Daily Archives: July 2, 2012

2 July 2012 – The Four Amigos and a Surprise Picture

 For this cycle the President has four assistants. Elder Kealamakea and Elder Giorgino are in their last cycle so they will train the other two elders to take their place. This will also allow the assistants to attend more district meetings and go on more splits with zone leaders. They will be able to share their extensive and effective missionary experience and abilities with more of the elders and sisters.

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Elder Kealamakea has been an assistant since before we got here back in November. Elder Giorgino is our always smiling Italian missionary who is in his third cycle as AP.

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Elder Rippstein we know from him being a zone leader with Elder Fitts for a couple of cycles and have come to appreciate his many good qualities. He also has a good sense of humor which seems to be almost a requirement for being an AP. We know Elder Avila – I keep trying to put an extra ‘l’ in his name and pronounce it incorrectly – only from the good things that have been said about him. We look forward to getting to know him better.

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Mary was pleasantly surprised to find this 2008 picture of Elder Spencer Taylor who after returning home from serving an honorable mission married our granddaughter Taylor Pier which made her Taylor Taylor or as she likes to be known Taylor Pier Taylor. We were in South Africa when they were sealed in the Salt Lake temple but we got to know and to love Spencer when we arrive home. When we got our call to the Fort Lauderdale Mission he was happy that we were going to his mission and told us a lot about it.