Happy Father's Day! Although both of our fathers have completed their earthly missions, they will continue being our fathers through eternity, which gives Elder Magnusson and I great peace.
I am thankful that Elder Magnusson is the father of our children AND my eternal companion.
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We were in Spanish Lookout this week checking out the location for our church's youth camps to be held in August. The Mennonites established and maintain a lovely community park and huge pavilion where the youth will set up their tents (out of the rain!)
We are familiar with Golden Corral restaurant in Utah. Didn't know we'd see one right here in Spanish Lookout, Cayo District as we drove home from checking out the camp. It's even a buffet like the one in Utah.
I came across this map on the church's lds.org youth website. It reminds us that Christ's message, missionaries, and ministry is the same worldwide. In the Church's 2017 Statistical Report, it was reported that there are 421 mission worldwide. We are honored to be serving in the El Salvador/San Salvador West/Belize Mission in the Central American and the Caribbean region.
31 in Africa
22 in Aisa
35 in Brazil
7 in Canada
26 in Central America and the Caribbean
43 in Europe and Russia
34 in Mexico
18 in Oceania
22 in the Philippines
59 in South America
125 in the United States
Wikipedia also mentioned: On February 1, 2018, the LDS Church announced boundary changes that will close 19 missions and open up 5 new missions, effective July 1, 2018. This will make 407 missions of the church.
A highlight of our week was when Elder and Sister Flake and their daughter's family joined us for lunch after they flew in from the States on Friday. We were so happy to meet their family and we know their grandchildren will have a memorable time with their grandparents this week.
Our loving Father in Heaven has beautified His earth--and especially His Belize--in ways we've never seen before!
I can just see you in all these adventures - thanks for sharing!!
ReplyDeleteAhhhhh, Spanish Lookout! Whenever we needed to find something and couldn't find it anywhere else, we would head to Spanish Lookout! (One trip was to buy bed pillows and warm blankets for the missionaries who were "freezing" one January! We were there when Western Daries had just put in their "drive thru". We also found a real, honest to goodness "Health Food Store".....oh my gosh, it smelled so good when we walked in the door. Another favorite store to walk thru was the store that specialized in fabric and sewing machines. We took a picture of their cemetery because it was so different. We took pictures of the beautiful trees that grew there, too, but never of any of the people as they didn't want anyone to take their pictures. We sure loved our trips to Spanish Lookout. So happy you have discovered it and how sweet that there will be an LDS Youth Camp held there. Please give our love to folks there. John is getting better and better every day.....thank them for their prayers! I know that Prayers are what brought him back!!!! CARRY ON!!! Love, the Alicos
ReplyDeleteThank you for hosting us! We were so happy to meet the beloved Magnussons!
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