Happy Birthday Surprise!

SURPRISE!! EVEN GEORGE WAS SURPRISED! LOL!

Sisters Bishop, Malm, Stoddard and Bleak.

Sisters Draper, Bishop, Wilkins, Malm, Bleak, Udall and Godfrey!

Beautiful girls!  Love them so much!

Sooo fun!  

I got to spend the next day with my twin, Kandy and our

younger sister, April! That was so nice!  So glad they're close!

Love them so much!

Eight Witness Monument with Sisters Bleak,

Draper, Bishop and Malm...fun P-day activity.

Great way to end our time together!  Sheridan's

Frozen Custard! :-)

David Whitmer's grave in the Kingston, Missouri Cemetery.

Another P-day...Lunch with our Sisters Malm, Draper

Bleak and Bishop!

Beautiful flowers at the Historic Liberty Jail...

More...

And more...!

Visitors' Center after Friday Morning Training Meeting!  You 

can't see their faces, but we have Sisters Cammack, Zarate, 

Lifferth, Rust, Giraud-Carrier, Mudrow, Farnsworth, Greenwood

and Cooper...

Training at Historic Liberty Jail... Sisters Bleak, Draper, Malm, Bishop, 

Elder Peterson, Sisters Angerbauer, Wilkins, Godfrey and Udall.

4th of July at Liberty Jail!  Sisters Bishop, Bleak, Malm, Wilkins,

Angerbauer, Draper, Udall and Godfrey...

One of our WONDERFUL STL's at HLJ, Sister Draper!

We've served with her at the VC as well.  She really 

"gets it"!  She understands her purpose and loves the Sisters!

This is another one!!  Sister Bleak serves as an STL with

Sister Draper!  They have such wonderful insight to how 

to teach during presentations!  They help all of the Sisters

as well as us!  We sure appreciate their leadership and influence!

New Couples, Visitors and History tour...

Sister (Nancy) and Elder Paul Hansen.  We're so 

glad they are here serving as a Senior couple at

the Independence Missouri Visitors' Center and 

Historic Liberty Jail.

We're serving together again!  They served with

us in the Philippines 4 years ago!  They are 

such wonderful missionaries and we feel 

blessed to have them here!

This is a Returned Missionary from our Philippines

San Pablo Mission!  His name is Alex Yost.  

He stopped here on his way home to Virginia!  

It was so good to seen him again! 

What a fine young man he is!

Alex with his mother, being taught by Sisters Bingham and 

Mudrow at Joseph Smith's timeline display.

Elder Peterson, Alex, Sister Peterson and Sister Yost.

Sister Welch is teaching about the History of Independence,

Jackson County, Missouri.

Just a different view...

Sister Welch in continuing to teach a group in the cabin...

This is a room at the end of the History tour.  It talks about growth

of the church since the time of Joseph Smith.

This is a little section where children can play and pretend...

Here we are with Rene Brooks who we knew when we were raising 

our kids in Coolidge.  Her dad was our Bishop for most of our time

there.  She stopped here for a tour, not knowing that we were serving

here!  The Hansens knew her too!  Pictured is Elder and Sister

Hansen, Rene, Myself and Elder Peterson.

Here we are with Rene and her cute family...

Where we were helping out at Liberty Jail, we ran into this 

young man, Brother Alvaro!  His brother served with us in our

in the Philippines. He had an aunt and other relatives with them 

that also recognized us... They all live in Texas now.  It was

fun to run into thes

Our Stake President, Jay Andersen, and his wife, Cindy,

and their family came for a visit to the VC and HLJ and

we had the opportunity to visit with them while they 

were here!  Cindy's parents came too! Great family!

This was a unique opportunity to run into this family, the 

Christiansen's from Cincinnati, Ohio.  They were good friends 

to our son, Grant and his wife, Amy.

It was fun to run into Kristi and Hyrum Wright while they were

on a tour with a group of Seminary and Institute teachers! They

are friends from Gilbert, Arizona!

Training at the VC and at the Liberty Jail...

Sister Anderson gave a great training reminding us about having 

a balance in our teaching...to include Doctrine, History and 

People (making it personally relevant to our visitors).

Elder Peterson and the Sister Training Leaders at the Visitors'

Center, Sisters Lifferth and Giraud-Carrier, giving and 

training and practice teaching.

More training and discussion...

Front...Sisters Simkin, Anderson, Welch, Cammack and 

Giraud-Carrier.  Next row...Sisters Garay, Zarate, Larson and

Yates.  Sister and Elder Sharp are sitting in the back.

Front...Sisters Cooper, Rust, Mudrow, Bingham and Lifferth.

Next row...Sisters Gudgeon, Davies, Greenwood and 

Farnsworth.  Elder and Sister Hansen are in the back.

Our beautiful Sisters from Historic Liberty Jail, from the left...

Sisters Bishop, Malm, Angerbauer, Wilkins, Udall, Godfrey,

Draper and Bleak.

These are the Sisters new this transfer... Sisters Malm, Bishop,

Wilkins, Godfrey and Draper.

June, 2017 Transfers...

Saying goodbye...

Sweet Sister Gonzales was with us for just a short time.  She

was out in full proselyting area for a long time.  We got to 

have her at the Historic Liberty Jail for one transfer before

she finished her mission.  We will miss her!

We love you Sister Gonzales!

We were so blessed to have these two in the Visitors'

Center for one transfer!  They are two great missionaries

whose mission call was for a full proselyting mission, 

not Visitors' Center called. We love them! 

Sister Sly and Sister Orton.

Sister Orton went back to full proselyting area...so did

Sister Sly... (I missed getting a picture of her with us!)

These two really enjoyed being companions this 

transfer!  Sister Cooper stayed but Sister Sly left 

us this transfer...Out to full proselyting...

Sister Rice was a fabulous missionary.  She finished

her mission after serving with us 2 transfers at the

Liberty Jail.  We'll miss her!  Again, I'm sorry we 

didn't get a picture of her with us too!

Sweet Sister Edwards...we will miss her too!  She went

back out to a full proselyte area!

She's a sweetheart and a good missionary!!

This was taken the night before transfers.  Dressed up just for the

pictures, these sisters have been serving here in Liberty Jail 

together this transfer.  Sisters Angerbauer, Farnsworth, 

Gonzales, Garay, Mease, Udall, Rice and Bleak.

all the other Sisters are waving goodbye to Sisters

Gonzales and Rice.

Sister Rice expressing feelings and testimony about

serving at Liberty Jail before returning home.

Sister Gonzales, also expressing her testimony...

At the front of the jail...Down in front is Sisters Angerbauer and

Udall.  Back row, Sisters Mease, Farnsworth, Gonzales, Rice,

Bleak and Garay.

Welcome new Missionaries...

Here's the new missionaries with President and Sister Vest.  I wish 

I knew all of their names...I only know the ones that are VC called.

Starting with the first sister on the left, Sisters Welch and Godfrey. 

The one on the far right is Sister Yates.  Sisters Welch and Yates 

are assigned to the VC and Sister Godfrey to the Liberty Jail.