Elder Sheffer's Christmas Wish

We were also helping with the Visalia Fourth Ward Christmas party. This time Elder Sheffer was able to ask Santa for a White Christmas. We have been to so many ward parties and met so many good people.

Santa at Ward Party

We were at the Visalia Third Ward Christmas party helping with the food when the Brother in charge came into the kitchen worried about Santa being to sick to be at the party. Elder Sheffer said he would check on Santa. It was a miracle, Santa was feeling better after Elder Sheffer's visit and he came to the party. Santa even took time to ask what Sister Sheffer wanted for Christmas. She wanted a White Christmas, which in missionary language means a baptism.

Thanksgiving 2011

For Thanksgiving we were invited to the Cranes home for a lovely dinner and then the mission president gave us permission to watch 17 Miracles at a members home. Their was a sweet family in the Visalia 1st ward who has a beautiful home theater and they invited our whole zone to watch the movie with them. It was a great gathering and a faith promoting movie. Thank you Henriksen family.

Transfer photo

Very six weeks there are transfers and the Elders and Sisters don't know who will be moved to a new location. So, for the last district meeting before transfers the missionaries pose for pictures. These is our first transfer photos.

First Package and Letter

We were so happy to receive our first package and letter.

Happy 55th Birthday David November 2011

We have an investigator, Angie Roque, who makes amazing cakes, so we asked her to make a cake for David's birthday. She does theme cakes and so she made a missionary cake. she placed a temple and a house on the cake with a road between them. On the road she place a yellow bike, the same color as David's old mission bike, and on the bike a Bible and Book of Mormon. We took it to district meeting and shared it with the whole zone.

Mission Apartment 1977

This is what the apartment looked like 35years ago. Yes that is David jumping down the stairs.

Mission Apartment Found

We found David's apartment from his first mission. It is on 110 W. Laurel Ave. Visalia, CA. When he was on his first mission he had a photo of himself jumping down the flight of stairs.

Coach Rowland at Zone Conference

This is from our first zone conference. This is a picture of Fred Rowland and his wife Linda. Elder Rowland was Gaile's biology teacher in high school and her brother Taylor had him for a wrestling coach. He said he was really feeling old to have one of his students on a senior mission at the same time that he was.

Meeting the President

This is a picture of our mission president and his wife. President D. Larry Gelwix and Cathyren. We made the trip to the mission office in Fresno and Sister Gelwix was kind enough to invite us to the mission home for dinner with the missionaries that were just arriving.