slide and quickly ends up head first and 2. Baby Reid tasting some ice cream--you'll love his reactions but later, he tossed it all up. Jessica wonders if he's lactose intollerant, so she may have to wait until he's two to introduce him to dairy products.

Sorry for the shaky footage on some of them. Let's just say I'm not in the running for videographer of the year.

There is a colony of black ants that has a nest in our side yard. We frequently see them coming from the parking strip outside of our house carrying leaves with them to store for their food. They are especially busy before a rain storm comes. They are a good warning sign to be prepared for the rain. They are also a great example of industriousness. Under each green leaf is one single ant carrying what has to be close to an equivalent of its own weight. It doesn't stop. There are always other ants ahead of, behind, or to the side of the one carrying the leaf. Perhaps they are cheerleaders but we like to think they are typical laborors here in Corrientes: one working and a few gathered around watching.

Family and friends of Italo, Brisa and Areceli

Samira, your mother and Barbarita

Samira, your mother and Barbarita

Your mother invited Barbarita Obregon to a baptism the elders had on Saturday, October 30, 2010. She enjoyed the baptism and will hopefully go to Church with us this Sunday.

Trucks come and pick up the normal garbage during the night but they won't pick up clippings and tree branches, etc. Workers with horses come and pick up the clippings and limbs and depend on the people who leave the clippings and limbs to pay them for cleaning up the mess. This young man made three trips because there was so many clippings and the owner of the house dissed him. We had three bags of leaves and clippings that we gave him and gave him 6 pesos. He had asked for 5 pesos.