On the first Friday of each month the President and the assistants hold a training session for all of the Zone leaders at the mission home. After the meeting many of the missionaries come by the office to pick up supplies for themselves and the other missionaries in their zone. Elder Beard – who was our zone leader for much of our mission and elder Shipley – who is here from Redondo III ward where I was bishop for 8 years. However we left California before elder Shipley was born.  In the middle are elders Gust and Fullmer. The last picture show elders Skousen and Hanna.

    

Elder Olson and Hatch has their hands full of supplies. Sister Beagley is always busy with baptism records and chapel cards. Her job happily increases every month as the mission continues to have great success in bringing people unto Christ. Elders Avila and Rippstein will soon be the only Assistants to the President as elders Kealamakia and Giorgino leave next week. They have had 6 weeks to learn their callings…they will continue to learn as the weeks go by.

    

Our grandson Colin shows his temper and his smile. Our granddaughter Kelli is growing up way too fast. We miss all of our children and grandchildren but we know we are about our Father’s business.

    

Going through some of posts from our mission to Indonesia I found this picture from 2007 – it does not seem that over 5 years have passed. I notice I was thinner. When watching some videos from LDS.org I was happily surprised to see Elder Subandriyo who we served with in Indonesia being interviewed. He not only has a strong testimony but a wonderful can-do spirit that helped make our mission even more enjoyable. In the mornings we often look in at the Tembe Elephant Park webcam. This screen shot shows an older elephant at the watering hole. Notice that his tusks – which continue to grow through out an elephant’s life – is as long as his trunk! So I managed to get something from each of our missions and a quick glimpse of a couple of our grandchildren in one post!