New Senior Missionaries

 


Welcome Elder and Sister Jorgensen!  He will help in legal and she will assist in lots of ways - one is Pathways!!  They arrived on January 10th.


We had a Pathway meeting and could not welcome the Humphreys in person.  The are Church History Missionaries and have server 4 other mission.  They were in the Ukraine when the temple was being built!  It's nice to have another couple almost as old as we are!  They arrived on the 13th.



Welcome to the Petty's - they will be Tech experts.  We had another meeting and could not greet them in person.  They did attend Church with us today and it was good to get to know them a little.  Her family lived in Sandy, off 86th South for part of her childhood and he graduated from Provo High School when Elder Smith was teaching there!!  They arrived the 17th of January.  One more couple to come the first week of February and all the senior apartments in Oxford, that the Church owns, will be occupied. 



On Saturday, January 21st, Elder and Sister Watson got a mission van and took the three new couples to a lion and cheetah sanctuary, that is only an hour away.  Everyone had a good time.  Left to right, the Pettys, the Jorgensens, the Watsons and the Humphreys.  A couple of pictures they shared with 'Pensioners' our WhatsApp group. 



Wildebeest - I think!  They also shared a video of a lion eating, I'm going to try and post a screen shot of it - it's cool.  







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