Ready to Embark, What are Church Investment Farms Anyway

Ready or not, here we go!
We heard good news yesterday. Demetrius reports that our visas are complete except for one final signature and that should be completed by this morning August 10th. Therefore, our flight can will be this Friday August 12th leaving after lunch and arriving in Argentina Saturday morning. Yuck! Who can sleep on an airplane. Oh well, it beats weeks or months of traveling by boat or covered wagon. We should know better than to complain.

So, our bags are packed and we're ready to go other than the last minute toothbrush type items. We've had to be creative with the packing since we're bringing piano keyboards to help interested people learn to play the piano. We're also bringing our ukuleles since we should have time to finish what we started in Nauvoo. Thanks Aunt Mary for the ukulele lessons. Now we need lots of practice.

Check out how we've managed to get 18 months of supplies on an airplane:



Ukuleles and piano stands are in this box

 
Key boards are in these disguised boxes.


We spray painted the piano boxes so as not to draw too much attention.

Impressive????

(Well perhaps not... you try it and give us some tips. :)  )

Church Investment Farms
Remember I mentioned our training in our last post that was held in Salt Lake City the middle of July? Well, we learned a great deal about church investment farms during the training. We were blown away with the efficiency, magnitude, and potential for good that these farms can and are accomplishing. The primary purpose of these farms is for humanitarian aide. Literally hundreds of thousands of acres of prime farm land throughout the world are being used to provide food and money to send to struggling communities. Once again, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is doing it big.

Along with land of course, good equipment and capable employees are needed. Our responsibility, small as it may seem, is to support the workers and surrounding community, helping to provide a good environment for their families and enriching their lives in whatever ways we can.

Referring to the story posted last week--I'd like to say to Mr Consulate for Argentina, "No sir, we will not be working in Argentina but rather 'playing' to our hearts content. We will not be taking anyone's job away from them, not taking even a dime for our efforts, having nothing to proselyte whatsoever, but freely living and loving the Argentine people perhaps for a good portion of our retire life."

So excited!