Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord: Argentina Cordoba Mission

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Argentina Cordoba Mission

Mission Website(s)

LDS Mission Network (John Ahlander)

CCM Argentina

Pictures

LDS Mission Network

Dear Elder--Elder Tyler Grange

Dear Elder--Elder John Lineback

Dear Elder--Elder Joseph Pastuer

Dear Elder--Elder Jacob Holland

MissionSite Net--Sister Jenna Lindsay

MissionSite Net--Elder Kelton Maw

MissionSite.Net--Elder Devon Nitta

MissionSite Net--Elder Tyson Young 2006-2008

President(s)

LDS Mission Network

"New Mission Presidents Begin Service," (Alfredo L. Salas) Ensign [July 2010].

"New Mission Presidents," (Alfredo L. Salas) Church News [Saturday, 20 March 2010].

"Mission President Assignments for 2010," (new mission president Alfredo L. Sala, former mission prresident Stephen L Olsen) Church News [Saturday, 13 February 2010].

Personal History of H. Clay Gorton (President Argentina North Mission)

“New Mission Presidents Now in Place Worldwide,” Ensign, July 2007, 77–78 [Stephen L. Olsen]

"New Mission Presidents Receive Assignments," (new mission president Stephen L Olsen, former mission president Ronald D. Gardner), Church News [Saturday, 3 March 2007].

“New Mission Presidents Begin Service,” Ensign, July 2004, 74–75

"New Mission Presidents," (Ronald Dale Gardner) Church News [Saturday, 27 March 2004].

"New and Returning Mission Presidents," (new mission president Ronald D. Gardner, former mission president Steven D. Ogden) Church News [Saturday, 6 March 2004].

"New Area Authority Seventies," (former mission president Carlos R. Fernandez) Church News [Saturday, 20 April 2002].

"New and Returning Mission President," (new mission president Steven Dale Ogden, former mission president Enrique Manuel Garcia) Church News [Saturday, 9 March 2002].

"New Mission Presidents," (Oscar A. Abrea) Church News [Saturday, 27 April 1996].

"New and Returning Mission Presidents," (new mission president Oscar Abrea, former mission president Craig A. Hill) Church News [Saturday, 16 March 1996].

"Worldwide Missions; 122 Leaders Assigned," (new mission president Tomas F. Lindheimer, former mission president Gary Lunt) Church News [Saturday, 31 March 1990].

“Appointments,” Ensign, May 1987, 109–11 [Tomas F. Lindheimer]

“Four New Missions Created, New Mission Presidents Called,” Ensign, July 1984, 76–77

“Church Calls New Mission Presidents,” Ensign, May 1981, 109–10

“New Mission Presidents and Their Assignments Noted,” Ensign, June 1978, 78 [Hugo R. Gazzoni]

Blog(s)

Elder Ross Blaszczyk 2007-2009

Moral of the Story (Sister Noralin Ellsworth, 2009-2010)

Elder Andy Glanzer 2009-2011

The Best Two Years of Our Lives (Elder Mike Kleinman, 2007-2009)

Levi's Quest in Argentina (Elder Levi Lamoreaux) 2009-2011

Elder Ian Mahuika 2007-2009

Elder Austin Dearen Maxwell 2009-2011

Sister Jami Alison Pond 2010-2012

Sister Cara Shumway 2008-2010

Elder Eric Timothy 2009-2010

Cordoba Argentina Temple

Temple Study--Cordoba Argentina Temple

“New Mission Presidents Now in Place Worldwide,” (Stephen L. Olsen) Ensign, July 2007, 77–78

Jorge Luis del Castillo, “Lessons from the Old Testament: My Father’s Last Words,” Ensign, Dec 2006, 52–53

Jorge Detlefsen, “My Personal Hero,” (Oscar Italia) Ensign, Mar. 2006, 68–69

"New Mission Presidents," (former missionary Horacio Jorge Nieto called as mission president in Columbia Cali Mission) Church News [Saturday, 19 March 2005].

Obituary Cynthia Mallory Gardner (Deseret News, 15 December 2004; served with husband Levier 1984-1986)

“New Mission Presidents Begin Service,” (Ronald R. Gardner) Ensign, July 2004, 74–75

Scott R. Lloyd, "Elder Andrew W. Peterson Eulogized," Church News [Saturday, 10 January 2004].

