Roy and Cindy's Mission Memories

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Welcome

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Home!

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It is great to be home!!!! We love our family and can’t wait for our family reunion during the week of July 4th!!!! We meet with the Stake President Wednesday at 3:00 to be released. We are excited and apprehensive because we have never been released from a mission.

This is what greeted us when we drove up – minus Mike’s family because they had dance practice, BUT they came shortly after this was taken. We sat around and visited for a while – LOVED IT.

We have a lot up packing to do . . .

So we are driving home today and decided that we should stop in Wells, Nevada for a break. As we pulled into the parking space a man came up to the right side of our car and motioned that we were over too far (or, so we thought). Elder Boehrer said “What is wrong with my parking?” The guy said you are fine but you are riding on an almost bald tire on the back passenger side. Elder Boehrer got out and looked and sure enough that tire was very worn, which is surprising because we just had the car into the dealer for normal maintenance. Anyway, come to find out that the tire could have blown at any time. WoW!! Because we have an all wheel drive vehicle, we had to get all four tires replaced. It was needed and we are very, very grateful that we were being watched over. Whew

Sunday

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:26:00 +0000

Tyler, Marianne, Bryce

`The pageant was over around 11:00 and by the time we got to bed it was 12:00, then church was at 9:00. Needless to say, we were all quite exhausted. Dan and Tomica’ ward is in the Manti Tabernacle, which is a

Marianne – all ready for church

beautiful building. Church was wonderful – as always.

After Sacrament Meeting an old friend from home came up and said “hi”. It was Terri Cheshire! She and her husband, Ken, own a beautiful, huge home in the base of the mountain in Manti. It could easily be a resort. She invited us all to her home that afternoon. While there, the grandchildren and Dan went four wheeling on their property. Ken and Terri own four wheelers and bikes and have the perfect forty acres to ride on.

A beautiful home – the children had a great time.

The kids were in heaven!

Manti

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 21:26:00 +0000

Our ‘actor’ family – Bryce, Tomica, Tyler & Marianne

(Sorry about the eyes – they don’t really glow )

This morning we left my cousin’s home and drove to Manti to spend time with our son Dan and his family. They moved to Manti in August and live right across the street from the beautiful Manti Temple. All three of our grandchildren, Tyler, Bryce, Marianne, and our daughter in law, Tomica, are in the temple pageant. They took us on a tour of the city of Manti (about 2 square miles), then we had lunch at a little out of the way family owned restaurant which probably had the best food of any place we have eaten on our whole trip. Geez.

We also visited a historical site which showed how early settlers lived in Sanpete County

The pageant started at 9:30 in the evening. Before the pageant there were protestors all over the place. You know, I don’t understand that. Yes, they have a right to protest, but what is the point? We are not bothering them and there are other more important things to protest about (if you feel so inclined).

The protestors.

Guess we must have something that they are concerned about . . . hummmmm

Enjoying the temple view

Yep, our grandchildren were in the pageant. Danny with two of our grandchildren and a friend

Our daughter-in-law and granddaughter, Tomica and Marianne

There were 12,000 people who attended just on Saturday night.

Sandy

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:32:00 +0000

My cousin Jeanine and I.

staying there, they are the perfect hosts and Larry, her husband, and Elder Boehrer get enjoy just sitting and talking. We went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner, then they took us to the quarry where the stones were cut out of granite for the Salt Lake Temple – years ago. It is located about 30 miles from the temple. It was hard to imagine the men cutting, lifting and getting those tons of granite clear over to the temple site in Salt Lake.

Whew, today we got to my cousin Jeanine’s home in Sandy, Utah. We enjoy

The canyon is so beautiful!

Traveling . . .

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 03:01:00 +0000

Today we drove from Des Moines, Iowa clear through the state of Nebraska and ended up in Cheyenne, Wyoming at a Holiday Inn Express. Nine hours of driving!!!!! We sure do appreciate our car which gets us safely through our travels. A blessing.

