International Travel

There is a saying I have taught my children, "Always be prepared for something to go wrong during international travel."

During our flight yesterday from Salt Lake City to Dallas the flight attendant informed us that our connecting flight to Buenos Aires had been cancelled due to volcanic ash in the atmosphere. A volcano in Chile has been erupting. So, we are in Dallas until other plans can be made to get us to Argentina.

The adventure has begun.

Chau for now...

In a few hours we leave Salt Lake City for Buenos Aires. We arrive at 7:35 am tuesday. The past week has been a whirlwind as we have said many goodbyes and hellos. Our experience at the Missionary Training Center was great and has us excited to begin the work. We were able to spend some time with 15 new missionaries who will arrive in Resistencia on July 25th. That really helped make this all real.

Thank you everyone who has supported us and helped prepare us. It is now time to button the top button, straighten the tie, put on the suit coat and get to work.

Starting the Mission

The Heyman family with Elder Oaks and Elder Costa.

Look who is official!

    We can't wait to hear what exciting things Argentina has in store for the new Presidente Heyman y Hermana Heyman!

-posted by Jennifer

Mission Map

Here's a map of the mission. If you want to enlarge it you can click on the image.

Our Schedule

Yesterday we had a little family farewell at our home.  My sister Barbara surprised us with some of these cookies....

We leave Arizona June 16th.  We attend the New Mission Presidents' Seminar in Provo from June 22-26th.  June 27th we leave Salt Lake City for Buenos Aires.  We meet with the Area Presidency in Buenos Aires June 28th-29th.  We fly to Resistencia on June 30th.   Then the real fun begins.....

Missions Make Leaders

An interesting article in Bloomberg News:

"God's MBAs: Why Mormon Missions Produce Leaders"

Read it here.

Church News

It's official! The following was published in the Church News this week:

You can also view it here. Just scroll down and you'll see it at the end!

The Ox was in the Mire

There are somethings you just don't do on a Sunday unless the "Ox is in the mire". This Sunday were were in Clorinda, Formosa for District Conference. I parked the HiLux here...



Diane didn't like the parking spot because it was "blocking" the gate. I told her it was fine, no one would be using the gate, so while I was in a meeting she moved it to here...



That's right, she sunk the HiLux..



When I saw her in between meetings, all she said was, "Boy, you are going to be mad at me!"



If you know anything about Heyman body language you have a pretty good idea of how I felt about it all...



After the meetings, the fun started...











Here's what the Ox looked like when it was out of the mire...









Twenty years from now, they will be talking about this District Conference in Clorinda...but they won't be reminiscing about the talks we gave...