SHE'S ARRIVED!!!

Dear Family of Sister Meacham,

We are pleased to inform that your daughter has arrived safe and sound and smiling to the Chile Osorno Mission.  It was a pleasure for us to greet your daughter upon her arrival and feel her desire to serve.  Enclosed is a picture that we took with her shortly after her arrival.  After a short period of orientation regarding mission procedures, customs of the country, etc., we assigned Sister Meacham to work with Sister Steele as her companion.  Your daughter's address during her time in the mission will be:

                                     Sister Paige Meacham

                        Casilla 7-0

                        Osorno, Chile

Sister Obeso and I love our missionaries and are truly happy to have the opportunity to work with Sister Meacham.  We appreciate your willingness to share her with us as she works as a missionary and ambassador for the Lord in Chile.  Sharing the gospel with these deserving children of our Father in Heaven will certainly bring great joy and satisfaction to her, and to you as well.  Thank you so much for helping her get to this point.

Please write her regularly–at least once a week.  Your love, interest, and support will be of great help to her.  Should there be any emergency or if you desire information regarding any urgent situation, please feel free to contact the Missionary Department in Salt Lake City rather than go to the expense of phoning the mission here in Chile. 

The missionary work is progressing rapidly here in southern Chile, and I hope that you will share in her exciting mission experience as Sister Meacham writes to you weekly and keeps you informed of her challenges and achievements and experiences.

Sincerely,

President Rodrigo Obeso

Chile Osorno Mission


MY FIRST AREA...PUERTO VARAS!!!!

some info about the city from Wikipedia and Google 
via Mom

Puerto Varas is a city and commune located in the southern Chilean 

The city is well known for its German traditions, its food, its fish and seafood, located on the shore of the Llanquihue Lake, one of the largest natural lakes in South America. The perfect cone of Osorno Volcano and the snowcapped peaks of Mt. Calbuco and Mt.Tronador are clearly visible from the lakefront. 

The city of Puerto Varas, also known as "La ciudad de las rosas" or “the city of roses”, was founded in 1854 by Vicente Pérez Rosales.

Puerto Varas a historical treasure of strong German features. What most distinguishes the city of Puerto Varas is its architecture, strong German influence, which resembles a people taken from a European spot.  Puerto Varas is located in a spectacular natural environment. A route that connects to a border crossing into the town of Bariloche in Argentina, offers a route along Lake Llanquihue with its landscapes framed by snowy peaks. Most of the Forest and the area are completely unspoilt and are ideal for hiking.

Puerto Varas has a rainy temperate climate. Rainfall occurs throughout the year, and it is this climate that produces the evergreen forest lakes. While in winter there are more rainy days, as well as snowfall, storms are less intense. Spring produces more intense and violent rains, but these are of shorter duration than during the winter.