I Hope They Send Me on a Mission ... so I can have my Own Apartment

When you send your children out on missions you always hope that they are healthy and safe.  The Mission Presidents do all they can to make sure the missionaries are safe,

but the conditions are often something less than glamorous.  The Gospel is being carried to ALL people and some of them are very poor by North American standards.

 

Julie went out with a Mission President's wife to inspect some of the missionary apartments.

Each missionary gets a desk, a bed, some kind of closet and a dresser to share.

Not every missionary is "man" enough to deal with this bedroom.

With a room like this a missionary might be glad to be on the streets all day.

even with all the dust.  Luckily it NEVER rains in Lima...can you imagine the mud?

I'll bet the senior companion gets the blue bed.  It looks bigger.

This is one of the reasons why the missionaries don't drive.

All of the modern amenities...

in minature.

Everyday is Wash Day somewhere in the world.

The front door leads to...

just the basics...

nothing fancy.

Not much to come home to.

Such a regal entrance.

Neighborhoods that a missionary can love and talk about the rest of their lives.

This staircase to the Sister Missionaries apartment...

also accesses the neighbor's construction storage yard.

You can tell a "sisters" apartment by the stuffed animals on the bed...

and the fact that they are made better than the Elders can do.

You can tell that laundry is not a "private" thing.

Home...Sweet Home