Saturday, May 6, 2017

As We Conclude our Orem Mission

February 17, 2017
Some of the Great Senior Couples We Served With.
Helping with the Open House.

Our MTC District and teachers.
Serving a wedding.
The Map at the MTC
The Fourth of July Parade
Young Missionaries on the 4th of July
The young missionaries sang a song for the Senior Couples that
served at their Christmas Party.
Young Missionary Christmas Party
I loved working with these good young men as well as
others in Missionary Prep.
We enjoyed October Conference.
Clowning Around on a church cleaning assignment.
The morning we left for the MTC.
                                                               Lunch with the Young Missionaries.


How can we sum up 18 months of service in our Mission serving from home? It isn't possible to capture in pictures most of what we did. We gave lots of service, attended many meetings and made many, many visits. I wish we could say that everything we did was super successful, but I know we made a difference in people's lives. I also know that we were blessed for our service. We spent hours studying, we got acquainted with lots of nice people, and we came to love them. We prayed and fasted and lost ourselves in the service of others. We experienced discouragement, frustration and great joy. Craig and I grew closer together and learned to work as a team more than ever. Some of our favorite things we did was serve with the open house for the Provo City Center Temple. We got to be among the some of the first people to walk through it. We gave some tours and we worked in the area where people assembled to watch a film before attending the temple. We were blessed to do a chapel tour almost every week of our mission. This was almost always a spiritual experience for us and the people we taught. We walked in the Fourth of July Parade. Even though it was a long hot walk, the cheering crowds engergized us and moved us along. We met and worked with many good young missionaries and fed them once a week for lunch. We were privileged to work with many good senior couples who taught us and inspired us with their great examples.
Our MTC Group August 2015










February Fun

February 2017

February was filled with lots of good things.  We finished our mission on February 17th.  We celebrated February birthdays and Lauren's baby blessing.  We doted on the new babies that were born in recent months.  I was called to serve as a counselor in the Primary.

What a cutie!

Sweet Lauren

A Happy Baby!

Lunch with my Brothers and sister-in-laws.

Lauren is growing fast.

Sweet Lauren.

My first pack meeting for my new calling.
The pinewood derby.  I kept score.

Andrea brought this over and said it was her plant.
Talk about having to bloom where you are planted.

The cake for Lauren's Blessing day.

Grandpa and Emerson

Dinner at Danica's

Fun with Cousins

Happy Blessing Day Lauren.

One of my better photos of Emerson.


Happy Birthday Mike and Missy.

Another New Year

January 2017
We had lots of snowy days this month.


Happy Birthday Andrea!

A proud brother with his new sister.


Lauren is Born

December 22, 2016
Danica entered the hospital early to be induced.  After several hours,  Lauren came into the world.  Danica had the red haired child she had hoped for.  She was a beautiful baby.
Just Born

Her first week at home being treated for Jaundice.

What a relief!


Proud Grandma

What a happy moment!

Christmas Memories of 2016

December 2016
December flew by as always.  We attended the Festival of Trees to watch Kevin's older children sing in their school choir.  We held our family Christmas party early in the month to accommodate schedules.  Christmas day was spent attending church, singing in the choir and having family over for dinner.  We made extra visits taking Christmas treat to almost all the people we had visited this last year on our mission, as well as our neighbors.  Whew!
A quiet moment with Emerson.  What a darling!

The "Frozen" tree was a favorite at the festival of trees.

Babysitting for Danica when Lauren was born.

Festival of trees.

If only we could buy everything.
Debbie surprised me with this beautiful centerpiece.
I love it!


It was a fun evening.









What could be in the biggest package of all?