To Vegas and back
Well, we made it. Had to go down to Vegas and pick up Paola’s
little brother Diego from his mission. It was a good experience.
Interesting to see the way a different mission is run. We got the
opportunity to see a “transfer conference”. Apparently at transfer time,
the whole mission heads out to the mission office with all their stuff,
does a little reporting, the departing missionaries get to bear their
testimonies, then the president read off all the changes. It was strange
to me. My mission didn’t do that, the President just expected that we
get rides to our new areas and be to work by 6pm on P-day. I loved being
in that atmosphere with all those missionaries though, singing hymns
and such before the meeting started. The Spirit hit me pretty good then.
The entire time I was singing (especially “Armies of Helaman”), I kept
thinking of Owen and what Paola and I have ahead of us in getting him
ready to head out. He’s so tiny. But big things come in small packages.
Got a lot to learn and teach.
Also, it was really cool. I met a sister missionary there who was
also departing. She’s from P-town (Pomona, CA)! That’s where I baptized
Jemima & Jose Castillo!! She KNOWS them and is going to pass along
my contact information. Whoa buddy. She was pretty excited to have met
the guy who baptized them. She reports that they are doing WONDERFULLY
and are super strong. I hope I can get ahold of them soon.
And, here we are back at home base. Owen made it. He’s so tough, but
the poor guy had very irregular eating and sleeping patterns over the
last 3 days. Just about to go put him to sleep. Hopefully his body
regulates again and we can get some sleep tonight too
Anyway, going to go help Paola get him down. Peace.
(Adding some pictures to Riley's post )
~Riley
~Paola(pics)
