DEPARTING MISSIONARIES MAY 2012

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If I thought this was going to get any easier I was wrong.


We love all our missionaries, but it gets harder and harder to let them go!

We sent home 11 incredible friends on Tuesday morning.
They came back to the Mission Home with the same "Deer In The Headlights" look that they came with.  Only this time it was because they just did not know how to go home.

But they will figure it out very quickly and do it very well!!!

Here is who we have:
Front: Elders Mouritsen, Blackhurst, Hubbard
Middle/Back: Catlett, Smith, Choules, Evans, Mendenhall, Ward, Cecil and Halligan.


We took them to the Phoenix temple site to see how construction was coming along.  For some of them, this was their first visit to the site.

Elder & Sister Winchell, our temple missionaries, had collected some "nubs" from the huge bolts that they use to secure the steel structure of the temple.  He called them "witness nubs" because they witness that the structure is secure and strong.  They only pop off when the bolt is placed correctly.

It was a beautiful testimony.  These elders have spent the past two years witnessing of the truth of the secure foundation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  They have been building their own foundation in living the Doctrine of Christ.

 After a wonderful dinner and testimony meeting with the Mission Presidency, we gathered for FHE including a game...

...and a song..."Once There Was A Snowman."  Although he may not have been in our mission.

At the very end, they gathered for a group hug.

What a special group of young men!  We love them for who they are becoming and for the great potential they have to continue in serving the Lord throughout their lives!


WE LOVE YOU AND PRAY FOR YOU ALWAYS!!