CLOSING BANQUET

The medal that we got

Every time the brigada finishes their week they have a closing banquet. This year we had a wonderful buffet dinner and Dave Sheets put together a slide show of the week's events. It is just a good time for people to dress up and enjoy each other's company.

A group of future missionaries singing to us

We had a surprise during the dinner. Elder Cordone who is an area Seventy and who was instrumental in planning the whole trip brought several of the future missionaries that we worked on to the hotel. They sang for us and presented each of us with medals to thank us for the service that was performed during the week. They sang the EFY arrangement of the Armies of Helaman....a song that I have always loved. When the missionaries here sing it in Spanish I just cry and cry. Here they are singing about being this army....and they really are the army. It just affects me.

Getting our medals

It was a very touching evening and we were pleased to see several of the youth that we met during the week. It makes it so much more real to be able to identify the missionaries. Hopefully we will be able to see some of them in the future as they serve.

The ladies from Registration pulling their hair out
Hermana Tomkinson, Karen Lucero, Melanie Roundy, Jan Herrod and Sharon Anderton

Our future missionaries singing The Armies of Helaman...listen for the word Helaman!!
Sorry about the last part.....I tried to edit it for 2 hours...but my computer skills aren't that great...


This concludes the blogs on our Guatemala adventure (thank goodness!!). We had a wonderful time...it was a good middle to our mission. The people were great, the work was fun and HARD, and we enjoyed our renewed friendship with the Senior missionaries there.