South African missionaries return

 

These good looking missionaries were the very last off the plane. The families were beginning to wonder if we were at the wrong place but others leaving the plane assured us that missionaries had traveled with them. We found out that they had remained on the plane to help a man look for his wedding band. Each missionary had a beginning of a beard from traveling for 32 hours without a shave or shower. The thing I enjoyed was seeing the people that would say hi to the missionaries as they walked past them just because they were missionaries. We stopped at Brooke's house to get everyone ( Bryce had requested just the parents to pick up) and he was released as a missionary. He had a hard time removing the name tag. It was a very tender time as he asked his dad to give him a blessing afterwards. Kim gave him advice as his Stake President and I was surprised to see him take out his journal and a pen and write it down. I have had several surprises like that since. We all tumbled into bed around 1 a.m. knowing that church would be here all too soon.