Nauvoo–2nd Day and Carthage

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:12:00 +0000

Our Host Brett Allen

Brett and Marie Allen and their cute little family / beautiful backyard

We visited the Carthage Jail visitor’s center where Joseph Smith was killed

The window Joseph fell through and died.

The window from the outside and the bullet hole

Roy visiting the gun shop in Nauvoo - he loved it!!

Nauvoo–First Day

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The Beautiful Nauvoo Temple

We arrived in Nauvoo around 1:00 today. We are staying with Brett Allen who is the son of long time friends of ours, Janet and Richard Allen. Brett and his family are living in a 100 year old home that is fantastic. The wood work is beautiful. We have our own room with a king size bed and Brett is very familiar with

Brett’s beautiful backyard

Nauvoo and is being the perfect tour guide. WoW! Nauvoo is unbelievable. We are so happy we took the time to come here and learn even more about Church History.

This statue was very sad to me – it is of Joseph and Hyrum as they rode out to their deaths at Carthage

They knew they would never return to Nauvoo.

Inside the Visitor’s Center on Nauvoo

General Store and shopping with Brett. my ‘tour guide’

Inside the John Taylor Home. This is a picture of the original horse that belonged to John Taylor’s son. When they moved into this home, Brother Taylor’s son was crying because he had to leave his horse behind. So, John went out in the dead of night and crossed the frozen Mississippi to retrieve the horse for his son. He had to go under the cover of darkness so as not to be seen by the mob.

Cemetery

Joseph’s parents, Lucy and Joseph. Hyrum, Joseph and Lucy’s graves

In the evening the senior couples did a skit for us – awesome!!!

The Vocal Majority – they are from Brigham Young University and have been on television. They were great – sang without any music, just what they did by making the sounds themselves.

Happy Father’s Day and Taylor’s Birthday

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Taylor Boehrer, Michael’s fourth daughter. Taylor is six years old today and will be a first grader next school year. She is getting so grown up and also, she is a great dancer. Can’t wait to watch her!!! Love you Taylor.

I have to say how very much I love my husband. He is the best Dad and grandpa. His children still come to him for advice and just to talk. They love and respect him. What more could you ask for. My own Dad was pretty great also. He passed away ten years ago this year and he is missed. I feel so blessed to have them both in my life.

KIRTLAND:

In front of the river that Willard Woodruff was baptized in.

NOTE: Willard Richards (June 24, 1804 – March 11, 1854) was an early leader in the the LDS Church and served as Second Counselor to church President Brigham Young from 1847 until his death. Willard Woodruff was also the great-great-great grandfather of our Mission President, Mark L. Richards.

When we had to mail home some clothes before we left the mission, we inadvertently mailed ALL of our church clothes! Thus, we were unable to attend one of the wards today – disappointing.

These two tour buses filled with tourists also had the same idea of touring Kirtland . . .

The Kirtland Visitors Center. We learned so much!

Our tour guide was two senior couples – they have served three missions, all in historic church sites.

Many revelations were received at this table inside the N. K. Whitney store.

This senior missionary was our tour guide for the Issac Morley Farm. She had only been out three weeks and did an awesome job.

We finished up our tour at the Kirtland Temple, which is owned by the Restored LDS Church.

Front door and waiting area.

Anyone who knows me, knows how much I enjoy graveyards, especially old ones. This one had many Mormons buried here from the 1800s. Interesting.

Tomorrow we are on our way to Nauvoo, Illinois and then home!

Niagara Falls

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:03:00 +0000

Niagara Falls – WoW!

Well today we went to Niagara Falls on the US side. We understand that the Canadian side is prettier, but for us, the US side was closer. Anyways, we stood on the look out and the view was very impressive and beautiful. Yes, we could see the Canadian side across the water and it looked probably cleaner, but we got the general idea. We are so grateful for the opportunity to enjoy some of Heavenly Father’s creations.

