GREAT INCREASE ON EL ALTO

In 1945, when the first missionaries landed at El Alto, site of the La Paz airport, it was nothing but a few scant adobe dwellings. But during the 1960’s, La Paz outgrew its land area, and a large satellite population developed high above it.

When Brothers Michalec and Morris made their first perilous trip to The Yungas in 1946, they got a taste of travel in Bolivia. Now there are congregations in areas that are even more difficult to reach.

Brother Franz was accompanied by two missionaries from the first Gilead class as well as by three other members of the Brooklyn Bethel family, all of whom at his instance had parts on the program. One of these had been a missionary in Bolivia for more than nine years and very much appreciated the opportunity to visit her “foreign assignment” again.

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Charlotte Tomaschafsky (right), a missionary, witnesses to an Aymara family near Lake Titicaca. Reed boats are a common sight on the lake