Incoming!

Attention K-Mart shoppers, we have incoming!

Just kidding, I wanted to start with something new, we've done

this a few times so I wanted to shake it up a bit.

Let me start again.  Right smack in the middle of our

Christmas, the church sends us 10 new missionaries.  

Bring 'em on, we are ready, willing and mostly able.

The fun part is we get to bring our kids and let them see

how it all goes down.

Playing with the camera, making sure everything is working,

I'm still now happy with my pictures, see the glare.

This is much better, of coarse it's taken by Heather's camera.

As was this one, not a bad picture, if I do say so.

And here they come,

I'm glad Heather captured these shots, it's fun to see it from a different 

perspective.  We welcomed them to the mission and introduced ourselves.

We were supposed to get nine from the MTC and one elder is flying

up from Calgary, he is from Mexico and doesn't have his citizenship

yet, so he's skipping the MTC and will be trained here.  As you can see

there are only eight, the travel leader, Elder (who remain nameless) missed the bus

this morning and didn't make it to the airport, so another elder took over

and got them all here safely.  President got on the phone and soon discovered

that they got him a flight and he is one his way.  The zone leaders will pick him

and our Calgary elder up and deliver them to the mission home.

We like to get a picture with our new missionaries and

we pulled Courtney in for one as well.

Then our assistants pulled the truck and trailer up and came in to

welcome them too.

Another choo choo train of luggage, so cute!

These missionaries don't know how good they've got it.  The

weather in Edmonton has been wonderful, glorious, warm and dry.

These elders don't have any idea what they're in for, when they

fly in and the weather is this nice.

Can you imagine? no snow, no coats, no wind chill.

Getting all the luggage into the trailer.

Our great family supporters, Heather, Courtney and Brad.

We will take the new missionaries to the mission office

for lunch and paper work and we will meet up with the

kids later.  Dinner at the mission home tonight.

Phew, what a day!