Scenes From a Trip to Zone Conference

During the past two weeks, the Dixons and we have made several trips south of Santiago to present at Zone Conferences for the Rancagua Mission. You will see a group of pictures that got posted before I could write about them. So let me tell you that a zone conference is a meeting of a group of missionaries in a given mission. The Rancagua Mission has 4 zones so we did 4 presentations over a period of 4 days. Bryce and I do power point presentations on stress management and communication skills. The scenes you see are pictures of the trip to the missions, and the towns we visited. I am especially fond of the picture of the 4 young missionary men together. They are all presently serving as branch presidents in local branches of the church. That is like a lay minister over a congregation. The picture of the young man with Bryce and me was our interpreter. He speaks flawless English and Spanish.

I thought you would enjoy the street scenes of the towns of San Fernando and Rancagua. Both cities are just humming with activity. We spent the night in Rancagua in a hotel room we could barely turn around in. But the bed was wonderful and it was very restful. The mission president in Rancagua is an Argentine who is an attorney in his career. He and his wife will serve as mission president for 3 years. They welcomed us warmly and we enjoyed our time with them.
The mountains are the Andes of course. Fruit was being sold everywhere. The fruit is better here than in the states. We are having a wonderful experience here in Chile.
The first picture is us getting ready for our big adventure.