Mission Tour

Welcome, The Walker's. 

 We are thrilled to have them here for our 

mission tour.  We picked up Elder and Sister 

Walker at the airport and took them to see

 the mission office.  After a couple of pictures,

I have to blog about this you know.

Elder and Sister Walker in front of our office.

Elder Walker pulled President over for a picture with him.

And then Sister Walker and I took a picture together.

After we did a little tour of the office, we took them to dinner

at a nice little Italian restaurant that we like, called "The Sicilian".

They traveled all day and we have a big day tomorrow so we took

them back to the mission home and set them up in the 

"general authority" room and then we all bedded down for the night.

The next morning I set out a continental breakfast feast.

Bananas, bagels and cream cheese, orange juice, milk and yogurt parfaits.

Just from our brief visit at dinner the night before, I could tell that

they are wonderful people.  Elder Walker has so many amazing stories to tell.

Stories about temples, all over the world.  I could have listened to them

forever.  I felt a little cheated, we only had them for one night, they

spent the other two nights with the Cards, because they are doing

a temple review on the Edmonton Temple while they're here.

I had to have them stand by my "Welcome" sign.

The tour went really well.  They spoke to half our mission on

Wednesday at the Riverbend building.  Karin Jaffray served us

a very nice lunch of super nachos, just like I serve to our incoming

missionaries.







 And then on Friday, after the temple review, we picked

them up at the Card's home and we participated with the other half of the

mission at the Millwoods building.  Elder and Sister Walker had an early

flight back home so we had to make the meeting a little shorter, so we

took an early break and Karin served muffins and fruit, with milk and

orange juice.  After the meeting concluded, we whisked them off to the airport,

said our goodbyes and put them on a plane.

I told Elder Walker, I would really like to attend a temple dedication

extravaganza, how would I go about doing that.  He told me, any new temple,

anytime, he happens to know the person that can get me a ticket. Wink, wink.  Yeah!!