Arizona Phoenix Mission / Taylors: SEPTEMBER and OCTOBER 2019

September and October were like being on a mission...SO MANY FAMILY BAPTISMS!!

We started September with our grandson Bennett getting baptized in New Jersey.

He was so excited to get his own scriptures from his grandparents!

Pres T has this habit of being out of town for work lately...so I got to go solo to Breyton Barber's reception to meet his sweet wife Emily! I can't even remember where he was that weekend.

OK, Matthew is not one of our RM's but he is one of my preschool students who is going on a mission, so that is almost as good!

Have to throw in the pic of the grandkids in Seattle!

I love hearing how you are still friends with mission companions!
Breanna Whipple and Nicole Elkins totally keep up with each other and even did canning together this year! YUMMY GREEN CHILIES!!

And I had so much fun meeting up with Chelsea Jewkes Muldowney when they came to Provo for a temple day. I met her and the girls there to chat for a while...

...and totally turned her girls into MONSTER MOUTHS with the ring pops I brought!

We had so much fun over Conference Weekend when we had Molesi Vaoga and his wife come to stay with us. We had mission friends stop by to say hello including Brady and Cici Jones, Christian Blake, Molesi Vaoga, Paul Wilson, Courtney and Nama Kamissoko and Caleb Brown.
And I GOT TO HOLD COURTNEY AND NAMA'S NEW BABY!!!

Caleb is such a talented photographer! He took some great shots of people for me. OK, I took this one of Christian...

Molesi

Paul

Molesi again

Nama

Brady

THANKS CALEB and thanks to all of you for the visit! It was so fun!

Austin Smith was down from Idaho and took time to meet up with both President T and I separately, which was so nice!!
He met Scott up at the Church News...

...then came down that night to the house! He brought his fiancé Caty to meet us and she is just great!

Here we are with Fiavahe and Molesi along with our AZ neighbor Ed Janulis who drove them up! THANKS ED!!!

Scott and I got to be up in SLC for the unveiling of the new LIGHT THE WORLD campaign for 2019...watch for an amazing video THE BIRTH OF CHRIST which is just beautiful and you will want to share it with many friends and family! Watch for it soon!
The view from the Joseph Smith building was amazing of the SLC Temple!

I got to fly to Seattle, solo this time, to visit the grandkids...

...and most importantly to be there for Brooklyn's baptism!
It was just beautiful and it was great seeing my daughter in law as the witness!

Here is Brooklyn with her grandparents and the traditional scriptures we gave her!

Pres T was gone STILL when I went to Daniel Shurtleff's reception to meet cute Morgan. They are so great together!

Meanwhile, Scott was hobnobbing in London with Donny Osmond, his college day look-alike...you may not believe it, but it is true!

He was there covering the ROOTSTECH LONDON family history conference.