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Some catching up...

Elder Cheney came down from Salt Lake to visit with us for a couple of hours on the 14th of June.  Mostly just to catch us up on the latest things going on up North.  So, we had a luncheon in his honor and celebrated Flag Day.  Any excuse for a luncheon.  He shared some of his experiences working with records and missionaries over the years.   We had a good time listening to his stories and testimony.  And the lunch was pretty tasty, too.

Elder Mathews started out the 11 AM festivities/devotional by doing a PowerPoint presentation about what the ROC does including where the digitized films come from and what we do every day.  It's a presentation we all have available now for our own presentations to give at wards if they want to know what we do.  

Elder Cheney was introduced and spoke about his experiences working with many languages up at the ROC in Salt Lake and where we are going.  He also gave us some inspirational direction, which we always need.

 

The devotional room was full, as it usually is when we have a guest speaker.  

 

Then on to the main event, the eating.  Elder Savage, one of our young Service Missionaries, who serves in the North Wing along with Elder/Sister Payne as their leads.

 

The devotional room turned into our eating room after the training session.  A nice place to gather since the air conditioning works much better than outside.   That is important here in St George!

 

Elder/Sister Mathews trying to get in a couple of bites as I wander around taking pictures.  He cooks and she tries to coordinate the activities.

 

Elder/Sister McAra on the left, the leads for the ROC with their Grandson, who is thinking about attending Dixie College in the fall.  Elder (back to us)/Sister Parker are a couple of our newest Service Missionaries.  They are out in the South Wing with us doing pre-indexing records preparation.  Elder Parker had never touched a computer before he came to the ROC so this has been a new experience for him.  Albeit, a somewhat difficult one.  He is doing just fine.  Anyone can do this!