Tuesday, June 30, 2015

We are real Texas missionaries, it is a proven fact that missionaries take more pictures of clouds than anything else! The sky is SO BIG in Texas.



Lake of giant water lilies at Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge under a big big sky.

Beautiful morning clouds at the Temple.
Oil refineries and big clouds near Lake Charles, LA
Seriously, the highest elevations in our mission are the bridges.
Dramatic sunset heading west to Baytown.




Zone Conferences held June 15th & 18th 2015

Orange Zone with Elder & Sister Haynie and Elder & Sister Foster

Beaumont Zone

Pasadena Zone

Broadway Zone

Summerwood Zone

Pine Trails Zone

Kingwood Zone

We had our annual General Authority visit. We love our AP's and there is always fun at Conference time

General Authority visitors:  Elder & Sister  Foster, Drake's, Sister & Elder Haynie

AP's, Elder Johnson, Elder Brewer (departing), Elder Mitchell 

Meeting with the AP's after they got caught in the rain.

Elder 's Huhane, Mamea, Moeakiola demonstrating the hucka - does it lose something with the suits?
If missionaries even think there is a camera around, they are in it.


We finally took our first P-day and went to Anahuac Wildlife Refuge

Alligator at Anahuac Wildlife Refuge


The waterways, the vegetation, and the sky are a beautiful contrast
Denny spies the alligators like he did the deer

Water lilies as far as you can see 

Yellow wild flowers

Waterway FULL of water hyacinths  


June flooding between Dayton and Liberty, Texas







I bet the fish are fresh!
Not so sure this property will sell any time soon.
This is normally a cow pasture, and this is how you herd cows after a flood.
These are come of the cows that found dryer ground.

They are trying to load some of the cattle right from the 'lake'.





This is a railroad bridge that the water is normally far below.



Missionary Life

AP's teaching at Leaderhip Training


New Missionary training, role playing.

Elder and Sister Longhurst our CES couple


Car inspections at Zone Conferences