A Day's Work

Today has been a good day.  Early this morning we went to the Mission Home to join a Zone Leaders meeting that the president has on the Friday of transfer week.  He wanted Elder Kroff to talk about finances and what is expected from Zone Leaders.  The Zone Leaders take care of paying some of the rents on some apartments, and they are given money to disburse to missionaries for medical or emergency needs.   He spoke in Spanish, and must have done a good job because he had them chuckling a time or two.  Then I talked to them about the form they send in for me to record the baptisms.  Sometimes it is unreadable and information is missing. So I talked about that.   Then we excused ourselves and went back to the office.  

I have worked for two days getting the letters and packages sorted to be delivered to the missionaries when President and Sister Argyle attend the Zone Conferences which will go forward the next two weeks -- one conference each day.  He attends eight separate conferences here in Buenos Aires.  Then he flies to the south, which is the southern tip of Argentina to the two zones down there that are assigned to this mission. The missionaries only get mail every six weeks in this mission which occurs at transfer time.  All the mail sent to the Elders and Sisters is kept in our office and taken to them during the Zone Conferences which happen right after the transfers.  So by the time it is taken to them, there is quite a stack of stuff to separate and organize.    

We decided to show some of the homes we pass daily on our way to work.  Everyone has bars on their windows and high fences and gates to secure their property.  What does that tell you?

They have small areas to park their cars and we are amazed at how they squeeze their cars into the allotted space.  Unbelievable!!!!  None of these pictures show a really cramped area, however.

This is actually a day care center for children.  It was too early to show parents dropping off their babies and toddlers, but the name is Jardin de Infantes which means Children's Garden.

Most houses are attached to the one next to it.  This is quite a nicely kept home which is on a corner.  They have a little bit of grass, but most do not.  

This one has space for two cars.  Notice that there is a business attached to each of the the walls of this home. 

Some have sliding gates that open and close with a remote, and some have to to be manually opened.  
Most fences and gates are black wrought iron, but some are painted green.  We have seen white ones too.  We haven't noticed a wide variety of colors though.  

All of the above houses are much nicer than the norm (for this area).  These people may be a little better off financially.  Most places are just flat front street entrances.  We'll take some pictures of those too sometime.

Tonight we went to a ward Family Home Evening.  The Elders arranged it and they showed one of the church's DVD's about the Crucificion and Resurrection of Christ.  Then some of the members brought home baked sweet breads and cakes.  There were large liter bottles of soda pop, but no cups.  We didn't wait around for cups to be rounded up.  But we were surely thirsty.

Great pictures could have been taken if the battery on the camera hadn't of expired.  Gurrrrr!!