The blue dots in this picture are people. Can you believe this boat would go so near the Falls???

Relaxing

Palmyra

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:30:00 +0000

In Front of the Palmyra Temple

We are standing in front of the only glass window in an LDS temple.

The window was placed in the temple so you can see the Sacred Grove when looking out it.

Had a great time today visiting the sites at Palmyra. Here are some pictures:

Joseph Smith Farm

Eight people lived in this cabin and ate at this table. Joseph and Hyrum slept in this bed

This is the path Joseph took to the sacred grove. The stairs in the house were so steep!

The back door of Joseph’s family cabin. The sacred grove.

Palmyra temple. Love those missionaries.

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Statue of Angle Moroni on top of the Hill Cumorah

The Grandin Print Shop tour was Elder Boehrer’s favorite.

Originals. Beautiful.

Martin Harris Farm – Beautiful!!!

This farm was like heaven – maybe because this is where the church was formed.

First Stop - Palmyra

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Relaxing at the Palmyra Inn (Yep, Elder Boehrer’s head looks pretty big)

Well, it took us five hours through rain, clouds and t cover for thunder storms, but we made it to The Palmyra Inn. What a pretty place this is. Loving it already.

Palmyra Inn

Four Corners Churches – It’s hard to see, but at this stop light there are four churches – one on each corner. It looks really neat when you see them. They are all different denominations.

Oh yeah, we got a phone call while we were driving through Pennsylvania from a man who sounded like he had been around a while. He asked us questions about our names, etc. and then he said that he had something that he found and he wanted to be sure that it was ours. Well, he found our iPad in the middle of Hwy 100 in Columbia, Maryland!!!! Yep. He was driving along and he saw this ‘thing’ in the middle of freeway. No one was driving on the road at that time (unusual) and it had stopped raining. So he got out of his car, picked up our iPad and across the road found the case. Elder Boehrer remembered that he had put it on top of our car while loading it. Long story short, he will mail it out to us. Miracles do happen.

Another miracle – we got all this into this. Well, we had to mail home two boxes. . .

Our Last Day

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We will miss our Mission Family, but are excited to see our California friends and family.

The Jones and The Boehrers – Great Friends

Our Final Day of Training

Sister Pascoe and Elder Pasco – Clowning Around

This is how hard Elder Boehrer worked today. Elder Jones getting the job done . . .

Getting Ice Cream at Rita’s with the Missionaries!

Sisters Hatori; Swisher; Mortensen; Richards; Josie; Elders Hannaman & Martineau

A Farewell

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:51:00 +0000

We had a good old fashioned barbeque this afternoon. It was for our Mission Farewell Get Together and it was perfect! ALL of the senior Missionaries came. We visited, ate barbequed hamburgers and had a great time just talking about our service. After the dinner we all sat around in President’s family room and each of us told what we enjoyed and/or learned on our mission. It was so inspiring. Serving a mission is an experience you will never forget nor will you ever have the opportunities you are given to serve others. We love our mission. We feel like the senior couples we have served with are family and that we knew them before we even came here. What an experience

(back row) Sisters Richardson; Jones; Boehrer; Richards; Larsen; Kunz

(front row) Nickerson; Mills; Mortensen; Pascoe; Dittman; Mortensen; Wilson

(back row) Elders Boehrer; Mills; Nickerson; Richardson; Wilson; Pascoe; Kuna

(front row) Jones; Dittman; Mortensen; Richards; Wilson; Adams

First Day of Training

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:03:00 +0000

Well, today was the first of three days of training for the Pascoes. What a great couple!. Elder Pascoe is very smart and so easy to work with. He always knows just what to say and has a lot of wisdom. Sister Pascoe is very smart also and picks right up on what needs to be done. They will be a great addition to the office.

