Our friends the Bells wrote on their blog about a missionary who was serving in their mission who was close to one of their sons in California. That got me thinking about missionaries who are serving here in the Fort Lauderdale Mission who have a few degrees of separation from us…

Last Saturday we met a sister from Utah who was a student at the middle school in Utah where our daughter is the librarian. She remembers Cindy very well because she spent a lot of her time in the library doing school work. When we talked to Cindy about meeting sister Packard she did not remember her…it was 4 years ago and a lot of students have gone through the library since then.

Elder Fitts is the son of Cindy’s Stake President and knows our grandson Tyler very well.

Elder Shipley goes to the same ward as the above mentioned Bells and knows them very well.

Elder Grant was a member of the Camden ward where our serial missionary friends the Taylors served their last mission. We served with the Taylors in Indonesia and they are now serving in Botswana as part of the Johannesburg  South Africa mission.

I will try to get pictures of each of these missionaries at Zone Conferences over the next couple weeks and plug them in here. Somewhere down below is a picture of Elder Grant because he serves here in the district we go to each week for district meeting. Come to think of it Elder Fitts is now one of the zone leaders for that district.