Merrill J. Bateman, Because He First Loved Us, BYU Speeches (Melisa Bateman)

Juan Aldo Leone, “A Very Special Tablecloth,” Liahona, Feb. 2003, 45–46

"New Mission Presidents," (former mission counselor Rueben Spitale called as mission president) Church News [Saturday, 2 March 2002].

"New Mission Presidents," (former missionary Kurt Milo Alexander called as mission president Mexico Torreon Mission) Church News [Saturday, 9 February 2002].

“The Bulletin Board: Sports Heroes,” (Elder Creighton Lowe) New Era, Jul 1999, 38

Juan Aldo Leone, “‘A Joyful Meeting’,” (counselor in mission presidency) Liahona, Feb 1997, 48

"Fulfillment of Prayer Easter Season Promised," (former missionary member of Quorum of Seventy Elder Andrew W. Peterson) Church News [Saturday, 8 April 1995].

Greg Hill," The Lord Will Guide Those Who Trust Him, Listen to the Prophet," (former missionary Andrew W. Peterson called to Quorum of the Seventy) Church News [Saturday, 22 October 1994].

“Nine Missions Announced, Four Lands Dedicated in the Americas,” (Argentina Mendoza created from Cordoba Mission) Ensign, June 1990, 77–78

Elayne Wells, "Personal Interest was the Spark for Reactivation," Church News [Saturday, 2 December 1989].

"Lesson is sung, enjoyed," Church News [Saturday, 9 July 1988].

“Seven New Missions Created,” (Argentina Salta Mission created from Cordoba Mission) Ensign, Mar. 1988, 76

“Appointments,” (Tomas S. Linderheimer called as president) Ensign, May 1987, 109–11

JoAnn Jolley, “Elder Richard G. Scott: Putting God and Family First,” Ensign, Jan 1985, 34

“Four New Missions Created, (Carlos R. Fernandez) New Mission Presidents Called,” Ensign, July 1984, 76–77

“New Mission Presidents and Their Assignments Noted,” (mission president Angel Abrea)
Ensign, June 1978, 78

Spencer W. Kimball, “Pass the Word Along,” New Era, Oct 1977, 4

“Church to Divide Mission in Korea,” (Omar Righi called as mission president) Ensign, July 1975, 76

“Elder Robert Dean Hales Assistant to the Council of the Twelve,” Ensign, May 1975, 117–18

“The Church in Argentina,” Ensign, Feb 1975, 21

4 comments:

Dr. B said...: In Sheri L. Dew, Go Forward with Faith: The Biography of Gordon B. Hinckley it describes a visit that Elder and sister Hinckley made in 1960s:

There was little time, however, to look seriously for property. His premonition during a spring trip to Asia that it might be his last for some time proved well founded, for on June 1, 1968, Elder Hinckley was released from his supervisory role over the Orient and assigned to oversee the work in South America. Clark was serving in Argentina, so Elder and Sister Hinckley regularly heard their son's reports about the work there, but he had visited that continent only once. He knew there was one stake each in São Paulo, Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Montevideo, Uruguay. Beyond that, he knew little about the huge continent that stretched from Caracas in the north to Cape Horn at its southernmost tip.

Elder Hinckley accepted the assignment with mixed emotions. He was eager to become acquainted with a new part of the world, but he had come to feel at home in Asia. On his first trip there he had struggled even to distinguish the Oriental Saints one from another. But over the years they had become his cherished friends. He had borne testimony to groups large and small, in makeshift chapels and in Quonset huts with the sound of gunfire punctuating the night air. He had endured the sweltering heat of Manila, the monsoon rains of Korea, and the bitter cold of northern Japan. Nonetheless, it was difficult to realize that it might be some time before he flew west over the Pacific again.

But for now, he turned his attention to South America. His brief experience there suggested that though the Church was still small, this continent held the promise of a fruitful missionary harvest. In late November 1968, Elder and Sister Hinckley left for their first tour of South America, arriving in São Paulo on Marjorie's birthday. "I told long ago I would take her somewhere on her birthday," Elder Hinckley quipped in his journal. "South America is quite somewhere."

