Arrival!

We arrived at the Puebla Airport on May 3, 2014

President Robert Reeves (he is my youngest brother) and his wife, Janet, met us at the airport. We will be staying with them in the mission home until our apartment is finished. It needs a lot of fixing up, but looks like it will be nice. 

We accompanied the president and his wife to District interviews throughout the mission. The picture below is in Nealtican, near the volcano Popocateptl, which spews ash once in a while. There was a small earthquake while we were there.

 The Assistants, with the President, his wife, and us, met the new missionaries arriving from the Mexico MTC. The missionaries from the Provo MTC arrived another day. Their orientation was in English, thankfully, so I could learn more!! The other is a picture of the new missionaries, with their companions and the President and his wife.

The MTC (Missionary Training Center) 

We entered the Missionary Training Center on April 28 where we received training to serve as a missionary—we were taught skills and tasks to teach the lessons from “The Plan of Salvation” and “The Restoration.”  One of our “investigators” was a great surprise! We actually knew him—Noel Rentz from Rialto, California, who now lives in Provo with his wife. We were in the MTC for 5 days.

 

Tom was called as the District Leader over our little group who practiced together and were taught under the superb direction of returned missionaries.

Marilyn had two tutors from the MTC who called her on Skype twice a week to help her learn Spanish—Elders Zamorra and Groom.