Catching up!

Maybe I'm having a normal reaction to blogging, I don't know, but I seem to have less news and less time to detail it!

We had another transfer last week, and it seemed crazier than ever. We have missionaries coming and going off-schedule, which means they often need special transportation. One of these was a very favorite missionary of ours, Elder Wjendran, going home to his land of Sri Lanka to open it for missionary work. He is a perfectly wonderful young man, and we were really sorry to see him go. He actually went the afternoon of Going-Home Day, so we didn't get to enjoy all of the going-home activities with him.

Tuesday is going-home day, so we came in to the office, then went with the Thelers and all the returning missionaries to the temple. It is really fun to be in a temple session filled with people you know and love! Afterwards, Elder Wjendran had to leave, and the rest of us ate pizza in the gazebo at the back of the temple. Another trip to the American Manila Cemetery, and then over to the Mission Home for dinner and testimony meeting. We started with the temple at 10:00 instead of 1:00, hoping that the traffic wouldn't be so bad going back to the Mission Home from there, and our evening might be over before 10:00 pm. So, we were lucky--it was only 9:00 pm!

Elder Northrup, Elder Dennis (New Zealand), Elder Hart (California), Sister Northrup

Sister Belardo (Philippines), Sister Teeteka (Kiribati), Sister Cava (Fiji), Sister Brockbank (Utah), Sister Chong-Nee (New Zealand), Northrups, Sister Wemhoner (Colorado), Sister Mafi (Tonga), Sister Cooper (Utah), Sister Bishop (Virginia), and Sister Larsen (Virginia)

The missionaries singing their last "Called to Serve" in Tagalog.