They stepped off the plane to find a beautiful day with flowers in bloom all around. While Salt Lake City was moving toward the deep night of winter, Brazil was basking in spring. Elder Hinckley immediately attended to his first order of business-dividing the one São Paulo stake into two. It became quickly apparent that a young bishop, Helio da Rocha Camargo, was to be the stake president, but Elder Hinckley was concerned about some unique challenges in organizing this particular stake. After hours of interviews he returned to the hotel and, joining a large number of mosquitoes that had taken up residence there, put his head on the pillow and fell asleep. His slumber was fitful, however, and by 2:00 A.M. he was wide awake and agonizing over the reorganization. "The problem was the most complex of any I have ever faced in the creation of a new stake," he wrote. "But out of these thoughts in the middle of the night came some rather clear ideas as to how it should be handled." The next day, nearly 1700 Saints crowded into the stake center as Elder Hinckley created the São Paulo East Stake. This meeting was believed to be the largest congregation of Latter-day Saints ever assembled up to that time in South America.

From São Paulo the Hinckleys flew to Rio de Janeiro, where he spent the better part of two days, from early morning until past ten o'clock at night, in meetings with the ten mission presidents from South America. After the third day in Rio, the pace and exhaustion caught up with him: "I have picked up something. My resistance seems so low. I got up wheezing and asthmatic this morning. I felt so weak I could scarcely get to our meetings." Later that day a doctor detected the beginnings of pneumonia and prescribed medication that left him feeling "as dopey as an old owl."

Nonetheless, he and Sister Hinckley pressed on to Cordoba, Argentina. They arrived on Thanksgiving Day and were delighted to be reunited with their son Clark, who was serving in the North Argentine Mission under President Richard G. Scott. Though Clark was anxious to see his parents, the situation was awkward for him, as Elder Hinckley recorded: "He was placed in a difficult position because we were greeted with fanfare, and I think he felt a little embarrassed. When we got to the mission office we visited with him for a little while, and he loosened up to his own good happy self again." From Clark's point of view it was "spectacular to have a General Authority come to Argentina, and it was a bonus to have him be my father. I had never been in a missionary setting with Dad, and I soon found that I was in for a real experience."

Elder Hinckley quickly learned that travel in Argentina would also be quite an experience. Domestic flights were "about as dependable as the weather in Chicago," as he described it. Consequently, the Hinckleys frequently ended up driving with President Scott all night on rough, winding roads. One morning they were to have flown to Tucuman in northern Argentina, but the flight was suddenly canceled, so they began the 700-kilometer drive around noon and arrived eight hours later to find a chapel full of Saints waiting for Elder Hinckley to dedicate their building. After the meeting he shook hands and signed his autograph hundreds of times-a practice he did not relish. He recognized, however, that the gesture made an important statement to those who requested it. When the local leaders asked if he would then hold a fireside for the youth, Elder Hinckley felt the hour was too late. But he changed his mind after being assured that this was customary in Argentina, where early-afternoon siestas encouraged people to stay up late. He found that this pattern was typical, and often he didn't conclude meetings, firesides, and even interviews with local television stations until nearly midnight.

On several occasions Clark was pressed into service translating for his mother. "Mother started telling pioneer stories and I couldn't think of the words for covered wagons," he remembered later. "But it was quite an experience to translate for her as she bore her testimony to the missionaries and members who were my friends." And he, along with his fellow missionaries, was interviewed personally by Elder Hinckley, who found the mission under President Scott to have excellent leadership. For his part, President Scott relished his time with Elder Hinckley. "As we drove from city to city, he used the time to teach me," he related. "I learned about doctrine, about how to interview missionaries when they had specific problems, about Church government and what counsel to give in various situations. He built me and made me feel that I had the capacity to do what was required of me."

After five days in Argentina, the Hinckleys rode to the airport with President Scott and Clark. Marjorie became tearful as she said good-bye to her younger son, but Elder Hinckley was more pragmatic: "I felt all right about leaving him there and had practically no pangs of emotion. He seemed to be happy, and I think he was a little glad to get us out of the way so that he could do his part without feeling some embarrassment. I am sure that we cramped his style a little while we have been here." Marjorie now understood why it was unwise for parents to visit children serving in the field.

At the conclusion of their visit, Elder Hinckley recorded: "It has been a quick tour, two weeks in length, which is just about right. I can handle this sort of thing; but when it stretches out to a month or two months, as I have taken in the Orient, I come back much too tired. I know that I am getting older because of the weariness that I feel while traveling and interviewing hundreds of missionaries."