I put a picture of my beautiful nieces on the blog because I love how much they remind me of my sister Lynette. She would be so proud of what they have accomplished. She used to call designate them as Anna and Maria – “the Olders”; Julie and Vicky – “the Middles”; Laura and Lyndy – “the Youngers”. Funny!! Between them they have twelve – which makes Lynette a grandma twelve times – something that she would have loved. I will always be so grateful for the relationship I have with her daughters.

Anna, Maria, Julie, Vicky, Laura, Lyndy

It is raining cats and dogs here in Maryland. We are having a massive thunder and lightning storm and it is wild! It is beautiful to watch but very dangerous to be out in. The weathermen have said that we need to stay off the roads and get inside. We are here in the Holiday Inn Express and very safe – thank goodness!

Getting to know the Pascoes

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Tonight we had dinner at the Jones’ home with us and the Pascoes. We had such a good time. The Pascoes will be such a great addition to the office. Elder Boehrer and I can leave and know that all will be well. Tomorrow is the first day of training. Exciting!!!

Some random pictures of us all visiting.

Moving Day

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:50:00 +0000

Oh My Gosh!!!! This is only part of our ‘stuff’

Well, we truly didn’t realize just how much we had accumulated in fourteen months time. After giving away three bags of stuff, and mailing four boxes home, we still have a packed car. We are now at the Holiday Inn Express in Columbia. Tonight we ate at Bones Deli with the Jones’ and Larsens’. Both couples helped us move. What would we do without the help of our senior couple friends? We have so enjoyed all of our fun times together. We are staying at this hotel until probably Wednesday, then we take off for the West Coast and home (after a few stops along the way).

Getting Packed

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 01:44:00 +0000

Today I got my prescriptions filled, did some more work at the mission office and then came home early to pack. We hope to be moved into the hotel tomorrow night. The Ellicott City Sisters want to help us move in the Pascoe’s Saturday evening.

Life is good, but very busy!

Our Last Transfer Meeting

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:23:00 +0000

(back row) Elders Pedersen; Frehner; Cragun; Van Dam (front row) Elders Boehrer; Sister Boehrer; Elders Chamber; Fast; President Richards; Sister Richards; Elders Braulio; Pitt; Larsen; Tiatia

Today was our last transfer meeting. Due to all of the new arrivals, thirty-one, the meeting was HUGE. Elder Boehrer and I, along with the ten other departing missionaries, bore our testimonies. NOTE: In some religions (most notably Mormonism and Islam) many adherents testify as a profession of their faith, often to a congregation of believers. In Mormonism, testifying is also referred to as "bearing [sic] one's testimony," and often involves the sharing of personal experience—ranging from a simple anecdote to an account of personal revelation—followed by a statement of belief that has been confirmed by this experience. Within Mormon culture, the word "testimony"^[3] has become synonymous with "belief." An individual who no longer believes in the religion is referred to as having "lost their testimony."

It is bitter sweet leaving the mission to return home, we will miss our ‘mission family’ but we are very excited to reunite with our family at home.

lder Herzog & Elder Boehrer Two 49er Fans

Just part of the stuff we need to have for the new arrivals

Sisters Dittman and Richards and Kunz

Love these missionaries – Plumb; Fast; Goodell; Sisters Richards;Crawford;Bailey;Montes’Bailey;Gates

Elders Orr; Plumb;Boehrer;Salazar;Rodriguez;Brand;

Elders Martinelli; Farr; Boehrer;Brand;Gates;Elders Spears;

Sisters Fullmer;Chandia;Bailey

Sisters Newman;Brown;Frehner;Chafin;Tiatia;Oates

Sisters Larsen; Richardson; Elders Santiago;

Elder Mathews One of my favorites

Our Last New Arrival Group

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:24:00 +0000

June Arrivals

Tonight Elder Boehrer and I experienced our last new arrival group. Yep, we never again in the Maryland Baltimore Mission be at a new arrival night at the Richards. We enjoy meeting the new missionaries and getting to know them. One of the best parts of the evening is hearing each of the missionaries’ testimonies. They are so excited to be in the mission. They have a lot ahead of them. Most will make it, but some will not. That is the way of life. You learn so much on your mission and one of them is to learn how to be obedient. That can be a hard lesson. “Heavenly Father never said it would be easy, but it would be worth it.”

