Well, this is our last night in our mission apartment here in Peachtree City, Georgia! It has been a GREAT 2 years and we will surely miss being here and the wonderful people that we have met....so many dear friends. Missions are GREAT!
Monday was another travel day for us. We were off to the Georgia Macon Mission for our last round of Zone Conferences! We got to travel pretty much all back roads. We have come to prefer that instead of the boring highways. It is scenes like this that make them so enjoyable! Got to love this. This scene goes hand-in-hand with red clay back-country roads!!
And, when we are anywhere near the M & M Fruit and Vegetable Stand we just have to stop in to say "HEY" to Morris and Jean and Elsie and Roger. They are the owners. We had to pick up some raw peanuts and fried peanuts and pecans this time. We are set with our T.O.E. Jam!! We actually gave them a Book of Mormon, which they accepted.
At our first Zone Conference on Tuesday, we got to see my cousin, Elder Rhett Hiatt!! I brought the hymn book that was given to my Great-Great Grandpa & Great-Great Grandma Dean (Dr. James Dickerson Dean and Esther Hiatt Dean) in the late 1800's. They were the first to join the LDS Church in the late 1800's in Mt. Airy, N.C. I had promised Elder Hiatt that I would let him see it. He was excited.
After Zone Conference we headed back over to Macon, GA where we spent the night in the mission home, at the invitation of President and Sister Cottle, our dear, dear friends. They always take fotos on the front steps of the new missionaries coming in and the departing missionaries! Today, it was a foto of the 4 departing missionaries!! They leave in a month. We leave in a week!! Weird to think about that.
In the August Zone Conference we got to see Sister Breken Bearnson, daughter of Lisa and Steve Bearnson. How fun to see her. She was doing great and seemed very happy!
At lunch time, when the Zone fotos are taken, I handed my iPhone to a missionary and had them take a foto for us. And we ALWAYS get a few selfies when I do that. Love those selfies!!!! Since there are 2 Zones in each conference each day, no one was missing their turn being in their zone foto.
One of the Zone fotos.
Bless our pea-pickin' hearts!!! We always find ourselves eating by ourselves! That is because we are always busy seeing missionaries during the lunch break so they don't miss their training. Sister Cottle snapped this foto for us.
Our last Zone Conference ended in Savannah, GA. One of our most favorite places!!! Afterward, the senior missionaries and President and Sister Cottle and President and Sister Fussel (counselor in the mission presidency) invited us to go with them down to River Street for dinner and walking around. We loved it. We ate dinner at Huey's. It was very good.
As we were walking around down by the River, we stopped and had an ice cream cone and sat out front to just visit and relax a minute! SO Fun!!
This is pretty much what we looked like on a daily basis for the past two years as we checked in and checked out of numerous hotels. We got to where our routine was pretty 'normal' and we had it 'down pat'!!
Our last Sunday in the Whitewater Ward was today. We were able to kind of sneak in and didn't really tell anyone it was our last day. We wanted to do that. It worked!!
In the evening, my cousin, John VonCannon and his wife, Carol, came to our apartment to visit with us before we leave. We have enjoyed having them fairly close by. We have been to visit them in Madison several times. This was their first time to come see us in Peachtree City.
And that, my dear, family wraps up yet another week and another mission.....almost! It will be a very busy last week for us. And more traveling! Stay tuned next Sunday for that report!! We love y'all and truly appreciate your support these past 2 years. We could NOT have served this mission without each of you supporting us. KIITOS PALJON!!
There were two stops we needed to make on the way: The first would be in Americus, Ga. We found out of Sunday afternoon that Patrick Kay is now living here and working as the Main Street Manager. How interesting that is was kind of close to Tifton, Ga where our Zone Conference would be on Tuesday. We had a great visit with him. We got to see his new home and meet his new wife of one year ago. Great little town.
And, when we are anywhere near the M & M Fruit and Vegetable Stand we just have to stop in to say "HEY" to Morris and Jean and Elsie and Roger. They are the owners. We had to pick up some raw peanuts and fried peanuts and pecans this time. We are set with our T.O.E. Jam!! We actually gave them a Book of Mormon, which they accepted.
At our first Zone Conference on Tuesday, we got to see my cousin, Elder Rhett Hiatt!! I brought the hymn book that was given to my Great-Great Grandpa & Great-Great Grandma Dean (Dr. James Dickerson Dean and Esther Hiatt Dean) in the late 1800's. They were the first to join the LDS Church in the late 1800's in Mt. Airy, N.C. I had promised Elder Hiatt that I would let him see it. He was excited.
After Zone Conference we headed back over to Macon, GA where we spent the night in the mission home, at the invitation of President and Sister Cottle, our dear, dear friends. They always take fotos on the front steps of the new missionaries coming in and the departing missionaries! Today, it was a foto of the 4 departing missionaries!! They leave in a month. We leave in a week!! Weird to think about that.
In the August Zone Conference we got to see Sister Breken Bearnson, daughter of Lisa and Steve Bearnson. How fun to see her. She was doing great and seemed very happy!
At lunch time, when the Zone fotos are taken, I handed my iPhone to a missionary and had them take a foto for us. And we ALWAYS get a few selfies when I do that. Love those selfies!!!! Since there are 2 Zones in each conference each day, no one was missing their turn being in their zone foto.
One of the Zone fotos.
Bless our pea-pickin' hearts!!! We always find ourselves eating by ourselves! That is because we are always busy seeing missionaries during the lunch break so they don't miss their training. Sister Cottle snapped this foto for us.
Our last Zone Conference ended in Savannah, GA. One of our most favorite places!!! Afterward, the senior missionaries and President and Sister Cottle and President and Sister Fussel (counselor in the mission presidency) invited us to go with them down to River Street for dinner and walking around. We loved it. We ate dinner at Huey's. It was very good.
As we were walking around down by the River, we stopped and had an ice cream cone and sat out front to just visit and relax a minute! SO Fun!!
This is pretty much what we looked like on a daily basis for the past two years as we checked in and checked out of numerous hotels. We got to where our routine was pretty 'normal' and we had it 'down pat'!!
Our last Sunday in the Whitewater Ward was today. We were able to kind of sneak in and didn't really tell anyone it was our last day. We wanted to do that. It worked!!
And that, my dear, family wraps up yet another week and another mission.....almost! It will be a very busy last week for us. And more traveling! Stay tuned next Sunday for that report!! We love y'all and truly appreciate your support these past 2 years. We could NOT have served this mission without each of you supporting us. KIITOS PALJON!!
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