Mission President's Seminar in Mexico City

We attended our third and final Mission President's Seminar a few days ago. It was great to see the other couples that are from our "generation" and will finish at the same time we do next year. From left to right, Pres. & Hna Cardenas, serving in Merida; Pres. & Hna Mendoza, serving in Monterrey East; Pres & Hna Fuentes, Mexico City West; Pres. & Hna Flores, in Chihuahua; Pres. & Hna Johnstun, Culiacan, Pres. & Hna Cox, serving in Leon, and us :)

This our new Area Presidency along with Elder and Sister Christofferson. The President is Elder Daniel Johnson and his wife, Elder Benjamin De Hoyos as first counselor, and also his wife, and Elder and Sister Tenorio, he is still the second counselor, he was in the previous Area Presidency as well. Elder Gonzalez of the Presidency of the Seventy is here, too.

This is Elder Walter Gonzalez of the Presidency of the Seventy. He is from Uruguay, it was so fun to hear his beautiful accent! He is a very, very nice man.

We got to have a picture with Elder and Sis. Christofferson when we were at the Visitor's Center. The whole group attended the temple together and it was an awesome experience. We are so blessed to associate with these wonderful people.

We are supposed to be getting a digital copy of the picture that was taken with the whole group - all the mission presidents and their wives from Mexico (21), the Area Presidency, Christoffersons, and Elder Gonzalez. When we receive the picture, I'll post it.

Baptisms in Uruguay :)

Ryan sent these two pictures today.

They are his first two baptisms. This is the baptism of Andrea

(I'm not sure which one is Andrea though)

And this is Sebastian.

Also his first companion and trainer, Elder Cardona from Honduras.

He looks happy and healthy. He's already been out for one month!

We also got news today that anyone can send an email to the mission office, they will print it off and deliver it to Ryan. This is a new thing for their mission, and should be a really good thing. Since Ryan only is allowed to email 30 minutes per week, this seems like a good thing for him to be able to read the letters separately, and then write his own email during the 30 minutes.

Put his full name (Elder Ryan Bulloch :) in the subject line, write the email, and then send it to this address:

urumontemission@gmail.com

I have put this email address over on the

right side of the blog so it is easy to find.

Kidney Stone

Our plans for this past week didn't really turn out the way we thought they would. We had scheduled 3 days of Zone Conferences and interviews, but on day 2 - during the afternoon interviews - a new kidney stone made it's presence known.

Wednesday Russ was interviewing Elder Budge, a brand new missionary from Utah, and suddenly he felt a familiar pain, just like two years ago when he had his first experience with this. He tried to continue with the interview, but the pain was just too much. He had the Zone Leaders, Elder Flores and Elder Winters give him a blessing, and off we went to the hospital.

Thursday Dr. Torres did the surgery and retrieved the stone that was causing so much pain and trouble:


It's very tiny compared to the penny - but I guess it's pretty big for a kidney stone. Not fun.

Russ came home from the hospital on Friday and is doing MUCH better now. Dr. Torres wants to analyze the stone and find out what causes Russ' body to form them. Hopefully he can avoid having another one.

MTC in Argentina

Well, we didn't get an email from Ryan today (so far) - but I checked on the Argentina MTC website and they posted the picture of his group. He's on the end of the third row. Hopefully we'll get an email later today or tomorrow.