Quotes of the Week

Your worship in the temple and your service there for your ancestors will bless you with increased personal revelation and peace and will fortify your commitment to stay on the covenant path.
--Russell M. Nelson

What is most important almost always involves the people around us. Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
--Thomas S. Monson

You cannot buy or command joy. You can only receive it by doing things that will make you joyful, such as reaching out to others, serving, helping them, and being a good neighbor and friend.
--Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Mormon Battalion; Farewell to Hemingways; Transfer #23; Aloha!

As is our cycle, it was time once again to take a group of missionaries to the Tequila Factory for a Mexican buffet lunch before walking down the hill to attend a tour at Mormon Battalion.

It was the last day Elder and Sister Hemingway would be there as they completed their mission at the Mormon Battalion.

They had invited us to have dinner with them that evening. They took us on a little guided tour before dinner. Up high on the hill were some monuments dedicated to the Mormon Battalion.

We really love the Hemingways. He was our study group leader from the Missionary Department in the months leading up to our mission. Then shortly after he retired, he was called to be the Director of the Mormon Battalion Historic Site.

Every six weeks when we take our missionaries to the Mormon Battalion, they both would attend our meeting after the tour and each of them would take a few minutes talking to the missionaries. We loved hearing what they had to say and we loved seeing them every time we went.

The next day was our new leadership meeting. This time there were four new district leaders and one new sister training leader. We had three assistants and two sister training leaders there to help with the training.

Another transfer was about to go down in the books. We had a small group of departing missionaries this time.

The assistants did their job cleaning up the kitchen while the rest of us had testimony meeting.

Elders Brenden Stark and Joshua Mann

Sisters Madison Romig, Bailey Bourdos and Jessica Langton

The next morning we took them to the temple before dropping them off at the airport.

We took the assistants to lunch at Tom Ham's Lighthouse Restaurant. We love to eat there by the water. It is very relaxing.

Later that afternoon we picked up our group of new missionaries at the airport.

We bring them back to the mission office two days later to get a picture with them to send to their parents and to do some training.

Glen has gone into major project manager planning mode as we are faced with the consolidation of missions. We met with President and Sister Clark of the Irvine Mission at our mission office and got all these tasks lined out that need to be done. Glen then put them all on a spreadsheet and is working off that to make sure everything gets done.

Their whole mission will combine with half our mission which will include the Vista, Carlsbad and Escondido missionaries.

Another day we went to the San Diego Mission office and met with President and Sister Stubbs who will be receiving our Del Mar missionaries when the consolidation takes place.

We met another day with President and Sister Hammon from the Riverside Mission who will be taking our Temecula and Murrieta missionaries.

We got a phone call in the middle of the night from a distraught missionary. Luckily the missionaries live in the apartment complex at the bottom of our street, so we didn't have to drive far to go and console them and give the missionaries a blessing. Thankfully the middle-of-the-night issues only happen very rarely.

Let's end with some bright, cheerful, happy Hawaii vacationers' photos. I loved seeing Abe and Klarissa's family spending time together in such a beautiful location and thought I would share them.

ALOHA!!!!

Quotes of the Week

So many of us make a fuss of matters of small consequences. Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.
--Gordon B. Hinckley

The Lord knows each of us. Do you think for a moment that He who notes the sparrow's fall would not be mindful of our needs and our service?
--Thomas S. Monson

The temple can be both a place of defense for you and a place of refuge from the growing storms that are around you.
--Ronald A. Rasband

The quality we must cultivate is humility. Humility is the great protector. Humility is the antidote against pride. Humility is the catalyst for all learning, especially spiritual things.
--Dallin H. Oaks

Quotes of the Week

The Church is all about people. It is all about you, the Lord's disciples--those who love and follow Him and who have taken His name upon them by covenant.
--Gerald Causse

His laws are a manifestation of His love for us and obedience to His laws is an expression of our love for Him.
--Carole M. Stephens

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.
--Gordon B. Hinckley

If we will keep spiritual learning in its proper place, we will have to make some hard choices of  how we use our time... When we put God's purpose first, He will give us miracles.
--Henry B. Eyring