Just clowning around . . . Enjoying a great dinner

Birthday

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:30:00 +0000

My Birthday Lunch

Today is my birthday. Let’s see, I worked at the mission home and had a boatload of work to get done because this week is Transfer Week and we have twenty-none missionaries coming in and a TON of changes in the missionary leadership positions. It all gets done – somehow.

Today I got a lot of “Happy Birthday” wishes from the missionaries, including senior missionaries. It kind of makes up not having my children here today. The day just gets better everytime they come into the office.

The Jones’, Richards’, us and the Assistants all went to lunch at Red Robin. GOSH! I do love that place.

Thunder and Lightning

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 23:02:00 +0000

Springtime Thunderstorm

http://youtu.be/sedSNLc9-VA

I tried to capture a thunderstorm, including lightning. Hopefully you can see it in the above video link. It is beautiful and scary at the same time when we have one of these downpours. I sometimes can’t believe it’s Springtime out here.

The next Springtime activity will be the Cicadas! Oh that’s something we’re looking forward to.

Since it was our last Sunday in this ward, I was asked to bear my testimony. I enjoyed doing that because I feel this church is true. That a young 14 year boy knelt in a grove and asked which church to join and he knew, he was told what to do to start the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I believe that, I know that to be true and it is one of strongest parts of my testimony. How grateful I am for the Gospel and the blessings we have received and continue to receive because of that knowledge. I do hope that my testimony can strengthen others and help them to want to find out more about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Our good friends the Jones’ brought over the BEST homemade chicken, stuffing, asparagus rolled in bacon, hollandaise sauce and some of her super cherry cobbler for dinner tonight. Yep, we do love the Jones’ They are good friends and we will miss them greatly!!!

Home from Hospital!!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 22:47:00 +0000

“Get Better Elder Boehrer!!!”

Yay! Elder Boehrer is home from the hospital and he is back and healthy, well, except for his hip. I so appreciate all of the offers of of help and dinners. And it was especially nice to hear the missionaries ask how Elder Boehrer is doing. We do love our missionary family. When you are serving the Lord and doing His work you can become so busy and yet you always have friends around you to help lift you up, laugh with and feel good about what you are doing.

Tomorrow is Sunday and it will be nice to be in church. That is a place where it doesn’t matter if you know the members or not, you are always welcome.

It is HOTTER than heck outside and even tho’ you can feel the humidity, the heat reminds me of California. I do love the heat and summertime. Our children in California are swimming and playing with their children in the water. I do miss that.

We are where we belong at this time and are trying very hard not to get ‘trunky’. NOTE: Trunky is a term for the feelings you have when you know that you will be going home soon. Your mind and heart turn to home. We try to avoid the trunky feelings because we want to finish our mission completely and not half way. The blessings we have received because of our service are more than we could have hoped for. So grateful.

Bryan and Joshua’s Birthday–May 29th

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 01:58:00 +0000

Bryan and Joshua

Gosh, I so feel so remiss as a Mom and Grandma. It has been so busy with Elder Boehrer’s hip, all the work at the office and yep, taking time for myself, that I totally neglected to put a ‘tribute’ to Bryan and Joshua on my blog for their birthdays. Oh, we talked with both of them on Wednesday, May 29th, but I always like to include my family on the blog too. Bryan has four of our perfect grandchildren – Hailey, Sam, Cali and Jackson. They are adorable. Of course I’m a proud grandma. We are so proud of Josh and his accomplishments. He is the best grandson and is so kind as a big cousin. Thanks for you do Bryan and Josh.