CLOSURE -gfh

It has now been a year since we returned from our South Africa Johannesburg mission. A phrase that comes to mind is "days seem like weeks, weeks seem like months and years seem like days". That applies to our eighteen months on our mission and also to the year since we've been home. There has been a longing for home. Not home in Waldport USA, but home in Johannesburg South Africa. Not so much that we would rather be there than here but that there are so many dear friends and people who remain there. There our hearts were opened, our testimonies confirmed and our understanding expanded. There we learned lessons that we never thought we needed to learn. We feel we have left a part of ourselves there but we have also taken so much home with us. Our blog didn't ever really come to closure or completion. The last entry was a month almost to the day before we left for home. Not only did the normal stress and hectic schedule continue but we tried to squeeze in the departure preparation without skipping a beat. We did however skip a blog entry or two. We'll try to make up for that.

This is our AMAZING Preident and Sister Poulsen at their departure dinner.

Elder and Sister Nichols arrived about two weeks before we left to replace Elder and Sister Henrichsen in the office.

This is our Ennerdale Branch Family. The picture was taken on our last Sunday

Our AWESOME YSA young people! Oh how we love them!

President and Sister Omer, SAJM president for two weeks! We were their first missionaries to depart.

Elder and Sister Henrichsen departing from Johannesburg airport July 10, 2011. Mission completed!