Friday, June 28, 2019

The end is upon us!

The pace has been so frenetic that we have used our time in other ways during June.  It's been almost four weeks since we last posted.  We hope to have one more after this.

We had interviews the first two weeks of June.  We love the time with them.  Seven districts over the two weeks.  We started with Anyang and Ansan district.  We forgot to get a lunch picture...

We had a picture of these two sisters together, but somehow lost it!



 Ansan had a threesome at that time.  They were very productive.

We then went to Suji and Shingal
 

 

 Sorry for the bad lighting on these pictures.  The sun was directly overhead and this cameraman is not a professional.  We hope you can get these and make use of them.  I even had to catch the mission mom in her favorite place, among the flowers.
 For those interviews where were able to have only a district and where we didn't have any emergencies we were dealing with, Sister Turner made Lava Cake and we provided ice cream.  They were quite happy.  This may be the only picture with the tasty treat.

Next up was the Bundang and Icheon district.

 
 


 On one evening after interviews, we had a special visit from a missionary who served with us.  We were so happy to have her with us!  She came with her family.  Her older brother served in this same mission finishing up one year before we arrived.

We've had a busy couple of weeks as our returned missionaries finish a Spring term and take their summer vacation in Korea.  We are so lucky to still be here.

For the Gokbanjeong, Pyeongtaek, Anseong, and Singpung districs, we had to meet all together.  A wonderful sister in the Gokbanjeong ward ordered and prepared an amazing meal for everyone.  She has always been so generous and loving to the missionaries.  Her son is a Daejeon Mission returned missionary and is the mission leader  in the Anseong branch.  He came also to help and to entertain with his musical talents.










This was such a long day of interviews, but we loved every moment of being with them!

We had two couples and a missionary go home. It was good to be with them.  The military relations couples do so much for our service men and women.  We had a great farewell dinner.
 This banner brought so many smiles to us


We welcomed two new missionaries and another military relations couple and mission nurse.


We finished off with interviews with the Gangnam and Songpa districts.

The sisters didn't get their pictures because they arrived late and left early.  We feel bad about that.


That's it for the interviews and the missionary activities for tonight.  We will continue to post for the next few weeks as we had zone conferences up on the mountain and a few more special activities we would like to share.  We are so blessed to be serving with these wonderful sons and daughters of a loving Heavenly Father.