How different South America was from the Orient! But the people, despite vast cultural differences, were similar in their response to the message of Jesus Christ and in their desire to do good. Elder Hinckley was optimistic about the progress of the Church in South America, which appeared to be poised on the brink of explosive growth. He also felt that the future of the Church globally had never been better. In a subsequent general conference address he stated with confidence: "I stand here today as an optimist concerning the work of the Lord. I cannot believe that God has established his work in the earth to have it fail. I cannot believe that it is getting weaker. I know that it is getting stronger. I realize, of course, that we are beset with many tragic problems. . . . I have seen a good deal of this earth. I have seen its rot and smelled its filth. I have been in areas where war rages and hate smolders in the hearts of people. . . . I have watched with alarm the crumbling morals of our society. And yet I am an optimist. I have a simple and solemn faith that right will triumph and that truth will prevail."; October 27, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Dr. B said...: Robert G. Dyer, a former missionary was made a mission. In the Church News (Saturday, 26 April 1997)we read:

• Robert G. Dyer, 50, Texas McAllen Mission; Cardiff 1st Ward, Del Mar California Stake; stake president; former high councilor, bishop's counselor, branch president, Young Men president, high priests group leader, Sunday School teacher, and missionary in the Cordoba Argentina Mission; attorney; received bachelor's degree in chemistry and juris doctorate from BYU; born in Washington, D.C., to James Glenn and Nona Richards Dyer; married Lynda Hancock, 10 children. She is a Sunday School teacher; former Primary president, Young Women president's counselor, Primary chorister, and Laurel adviser; received bachelor's degree in elementary education from BYU; born in La Jolla, Calif., to Lynn Young and Ada Bell Gifford Hiner Hancock.; October 27, 2008 at 11:08 PM
Dr. B said...: Francis M. Gibbons in Spencer W. Kimball: Resolute Disciple Prophet of God. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1995 wrote:

Crossing the Andes to Argentina, the Kimballs found the weather more pleasant. At Mendoza, they were met by President Richard G. Scott, a future member of the Twelve, who was the president of the mission headquartered in Córdoba, Argentina. President Scott had been directing the work of several missionaries stationed in southern Bolivia. Since Elder Kimball was anxious to visit the area, he and Sister Kimball, the Scotts, and others drove north from Córdoba toward the border, stopping at Salta. There they purchased cloth, seeds, thread, wool, soap, first-aid supplies, medicines, and other items to take to the Bolivian members. Before crossing the border at Villazon, they parked the mission cars and rented a Jeep for the trip to Quiriza, their destination to the north. With eight passengers, their gear, and the items purchased at Salta, the Jeep was crowded. The winding, primitive road, portions of which lay in the riverbed, took them past several small Bolivian villages and occasional herds of llamas. Elder Kimball noted that President Scott frequently downshifted the Jeep, and he learned later that this was the vehicle's main braking mechanism, the conventional brakes being practically gone. Arriving in Quiriza, Elder Kimball was astonished to see painted on the face of a sheer cliff in bold letters "Bienvenidos Elder Kimball." He learned that a resourceful missionary had attached a paintbrush to a long pole in order to reach the cliff face.

Following a meeting in Quiriza, Elder Kimball saw two men standing near the doorway, quietly waiting for him to exit. When he reached the door, they approached him hesitantly, extending toward him a box they held. It contained a dozen small eggs, a gift of great economic value to them. To Elder Kimball it was, by his own admission, a gift that meant as much to him as almost any other gift he had received. He was deeply touched, not only by the significance of the gift but also by the humble, loving attitude of the men who gave it to him.

Before Elder Kimball left the area, a ground-breaking ceremony was held for a small chapel to be constructed. Elder Kimball lifted the first shovelful of dirt, followed by President Scott and several of the local priesthood leaders. Then one of the men waved to the women, who had been standing aside with their children, to come participate. They all came running, some carrying their babies, and each one in turn, women and children alike, lifted some dirt in celebration of the great event.

Elder Kimball returned to South America in November. It was his last tour as the area supervisor.; October 31, 2008 at 12:46 PM
Anonymous said...: My late husband served in the North Argentina mission under pres. scott and pres Gordon. I am looking for an elder that served with him . His name is Elder John Clarke. I have some trinkets that belong to him. Any help finding him is appreciated. Irene B Moore; December 5, 2012 at 5:25 PM