The Merry Month of May

I am always amazed that so much time has passed since I updated this blog.  Seems like the months that we are on the road for interviews or zone conferences we are hardly home long enough to think about anything else.  Such has been the case this month.

The week following the Conference with Elder Clayton we spent a wonderful two days in the temples with our missionaries.  Through their efforts we were able to complete 171 more endowments for the Chester side of the family.  The missionaries are always so excited to be able to be part of our lives and provide such a great service.  In the short time we have been here, according to my calculations, we have been able to do the work for about 400 of our ancestors. As you can see by the pictures, the days that we go to the temple bring so much happiness and meaning into our lives.

It was so great to visit with most of you on Mother's day.  Brother and Sister Saturnino, who are the miracle workers who do the food for us anytime we have an event, invited us to have lunch with their family on Mothers day.  President and Sister Dalton and their daughter from the S. P. Interlagos mission were also there.  It was great to visit and compare notes with them.  They were at one time in Deb's ward in Tracy.

Because of the expenses in transporting the missionaries to the Conference and the Temple this month we decided it would be better to take the Leadership Training out to each zone instead of bringing them all into the office, so we put our two assistants in the car with us and went on the road doing two mini training sessions a day for 5 days. Normally only the Zone Leaders and Sister Leaders are invited to this training, but this time we included the District Leaders and were able to do a lot of practicing with the missionaries.  We hope that that will be helpful to them on how to better train their Zones and Districts.  It was exhausting for the two of us but part of the work.

The GOOD NEWS this week is that we received our Travel Plans!!!

 and  Brother and Sister Silcox, our replacements, have received their visas and travel plans as well!!!   Looks like everything is official now.  The movers will be here Thursday to pick up the suitcases we are sending home. We are excited but still have transfers, another Zone Leaders Council, 3 Stake Conferences and a Fireside to keep us busy until we leave the end of June.

So happy for Craig, Jean and Family as Craig is called today to be a counselor in the Bishopric! One of those wish we were there days.  Love to you all.