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Elder Nelson - Transfer Week

Dear Family,

Mission News
Monday we took Elder Spencer to the airport. He is off to the Ukraine.

Tuesday we (mainly Sister Chesbrough) fed the new missionaries a macaroni bar lunch. It was delicious. Everybody loved it.

Macaroni Bar – It was very good!
This is a picture of the Macaroni Bar with a close up of the deserts.
Elder Downs-Vehicle Coordinator, Sister Larsen-Referral Secretary, Elder Larsen-Housing Coordinator
Sister Chesbrough-my super helper, who loves to cook, Sister Downs-mission nurse, Elder Downs-vehicle coordinator.
We had 2 visa waiters stay the night with us on Tues-Thursday. We took them to the consulate in Washington DC and had a 10 minute meeting with the Ambassador from Ecuador.

This was a stressful week with the phones. A lot of phones got switched around. Phones had technical problems. One phone was run over by a car. Another was lost. It took me 4 days to get SIM card activated for one set of missionaries that needed a new phone.

There was an incident that appeared to clearly show that some missionaries were accessing sites that they shouldn’t. But after 5 hours of investigation including talking with the missionaries who had used the phone, I concluded there was no “unsafe” behavior. The software on the phone was the source of the problem. That discovery made my day!

Fun Stuff
Saturday I slept in and took a couple of naps. That felt good. We also went for an hour walk in the woods.



WES News
We passed our ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 audits with no findings.

My partner has not responded to my proposal yet. I guess he did not like it.


Family News
Lance’s family had a great spring break at the Ranch with Amanda’s twin Matt and his family. Amanda caught her first fish ever at the Ranch. Emma was a speed demon on the “mule”.

Keri went to Emily’s wedding in San Diego with Maggie. She had a wonderful time.
Emily is holding the bouquet, Keri and Maggie are in the middle, on the ends are former roommates Abby and Ashley with her son Wyatt.
Love,
Dad

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