Meetings and Visits, March 21...

Independence Attraction Coalition Meeting

We started out our day with an 8:00 meeting held at this 

National Frontier Trails Museum.  It's a meeting where 

representatives from the different Historic sites in Independence 

come together to talk about different activities coming up at 

each of the sites as well as combined events.  Very interesting 

and nice people.  It's fun to be involved in the community.

This is Sisters Harley and Lifferth in the Teaching Center at 

the Independence Visitors' Center.  When people call in on line 

to have an online chat or phone conversation through Mormon.org,

this is the place it happens!  Each of the Sisters assigned to the

VC get to have some time when they are on shift to come into 

this area to answer questions and teach through the internet.  

Great things happen here...even miracles! :-)  We also have one

of these Teaching centers at the Historic Liberty Jail for the 

Sisters that serve at that site!  It's really a great resource for teaching!

When Visitors come to the Center, the Sister missionaries (and

sometimes the Senior couple missionaries) will take a family 

or group on a tour through the different areas here.  This is 

Sister Rust greeting a family before starting a tour with them.

We had lunch today with some friends...Eric and Faith Freestone.  

They served in Greece for 4 years on their missions together. 

They were a senior couple serving there for a year and then

were called to be Mission President and wife for another 3 

years!  They did get to come home for 6 months in between 

the missions to prepare and take care of things at home.  That

was a wonderful hard challenge that they will never forget. 

They are serving as temple ordinance workers at the Kansas 

City Temple now.  Eric is also a Sealer there.  They're such

good people and it was so fun for me to get to know them. 

George knew Eric from back in High School.  I'm so sorry

I didn't get a picture taken with them!

Gladys and Paul Lowry Family

We finished off the day having dinner with Gladys and Paula 

and their beautiful family.  They came for spring break to stay 

with some dear friends in Liberty!  It was so nice to have dinner 

and a good visit with them at their friends' home.  The Lowry's 

are such wonderful, dear friends!