Still Hanging In Here

Just a quick update and a few pictures:

We've had a LOT of rain lately.  Too bad I didn't take a picture of some of the downpours we've had or the streets when they look like rivers with so much water running through them, but I did get this picture of a group of missionaries after a District Meeting.  This is not just a Mary Poppins pose.  The sun was out by the time the meeting was over, but a couple of hours before, those umbrellas saved them from being soaked. 

We said good-bye to the Cabral girls.  They headed out to their missions this morning.  We went to their setting apart last night and it was a neat experience.  You don't see 3 sisters go on missions on the very same day too often.  In fact, it was my first time, and probably my last. 

  

We finally got some more North American missionaries.  Visas are finally coming through.  Yay!  They had all been serving in missions in the United States while they were waiting.  Three were lucky and got to serve in the Pocatello Idaho Mission for a while during the dead of winter.  One of the others had been serving in Nebraska for 10 months.  Half his mission is already over and he just got here!

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We got a nice big group at the regular transfer time too.  One of them will have his brother for his trainer.  We've had cousins working together here before, but this is our first set of brothers.

Earlier this week, we also said good bye to four good missionaries.  It was time for them to leave us, head home, and get on with their lives.  It is always a little hard to see them go.  The elder wearing glasses missed his plane.  That was the first time we ever had a missionary miss his plane home.  I still haven't quite figured out how he did that.  Oh well, after two years, what's an extra day?  Right?  Unless it was me or one of my kids.  

Now that I think about it, we did have something like that happen. When Russell was coming home from Lithuania, his plane got to Salt Lake too late for him to make his connection to Idaho Falls and he had to stay over in Salt Lake and come the next morning.  We were bugged, but we all lived through it.

    

Speaking of bugs, how do you like this guy?

I think it's an albino cockroach, but Alan thinks I'm crazy.  All I know is that it is whitish, can move fast like a cockroach, and was big enough that I could see it on the parking lot from the car. That's enough to make me get the camera out, snap a shot, and run. 

Catch you later.