AUGUST MISSION RELATED ACTIVITIES 2015

August was a whirlwind of activity at the Taylor household!  We had all our kids with us from the start of the month for  a family reunion with the Taylor side of the family, and then kept them to welcome home Braden from his mission to New Zealand Auckland.

He arrived home on the 11th of August and spoke in our ward on the 16th.  We invited APM friends to join us for that day and had about 30+ show up for sacrament meeting, many stayed for a special APM Sunday School Class, and a good  number also stayed to join us for lunch after church was done.

We just spread out through the yard and enjoyed visiting and eating.

It was really fun just to see the variety of mission friends that showed up!

We had some from way early in our mission down to recently returned!

And the day was even more sweet as we were joined by all our local family as well as the Janulis family from Phoenix!

The Janulis were able to share in our Sunday School class how the Gospel has changed their lives since they joined while we served there.

The Gospel continues to bless our lives and we JOY in meeting our APM missionaries and friends who remain true to the faith!!

We love this time of year when RMs are coming out to school in Utah and Idaho!


We got to meet the MESSICK family this month when Annakiah came out to live in Utah again!  She is just as cute as ever!

And a surprise visit from Angel Munoz one afternoon!  He recently moved to the Provo area and it was so good to catch up with him!  Braden happened to be home to be our photog too, so that was great as well!
We are so proud of our RMs!!

And we hosted our AUGUST APM DINNER
 FRONT:  Ellis and Nicole (Okeson) Elkins (Yes, he served in Phoenix way before our time too)  Breanna (Wells) and Jared Whipple and new baby, Rebecca Connell.  BACK:  Braden, us, Caleb Brown, Zach Jensen, Daniel Handley and Shelby Hixson.
WE LOVE YOU ALL!

This week we were also treated to a visit from Dane McFarland on his way up to Rexburg.  We sure love that man!  He is going places!  Our missions give us experience that blesses our lives forever!

Our current missionaries in the MTC going to Italy and Romania.

Italian
District A: Sisters Goethals, Weidmann and Bartsch, Elders Hogan, McIver, Anderson and Esmay.

Italian
District B: Sisters Holiday and Taylor, Elders Friedman, Rosenberg, Pyper, Barragan, Lilly and Castronovo.

Italian
District C: Elders Marocchi, Greaves, Beveridge, Huessner, Hansen, Rogers, Ramsey and Engen.

Romanian
District D:  Elders Gerber-Kai and Miner, Sisters Yost and Jerez.