Friday, December 12, 2014

December 2014 Departures


In December, 14 of our missionaries completed their service and gathered at the Mission Home for the traditional departures' dinner 

The evening ends with everyone posing with the service coins awarded for completing their missions.
Back row L-R:  Elders Gardiner and Stubbs, Pres and myself,  Elders Malugin, Tavana and Proudfoot
Middle:  Sisters Connelly, Johnson, Saviano, Liu, Taggart and Carcamo
Front:  Elders Guerrero, Lussier-Houle and Horowitz



Sisters Taggart and Saviano with our daughter Elizabeth
 Everyone creates a personalized page for the Cookes' scrapbook, which page becomes the cover sheet for any other notices of important life events that missionary sends us later - e.g. these wedding invitations of former WDCN missionaries














 After dinner and scrapbooks, we gather to share funny memories of each missionary's service.

Sisters Taggart and Liu (a Temple Square sister who came to our mission for a two-transfer full-proselyting rotation),
Sisters Saviano and Connelly, Sister Johnson (blocked from view) and our daughter Carrie in back

Let the stories begin!

Elder Lussier-Houle

Elder Tavana
Elder Stubbs




Elder Guerrero


Sister Johnson

Elder Gardiner


Sister Saviano listens to Sister Connelly's story while Sister Johnson and Carrie watch

Sister Saviano

Sister Lau

Sisters Taggart and Liu


Elder Horowitz

Sister Carcamo


Elders Malugin and Tavana
Departing  Testimonies
at Transfer Meeting

Sister Carcamo


Elder Gardiner
Sister Connelly

Elder Guerrero

Elder Horowitz

Sister Johnson

Sister Liu

Elder Lussier-Houle

Elder Malugin

Elder Proudfoot

Sister Saviano

Elder Stubbs

Sister Taggart

Elder Tavana


Airport Departures:

Half the group left before Christmas:

Elder Stubbs and Guerrero on the left, Elder Lussier-Houle and Sisters Liu and Connelly


We had time for a quick lunch before this group boarded
On through security and on to the flight home for Christmas!




The other half of this group left 2 days AFTER Christmas:

Elder Gardiner on the left, Elders Malugin and Tavana on the right
Sisters Carcamo, Taggart and Saviano 


What a great post-Christmas celebration for these families!

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