Onward ever onward

We seem to be over the flu except for some coughing but the work goes on. It was exciting to watch the announcement of the new prophet President Nelson and his counselors. The work continues on without skipping a beat. The only serious question our missionaries had during this period was how do we ask the baptism question about sustaining the prophet when we don’t have a presidency for a minute. So the work continues full force like you expect it to.
Mark has been working on transfers all week. The APs are with him right now going over things to see how it looks and if they have things covered the way they need to.
Yesterday was departure activities which start at the temple early in the morning with our missionaries who we will put on planes Tuesday morning.  There were only 5 this time which makes it a really nice size group and much more personal. One is from Brazil and since it was such a small group we promised him a Brazilian BBQ and it went well. They ate it down so it must have tasted good.  With only 5 people to interview Mark was able to relax through lunch with us and then while he interviewed the departing missionaries we played games. Then the senior missionaries brought us in dinner and we had another great meal. The senior couples who are leaving soon joined us so the seniors in the group ate at the large dining room table and the young missionaries ate outside.  It started to rain last night so it got chilly for San Diego.
We had a really nice testimony to end the evening. It is really touching to find out the hard things some of our missionaries have overcome in order to service and what brought them here was their testimony of Christ. Then you hand them hard things to do here and they do them.  The Spirit was really strong and you realize again what a great blessing it is to get to know them for a while and be here doing this work.

Tonight we speak at Penasquitos stake conference and tomorrow we have a Mission President Devotional to speak at in the evening in Chula  Visita.   So we are back to the speaking circuit.
Here are some pictures. Ok these are totally out of order. But you get the idea. We love you all very much. MOM