An excerpt from a recent e-mail from Karen: "We wound up with a little over $100 left after our branch Christmas party. Several of us had seen a special on TV here in Peru about a man whose young son had died in a hospital eight years ago. As he left the hospital he noticed three young street boys who had been refused treatment at the hospital because they had no means of paying. He started taking in street kids. Today he has over 600. He receives no government assistance at all. He has computers, sewing machines, carpenter tools, gardening tools, etc. to teach the kids a vocation. They have a decent roof over their heads, clean clothes, healthy food, and they attend school and get an education. He does all of this with donations. We sent the remaining $100 to him.
"I forgot to mention another small miracle in our mission. With Elder Dickson having to go home early, that left us one missionary short. That meant that President would have to come up with a mini-missionary until our next change on February 11. That is not an easy task for such a long period of time. Last week I received word that a missionary from the US, who was supposed to have come into our mission earlier, but had visa problems, will be coming in this Wednesday. We need a mini-missionary for only two days. Wow! We have had numerous 'small' miracles like that, which just tells us that God is looking out for His missions and does His part to keep them running smoothly. I could tell a dozen such stories just since we have been here.
"Okay, another small miracle. One of the elders called to see if we could help five couples they are teaching with transportation to a distant area so they could get married. The government here makes it very difficult to get married and it can be expensive. Because of this many couples just live together. The missionaries had checked and the cheapest they could find was S/360 (soles). They needed to find someone with a large van who would charge only S/160 round trip including gas. We checked and all we could come up with was S/360. Then a man came in the office, who is not a member, selling us hymnals cheaper than we can get them from the Church (don't ask). As he was leaving he stopped and turned and told us that by the way he has a large van and if anyone needed to be taken around the city he would be happy to take them. Elder Barry asked what he would charge to go to this area and he told us S/160. He came into the office about 15 minutes after the missionary called and asked us for help."
Zoo day
A post from Kate (Gail and Lynda's family) from a couple weeks ago: "We decided to get dressed in our warm clothes and go to the zoo today. A lot of the zoo shuts down in the winter (i.e. animals have to be moved out of the weather), but the animals that are still out are more active. We enjoyed watching the monkeys playing with each other and the cheetah try to eat us (he was a new addition to the zoo and seemed none to happy about it). Then the tiger and grey wolf and the cougar paced like they wanted to eat us if they could only figure out how to get out of that cage. We had warm cookies and hot chocolate and though it was a short zoo day, was fun nonetheless. We have an annual membership, so we don't mind having short zoo days."
Dean and Claudia family gathering
We had all of our family (except the two who live in the Seattle and Atlanta areas) together on Saturday, January 24, at Michael and Shauna's house in Layton to honor those with January and February birthdays. There were 25 of us present (there would have been 27, but Rebecca's husband Cade stayed home with their sick two-year-old).
New mission president
Dar Peterson, Claudia's younger brother (as in Kay's brother-in-law), has been called by the First Presidency to serve as a mission president. The following picture and biographical summary appeared in the Church News this past weekend:
"Darwin Franz Peterson, 57, and Nola Knutti Peterson, five children, Bountiful 24th Ward, Bountiful Utah Heights Stake. Brother Peterson is a Varsity Scout coach assistant and Aaronic priesthood adviser and a former counselor in a stake presidency, bishop, high councilor, stake young single adult adviser and missionary in the Argentina North Mission. Engineering project manager, QSI Corporation. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to James Andrew and LaVon Brauer Peterson.
"Sister Peterson is a former ward Relief Society, Young Women and Primary president, counselor in a stake Young Women presidency, ward Young Women adviser and stake young single adult adviser. Born in Pocatello, Idaho, to Edward and Calpurnia Dabel Knutti."
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