Fun, fun, fun.....

We did not have a graduation this week, so we spent time catching up with paperwork, cleaning our apartment and generally enjoying the beautiful weather this week.

We were able to take one of our graduates out to dinner and on a tour of the Mormon Battalion because he was leaving the next day for his MOS school and was staying in the USO at the airport overnight.  He is an amazing man. He was in MRP (medical) for 7 months before he was picked up by a company and finished his training. During that time he brought at least seven of his friends from MRP and many were baptized. A wonderful missionary!

We also had a sad/happy occasion to celebrate as one of the other military relations senior couples is scheduled to go home this week. We all met at the Cheesecake Factory to say goodbye and share a FHE lesson together.

We will miss Elder and Sister Lawson so much!

Sister Storrs gave us a lesson about Lucy Mack Smith and made these angels out of sea shells. Each one was designed for the Sister she gave them too!!! I love mine....

We are breaking records for temperature this week in San Diego.  So we decided to enjoy a day at the beach.
We ended up at Tory Pines State Park because we just drove up the coast looking for a beach :-)

We love our mission and the blessing of time to enjoy all that Heavenly Father has blessed us with!

We feel honored.....

This week was interesting. We had our usual reception and cake cutting on Thursday for India Company.  During the reception, Elder Hodges received a phone call from the protocol officer inviting us to have breakfast at the Brigadier Generals home before the graduation the next day!

It was an honor to be invited and the breakfast was very fancy; china, a special menu prepared by the Bayview restaurant chef and a tour of the general's home, complete with a Major General Smedley Butler room and a John F. Kennedy room (remodeled just so he could take a nap on the day of his visit to MCRD right before his last trip to Texas). 

Lots of really great displays of history.

On Saturday, the USMC Drum and Bugle Corps from Washington DC put on a performance. 

Again, we received a personal invitation and VIP seating. Wow!

 The USMC Silent Drill Team was also performing.
We had seen them in D.C. many years ago, but it was so wonderful to see them again.

Because we have no graduations until April, we decided to make a quick trip to see Suzy, Taylor and Madison and how we loved it!

Snuggling with a three week old is the best!  Oh, we also enjoyed visiting with Taylor and Suzy too!

We are so grateful for the blessings of family and knowing that as we serve, they are watched over and taken care of by a loving Heavenly Father.  We see so many miracles here with the recruits.
It strengthens our testimony and desire to continue working each day.
One more year!

Wedding!!

Camden and Eric Christiansen were married on March 5th and the reception was on the 6th.
We flew home with permission from the mission president for five days.  It took only one day to get home, well Austin and rental car...but it took two days to get back. (Lots of pictures!)

Thursday night at 8pm Eric and Camden were sealed in the San Antonio temple.

We also were so glad Cameron and Becky came with the children. We got to meet Noelle for the first time.

And play with the other children....

A Wonderful Week......