Senior Missionaries

This blog post is going to be mainly for us because we want to keep these folks, meaning our fellow senior missionaries, in our memory and in our blog.  This mission wouldn't have been so great without them to help us, answer questions, go on adventures with, or just generally hang out.  We've pretty much put them in as we met them through these past weeks and months...

Our first friends in the DR - Lynn and Janet Snow and Marcia and Rodney Ford.  They were such mentors and examples besides the funnest people to hang out with! Snows live in Randolph, Utah, and Fords in Bountiful.  

Darrel and Joann Hammon - former Area Welfare missionaries -
Pleasant Grove, Utah - just an amazing couple, always doing good.

Jim and Janet Schmidt - West Mission Office couple - always smiling.

Tim and Marsha Walker - Missionary doctor - Arizona

Chuck and Vickie Rucker - Area auditing - Arizona - our bestest buds.

Edith and Wallace Haws - DR Humanitarian missionaries - Arizona
We worked together on a lot of closing ceremonies, and he plays a mean ukulele.

Jill and Ray Johnson - Area Publishing Manager/ Area Legal Asst. - Park City.
They live just below us and have been so grateful to have other members/missionaries close by.

Leon and Marilyn Button - Exec. Sec. to Area Pres./ Historian - Arizona.
They have taken us to the beach for some great relaxing times.

Richard and Wendy Low - Former Area legal asst. - Calgary, Canada
They lived below us for about six months.  Great folks!

Sister Chantrill - Temple missionary - Wyoming

Pres. and Lenore Hernandez - East Mission president - Puerto Rico
They were the ones who gave us the Consuelo Branch assignment last year - great folks.

Glaziers - previous MTC president - Sandy, Utah
Such fun people - we miss them here!

Sister Munoz - PR, Sister Marie Cuenot - Paris, Temple missionaries
Sister Cuenot served a mission with my brother Bert - 

Cozanne and Curtis Mahon - Seminary and Institute - Utah
Such great people - she has been a wonderful help during some
ill times that I've had here.

Dick and MaryLou Roberts - PEF - Arizona
Their apartment was above us for 7 months before they left.
Great photographer, and she is so creative.

Kathy and Scott Rees - Area Music - Morgan, Utah
They have been such amazing missionaries, teaching piano
to dozens of folks here.

Pat and Tom Ferguson - Family Records Preservation - California
We have such interesting conversations with them - they have sailed
around the world on their boat.

Roger and Cindy Shaver - former Missionary doctor - Idaho
We did 27 Waterfalls with them (and Fords and McDermids)

Francis and Phyllis Eichbush - East Mission Office - Lindon, Utah.
He's the best banana bread baker.  Such dear folks!

Former temple presidency - Larry and Joann Bair - temple president - Vancouver, Washington
The Casanovas on their right and the Munoz' on their left - both from Puerto Rico,

Jim and Joy Crismon - Area Humanitarian missionaries;
Pleasant Grove, Utah,  great office buddies;
she's an amazing water colorist.

Garry and Janet Flake - the new temple president here, Utah

Phil and Liz Freestone, MTC president and wife -
so friendly and outgoing

Gordon and Barbara Barker - Oregon - temple missionaries
that we have enjoyed serving with.

The McIntyres - Family Records Preservation - Wichita, Kansas,
Such fun folks

Luciano and Germania Javier - Temple Missionaries - DR
Such knowledgeable folks about the Church here.

Lamar and Sarah Gray - Temple missionaries;

Always so happy and helpful

Carole Hyde and Sharon Hathaway - great temple missionaries;
Carole has been such a help to me in the Temple

Brad and Sherrie Dalton - new Records Preservation missionaries;
So helpful and just great people.

Kevin and Elaine Mortensen - East Mission Office - Utah;
Brand new; but he was one of the first missionaries here and
wrote a great history of the Church in the DR

Joe and Julie Merino - Mental Health missionaries - Denver, Colorado;
He's a marine biologist and has made shell hunting here very interesting;
Julie does a great job counseling the young missionaries.

Dennis and Diana Despain - Temple missionaries - Logan,Utah;
Great musicians and Consuelo buddies

In addition to all of these great missionaries who live/d here in the Dominican Republic, we have made some good friends with other missionaries throughout the Caribbean.

The Towers from San Diego in Antigua

Kathy and Brent Bird- St. Vincent - missionaries serving in the West Indies
 who are Public Affairs specialists for their mission -
Idaho Falls - just so enthusiastic and fun to serve with

We realize in doing this that we are missing a lot of photos from others - the Ytruraldes who were Family Records Preservations missionaries, the Kanyangas (from the Congo, but most recently Korea, with a very amazing story) who are Temple Missionaries, and the dear Larsens, who were the first guides for us, taking us to Church that first Sunday and to the fruit market and the grocery store as we tried to get stocked up.  We're sure that there are others, too, who we are forgetting right now.