Double the Food, Double the Fun

There are 12 Elders working in the office now because I am training new Assistants and new Secretaries for the Argentina Posadas Mission which will begin on July 1st. I have not told the Elders which ones will be going where yet because I want them to work together as one team during their training. I also decided that another good activity to bring them together would be a little hamburger barbecue at the Mission Home together with some basketball shooting, baseball throwing, football tossing and the infamous ping pong tournament. A few years ago, Diane and I copied Chef Bobby Flay's secret hamburger recipe and improved it, so I promised the missionaries "Las Mejores Hamburguesas del Mundo!"



I got the coals just right, let them cook and at the exact moment of readiness served them up...



With the best Argentine beef available ("carne molida especial" de la carniceria Santina), fresh hamburger buns, mustard, ketchup, lettuce and tomato, it was a rich mouthful...(Elder Child was the only purist who had just hamburger, all the others wanted the cheddar cheese burger)...



And they were pretty satisfied customers...they each had two of those big burgers!



I did not do all of the cooking...Diane had carrot sticks and ranch dressing (home made), potato chips and of course her M&M brownies ready for dessert...



I love this picture because even though Diane is in the background and is not eating, she has the biggest smile. Because making her missionaries happy is what makes her happy! After the food, the serious work of the ping pong tournament began. Contestants came from Paraguay, Spain, Argentina and the United States. The finals came down to Elder Garcia from Spain against Elder Acuña from Paraguay...



And the winner was...



Elder Acuña from Paraguay...but we all were winners today!