Our Work here in Public Affairs.

What I (Kathy) do here is keep the Mormon Newsroom for Guatemala and several Central American countries up to date with the most recent news.  The system program to update the news is called Corus 1 and it is the same technology as many online news rooms has such as Yahoo or other major news online programs.  This is a picture of my computer screen of Sala de Prensa where I was posting a new story regarding the announcement of a new General Sunday School President for the Church. Each country has a newsroom page and can be accessed by going to LDS.ORG and put in the search field Mormon newsroom.
Elder Burningham is involved with making presentations to Stakes here in Guatemala City regarding Public Affairs.  Would you believe there are 22 Stakes here?  We first meet with the Stake President and High Councilmen to inform them about Public Affairs and that they should have a committee organized as soon as possible. Then we return on another date to do training to the called committee.  Each stake has news to share that shows service and good will in the community. We are having them submit their pictures and stories to us so that we can publish it on Newsroom.

Our Sundays will be taken up in training and then we attend a Sacrament Meeting at a Ward Building or Stake Center where we are at.  Unlike our Philippine Service we are not assigned a branch or ward.  When we do not have a training scheduled we attend a ward that is located on the Guatemala Temple grounds which has some English spoken as well as Spanish.  A few people speak English here in our office but mostly they speak Spanish.  Elder B gets along quite well.....then I (Sister B) just do the best I can.  Everyone is quite friendly and willing to help.

Next week we will be traveling to Honduras where we will see some ruins of Book of Mormon times.  Can´t wait to go.