We are planning our missionary reunion for April 10, and will have it in out home. the numbers are getting smaller as the missionaries marry or finish school at the "Y" or the "U" and move on to other graduate schools or find employment out of the state.
It has been great to watch their progress. We cannot keep track of everyone but when we bump into them or hear from them through email or even better on Facebook; it is so fun to keep up the contact. I signed up for Facebook a year ago and found a bunch of our former missionaries. They are the bulk of our 350 Friends.
I belong to two missionary groups; one is from my era a long time ago before anyone really reckoned time. That group has been meeting apart from the reunions for the last 51 years. The other night we went to the Hale Theater which is a Theater in the round and watched a local adaptation of Phantom of the Opera. We went with VL Kesler and Dave Wirthlin and wives.
We all worked together in Austria years ago. VL was the District President in Graz and Dave was the District President of Vienna and I was the Traveler. VL was the one who taught Br. Brandl whom I met again wen we were back over there. Dave and Ann were the ones who lined up Mom and me on our first blind date.
I thought it remarkable as we stretched in intermission; here were three old Austrian Missionaries still hanging out together and had lives that were later intertwined. When we were there, President Uchtdorf was also there and came down and chatted with us.
By popular demand (my son John wanted to hear Erin Swenson in solo) I will include another musical video of then Erin Swenson, (now Hatch) performing on her old Viennese violin in one of our Vienna chapels. Daniel Gledhill is on the piano.
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You had very talented missionaries!!
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