Today we had a bit of a going away for our soon to leave missionaries from Nauvoo. The Simons, who have been with us for almost a year as shift coordinators, will be returning to Idaho Falls in the next couple of weeks. The Hendricks, he's a fellow Assistant Engineer working with me for the last 18 months and will be returning to Utah in about 3 weeks. The Lyman's, who coordinate the Family Search building and all of the effort, while not really one of the temple missionaries, per se, are still one of us as we all work closely with them all the time. They will be returning home in a few weeks also. The Petersen's are actually leaving today. They are district workers and are local but are moving to Sycamore, UT. We wish them all well on the next adventure in their lives. We have grown very fond of them over the last year of their service.
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| As usual, getting together to break bread over delicious pulled pork barbeque and other tasty entrees. Lots of missionaries this time of years, for a while anyway as we slowly start to loose the winter missionaries. This time of year, however, they will start to loose the Assistant Engineer Missionaries that have been serving since spring of 2015. That would include yours truly...yeah... |
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President McArthur addressing the "guest of honor". L to R, E/S Petersen, Lyman, Hendricks, Simons. 
Elder Hendricks, my fellow engineer, gave an eloquent farewell speech. He will be missed.
Elder Petersen brought an appropriate end to things for the evening. Kind of reminded me of a funeral, actually. So much sadness at these missionaries leaving. Since we'll be going in a few weeks, I guess we're next month. Maybe they'll forget about us? One can only hope!
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