Joe Paul and Conway's farewell

 Joe Paul is the fleet manager for Eastern Canada and the Southern and Eastern United States.  He comes up here every so often to see how things are going and to do training.  He was here for a few days a couple of weeks ago.  He is such a nice guy.  He spent a lot of time with Papa, but also some time with the financial secretary for the mission.  One evening he took us out to dinner.  He is extremely pleasant and we enjoyed our time with him.

 Last Sunday we had a farewell dinner at the mission home for the Conways.  They will leave to go home this coming Wednesday.  The couple above are the Cannons.  Elder Cannon is the father of our mission pres.  They have only been married one year.  Elder Cannon and his first wife served as Mission Pres and wife in Nashville, Tennesse.  They live in SLC now.  He is 86 years old and she is in her 70's and still going strong.  What a great example they are.

 These are the Allen's.  He was an engineer and she stayed at home to raise their 9 children.  They are from Gilbert, Az.  This couple works in the records preservation department at the Quebec Archives.

 The Woodruffs are from Calgary.  He worked for several phone companies for his occupation.  He was in administration.  He is a descendant of Pres. Wilford Woodruff.

 The Bendios are from Orem.  He is a software engineer.

 Here are the Conways again.  I have loved working with both of them.  They are wonderful people and very pleasant to be with all day long, every day.  Elder Conway was a math teacher and also an entrepreneur.  He also has several mobile home parks that he owns and maintains.  Sister Conway was the administrator for an adult education school.  They are from Tooele, Utah.  I will miss them.

Here we have George and Kathryn Jarvis.  They were Mission President and wife in Romania.  As a profession he taught psychology and sociology at several different universities including BYU, U of Hawaii, several universities in Canada and also at Stanford.  She has also taught in the past.  They have homes in both Alberta and in SLC and also have dual citizenship.

   President and Sister Cannon will complete their 3 year term at the end of June.  We have President Patrick and his wife and 4 of their 8 children coming to replace them.  They have served long and hard. I am sure they are quite tired.

The Cheneys spent their life traveling a lot because he was a Colonel in the US Army for 30 years.  Then he worked for 3 years in the Department of Defense.  Now they make their home in Provo.

All of these couples are wonderful and it has been so nice to get to know them.  They are all diligent in their different responsibilities. They all want to serve the Lord the best that they can.   That is what we want to do also.