APRIL VISITORS 2014

 April is flying by and it has been SO GREAT!  We have had INTERVIEWS all month, then TRAINING IN HOUSTON and a VISIT FROM THE HUNTER FAMILY and all in-between this we have had a steady stream of visitors!

We had a recently returned missionary Brad Skalka and his Mom stop in after they came to go through the temple with a person they taught and baptized.

Michael Morton was with them, they taught the family together quite a while ago.  Great to see Michael again!

 They both found their signatures on our MISSION FLAG...which is a tough thing to do considering it has over 620 signatures on it!

 Here they are looking at the MISSION QUILT to see if they can find their quilt square.

 And here we are with them in the Living Room of the mission home.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR VISIT!

 We had a busy day with visitors...
We had the WESTON FAMILY including Scott Westons twin sister and his brother in law who you see in this photo with President Taylor showing them something on the quilt.

 And here we are with the whole family!

It was so good to meet them all and to know why Elder Weston was such a great missionary...he has a great family!

 We were blessed that day to also have CHRIS KELLEY and KELSEY KELLEY some see us!  We love seeing our married RM's!!!

 What a sweet experience to get to come see the mission of your husband!!!  I know it meant the world for me to go to Venezuela to see President Taylors mission area, and we love that AZ is so accessible for our returned missionaries to come visit!

 We had one more RM that day, ETHAN BRUEGGER took time to come say hello for the second time since he went home this winter.

He is so happy and energetic and ready to take on the world!

Missions bless our lives forever if we let them!
We hope our RMs are CHANGED FOREVER!





We were excited to have my Sister and her family THE HUNTER FAMILY, come spend a few days with us in the Mission Home.  We spent several days showing them things that are important to us here in AZ...including THREE TEMPLES!  We went to Gilbert, Mesa and Phoenix!
Here we are by the Mesa temple.  Beautiful!

And a VERY SWEET experience was to meet up with the family of ELDER PEMBERTON when we were in Houston for our semi-annual Mission President Seminar.
They took the time to come meet us at our hotel and we had the best visit!  We just love the families of our missionaries...we are instant friends and wish we could see each other more often!  THANK YOU PEMBERTONS!

April continues to be a fun month for visitors!

This week we were blessed to have AMANDA VALLEJO and her sister come for a visit!  They are as fun as you can tell from this photo! Lets just say that we laughed a lot and it was sweet to see how much they love each other and how important it was to share how much her mission area means to Amanda!  WE LOVE YOU!

The last time that AMY FOLSOM stopped by, the mission quilt was in the hands of Sister Wilson being finished!  So, she got to see the finished product this time and admired the great work!












She came this time with one of her roommates, Hayley, who looked like she could easily have been one of our missionaries!
Reminds me of one of my "Going out with the Sisters" sort of photos, right?
We just LOVE these special people (and their roommates!)






We had a sweet visit from Elder Wainwright's Dad while we were waiting for the 2 Elders at the surgical center getting their colonoscopies this week.
He was in town on business and had a couple hours to come spend part with us!  It was so great to meet him and see how much faith he has in his son and in the work he is doing here.  It was obvious that it is very much like Father like son...a pattern that means very much to us!  We value you as families supporting your missionaries so much!  We hope you know the difference you make!

As usual, please know how grateful we are to all our family and friends who love us and take time to come see us wherever we may be!  IT MEANS THE WORLD TO US!