Well its a new year and we are very close to coming home from our mission to the Mescalero Apache People. We were invited to the mission home on February 8 for a farewell dinner and a testimony meeting with President and Sister Agustin and other returning missionaries. We are happy but sad. We should be arriving in Utah around Friday, February 10 if all goes well.
We feel very lucky to have been able to serve in the missionfield bringing souls unto Christ. We worry about the branch and their success after we leave especially when we only had 12 people in attendance on New Years Eve. But last Sunday we had 27 and President Fossum gave a beauitful talk to his members about the joys and blessings of belong to the church. We really felt the spirit and was happy to see him step up to the plate. We hope they keep coming because he needs the support.
The only thing that we are worried about is the reason so many people were there was because one of the members was having a meeting afterwards to plan a feast for two of their girls. Most of the people in attendance were there because of the meeting after. Lula gave a beautiful talk on how they revere thier Apache Heritge but they should remember the most important thing is the gospel of Jesus Christ and it should be first in their lives. I hope they were listening.
Dad and I are busy trying to get around to all the members to say good bye and show them the beautiful HIstory book I created for them. The first two families were very impressed and wanted to make sure the book stayed in the church because they liked it so much.
It is going to be hard so say goodbye because we have many memories here but we are anxious to come home and see all of you again.
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