September Transfers

Sister Waddaups has quite the collection of aprons she's purchased as she travels to different Zone Conferences. Of course this one from Calabria is my favorite.

Elder Stevens loves his ice cream. Elder Stevens is a retired medical doctor, now serving as financial clerk in the office.

Sister Millet and Elder Rutledge

Sister Stevens broke her wrist just after arriving. She and her husband returned to Utah to have it operated.

 Transfers are always a busy time. Trying to arrange planes, trains and buses for all those missionaries being transferred is a lot of work. As mentioned in an earlier post, something always goes wrong with the arriving missionaries. There is always lost luggage and travel connections missed.This group came in so late, that by the time we fed them and had them open up their new area, I didn't get home till 1:00 in the morning.
The fun part for me is helping with the departing and arriving dinners. I love hearing their testimonies and plans for the new adventures in their lives. Even though I've been out for almost four months, I've really grown to know and love a lot of these young people.

Anziano Quarisima was serving in Rome and is transferred to Sardegnia

Anziano who served as Assistant to the President is now serving in Taranto

Sorella Nef returns home to California

All going home

Zaney, Anziano Stewart

September birthdays at Zone Conference

News From Home

These are the Garza children. Elder (Hyrum) Sutton and Elder Wilkie, met the Garza's early this year. Lindsey, the mom is a member and the Elders taught and baptized her husband.The two Elders enjoyed going to their home to teach and have fun rapping and playing with the kids. 

The ALS challenge has gone viral. All of my sons have been nominated at different times by different people. Jeffrey posted a video on Face Book. The fire department in Slave Lake where both Timothy and Andrew serve as volunteer fire fighters were also nominated and this is how they choose to participate. Pretty fun!

Timothy diving in!

Jennie and Eric were married on August 30 in Edmonton. Here they are in front of the Edmonton Temple where they were sealed (married) for time and all eternity.

Jennifer Rose is so beautiful!

Was bored one night, so fooled around with lighting. Ha, ha.

Jeffrey and Jalene and girls attended the wedding. Andrew was there too, but no picture. Timothy was on call so his family couldn't attend.

Missionaries Coming and Going

Every six weeks we have missionaries leaving to go home or arriving the mission. The above picture shows a banner Sister Stevens and I made to welcome our new missionaries. There's always departing and welcoming dinners going on. This one was for the arrival of our August missionaries. We had a nice lunch waiting for them in the cultural hall. However, the plane was late and bags were missing so they never made it to their lunch and went straight for the arrival dinner at the Villa. There seems to always be some excitement going on especially with arriving missionaries.

Elders Smit, Sorgiacomo, Phillips and Andryl. We love feeding the missionaries in our home.

We are either baking for them or they sometimes bake something for us. Here Elder Smit made us yummy cookies.

Ah, Elder Smit. He was so wonderful.  He always saluted when he left, which reminded of Andrew cause that's what he always does. 

Elder Kemple transferred in August and Elder Philips left just about the same time.

And then there was Elder Sorgiacomo. He and Elder Smit were the Office Elders and we took over for them so that they could go proselyte. He was a wealth of knowledge. He was transferred to Bari, so I still get to talk to him when I need help. These Elders lived one floor below us so we saw them frequently.