A senior couple that has been serving Member and Leader Support over on Palawan finished their 18-month mission on Wednesday. The tradition here for going-home missionaries is a trip to the American Cemetery with the president, then in the evening, a dinner at the mission home* with all the senior couples. I don't know exactly how this works for young missionaries yet.
President and Sister Stucki and seven senior couples gathered at the Mission Home and had a delicious meal of barbeque pork sandwiches, unusually good baked beans, corn on the cob, salad, watermelon and pineapple. For dessert there was poppy seed cake and ice cream. It was good to get with other senior missionaries and share "war stories" (often about driving) and experiences.
After dinner we retired to the living room and sang a hymn together. I played, Elder Northrup directed. After prayer we had testimonies from the Burts and the Stuckis, then sang another hymn and had a closing prayer. We did not know the Burts, just meeting them tonight. They are from Cardston, Alberta, Canada. I wish we had had the opportunity to get to know them better; they seemed really great. After final good-byes and a little apartment business with President and Sister Stucki, the evening was concluded.
*For any readers who are not LDS, the Mission Home is the home of the Mission President and his family, but it is also the place where arriving and departing missionaries come to and leave from, and where one of the MP's offices are. He has another at the Mission Office, which in this mission is in a separate location.
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