Some special people & our work

        These are the AP's.  Elder Moss & Elder Alvey.  They are absolutely fine young men.  They are outgoing and help us so much with our jobs.  They also have great and happy personalities.  They are like sons to us.

        This is a new member of our ward in Riverview.  He is Bede Azuka from Nigeria.  He heard about the church in Nigeria, but didn't take the time to learn about it.  Then, he went to school in the Ukraine.  It was there he kept thinking about the church and couldn't get it out of his mine.  He started to read the Book of Mormon and study.  His testimony is so strong.  He said, "nothing else matters when you know what is true.  You just have to give everything else up.  It's the only thing that is important."  He was so fun and happy when he bore this testimony.  We're grateful to have him in the ward.

        This is Elder Butz, Elder Fisihetau, Elder Maaelopa, & Elder Kaafi.  They were in the office yesterday and I just wanted a picture of some our foreign missionaries.  Elder Butz felt a little out of place, being from Highland, Utah.   Elder Fisihetau is from Utah, I'm not sure his nationality.  But, Elder Maaelopa is from Samoa and Elder Kaafi is from Tonga.  They are all great!!!!

        This is Brother Merchan from our Riverview Ward.  His wife is at boot camp.  So he needed help doing his home teaching.  We went with him to visit Sister Suzanne Milne, our Gospel Doctrine teacher.  She is moving to SLC to go to school and get her doctorate.  Great people.

        This is Sister Atwood with Pam Winters.  We met Pam last year.  We have taken her to work each weekend.  She used to work two jobs and still raise her son.  She is such a wonderful person and we just love her.

        This is Elder Atwood, hard at work figuring out where to put the next apartment in.  Yesterday, he had to drive across the mission and furnish two apartments he rented for the missionaries.  I was surprised the missionaries and him got it all loaded.  He is in charge of over 100 apartments.

        Sister Atwood is hard at work at her desk, where she spends most of her time these days.  She is here to help the President of the Mission have an easier job.  She takes care of all travel arrangements for all the missionaries, the Calendars, the History, Correspondence with parents, Packets, notebooks, and folders for each missionary, the Zone Conference Luncheons, and lots of questions from people who call everyday.  She is even learning more computer skills than she thought possible.

        We love you all and hope you enjoy reading any of these things.  Put comments in and we'll answer questions or write different things.  Our mission is wonderful, very busy, and We love the missionaries and especially the Gospel.  We are so blessed to have a knowledge of it and how we are supposed to live our lives.  God is so gracious and patient with us.  But, we must chose.  Time is important.  He will never force us; just plead with us and wait.  "Now, is the time to prepare to meet God, Behold the day of this life is the day to perform your labor."  May we all choose right.