Leaving NYC and coming Home.

Monday morning. Well, the big day is here.  Ready or not we are coming home.  Not sure where we are going to live, but that's mission life.  President Roberts (1st Counselor in the Temple Presidency) drove us to JFK airport and dropped us off.  We drove through Central Park and down 5th Ave.  We said goodbye to all the great places we learned to love and appreciate.  The Temple is at the top of the list.  Standing in the airport was just like being in Poland again.  We started to get a feeling of deja vu...It felt a little like being in Poland...except we could understand everything!

Checking in our bags at the Delta Airlines courtesy counter.  We boarded the plane where we first flew to Atlanta, GA; had an hour wait; boarded another plane and landed in Las Vegas 6 hours later.

Riding down the escalator in the Las Vegas McCarren Airport...Again, deja vu!

...we were greeted by this wonderful crowd.  It's SO good to see them! Even in 7 months, they have all grown up a ton!  We left home in February and thought we would return 23 months later.  Our plans changed with a new calling beginning November 1, 2015.

We love this crowd and it's so good to see them again! This is why we serve missions. Not only do we love our Savior, Jesus Christ, and want to do all we can to thank Him for all He has blessed us with...But we firmly believe that when we serve the Lord, the Lord blesses our family!  (We missed not having our sons, Dane and Willis with his family there; but we knew they were there in spirit!)

So what do you do with this hungry crowd at 7:00pm?

You go to IN-N-OUT and get hamburgers, shakes and fries! And that's what we did! 

We were at Shake Shack in NYC yesterday and In N Out in Vegas tonight.

We are so grateful to have been able to serve in the Manhattan Temple for the past seven months. We learned SO much that will help us in our future calling. We loved our temple mission....but look forward to serving another 3 years in the Las Vegas Temple. Serving in the Manhattan Temple was truly a calling from the Lord.  It surely prepared us for our calling in the Las Vegas Temple.

The Church is true, and I love being a member of it! It has blessed my life immeasurably!