For several months I have been writing a news letter for the Family History Department in SLC. The letter is published and distributed to missionaries serving around the work. This month's feature article concerns working with our young missionaries.
FOR MY NEWS LETTER:
For the past 14 months one of the amazing things about our Senior Mission has been the interaction with our younger companions. It has been a joy to work with these young men and women and see the life changing results of their hard work. To share their spirit, enthusiasm, and love of the Peruvian people has been a major highlight of our mission and life. Last year we attended an Area conference in Lima with over 900 young missionaries serving from the Central Lima Area. It was a wonderful conference and an inspiration to see so many youth serving the Lord.
Our recent move from Lima to Cusco gave us another opportunity to again work with these young men. Since we arrived in January Sister Bloomer and I have been helping move equipment and records from the old National Archives in Cusco to a new building several blocks away. A limited national budget has hindered the progress. During an interview with the President Calderon, President of the Cusco Mission, he asked how he could help with our record preservation work. He said, “ Can our missionaries help?”
During March six missionaries from the Central Cusco Area helped speed the progress at the National Archives. They work the entire day at the new Regional Archives helping organize over 100,000 civil records that covered 200 years of Peruvian History. Civil Records had to be sorted into one of thirteen Cusco Provinces, then into Districts and placed into numerical sequence. The work that the missionaries completed would have taken the present small staff two weeks.
Each weekday these missionaries are invited to lunch at President and Sister’s Carrasco home in Cusco. President Carrasco is president of one of the two stakes in Cusco, Peru.
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