Our camera is getting old…we bought if before we left for Indonesia…and it does not catch fireworks as well as it did at one time. We watched them with two other couples from the lawn at the edge of our apartment complex. They were shot off at a field just a few hundred yards from where we sat so we had a great view. When the show was over we just picked up our chairs and we were home in about 5 minutes.

The middle picture is a last one for the Fort Lauderdale district before transfers. When transfers were done, half of the missionaries had been sent to serve somewhere new. Elder Rippstein was called as an assistant to the President. Elder Plowman has been in the district for almost the whole time we have been here and has moved to North to the Palm Beach zone. Elder Wilson has moved way North to Fort Pierce which is about the top edge of the mission. Elder Rasmussen was moved a little South and is serving in Miami Shores. I have posted a number of pictures of Elder Rasmussen and I do not think I ever caught him not smiling until this one. These are all above average missionaries who were replaced by other above average missionaries…it is just what the Florida Fort Lauderdale has.