missionaries

Sister Beck and Sister Pieper, with all the people.

On Sunday April 20 we had a small get together for the missionaries. Sister Beck and Sister Pieper came for a short while, they are so busy you know. Sister Beck will be leaving for home, Modesto California, on Wednesday. We will miss her and her energy to serve the Lord. What a great example of service. She had so many appointments that she had only 30 minutes to eat and visit with those who came to say good-bye. Bishop Barrett and his wife Lisa came as well as Sister Barb Brixey. They had each gone out on different appointments with the sisters. We also had Brennen Watts, who had just been baptized on Saturday, and received the Holy Ghost that afternoon at church. Another investigator came by, Bob Karp. Paul, Heidi and Brandon have gone to his home with the sisters to teach him the lessons. It was a full afternoon of food and fun.
We love doing missionary work. It is so wonderful to see a person receive the fullness of the gospel in their lives and change for the better. It makes us want to improve as well. We will miss Sister Beck and her energy, but look forward to Sister Pieper and her new companion and the work they will do.

Missionary Work Rocks!!

We have the missionaries in our home a lot. Paul is the ward mission leader, and works with all kinds of great missionaries. Elder McCormick (pictured with Paul above) came to visit us the day before he was going back home to Oregon. He served in our ward area for 9 month's, with the best missionary spirit we had ever seen. Our children grew to enjoy his visits in our home. We shared many different dinners at our kitchen table and grew more excited about our gospel, The Church of Jesus Christ of Ladder-day Saints. Once Elder McCormick left, we have enjoyed many different Elders in our area. We continue to share our missionary spirit with others, and love to write Paul's nephew Danny Steenhoek in Mexico. Heidi's nephew, Brice Timothy has just left for his mission where he will serve in Mexico also. We just got our first letter, what a testimony of Christ he has.

On February 22 our friends the Smiths, Kevin and Christy were able to go to the Temple and take out their own endowments and be sealed together forever with their son, Micah. Elder McCormick (aka "C.J.") came to town for the great event. He was able to stay with us for a short while. It was very hard to call him "C.J." and not Elder McCormick