OGC dinner at Nelsen's - Good bye Thomas's

Janet and Jeff Nelsen (ALC - Area Legal Council) often have our group over for dinner when new missionaries arrive and also when missionaries come to the end of their 18 month missions.  David and Paula Thomas are dear friends and our next door neighbors and will be leaving for America on Monday March 5th.  They share the office right next to Tony and myself and we talk and work together every day.  They will be extremely missed.  They didn't tell us how difficult it would be to say good bye to friends we make over here.  Luckily, the Thomas's live about 25 minutes from our home in Utah and we will see them again.  We will miss them for the remainder 10 months that we have here.  Davids career took him to BYU as a professor of Law at the J. Rueben Clark Law School.  He actually was a first year professor when Tony started his law school career but never took a class from David.  We are excited for them to reunite with their family as they are packing and getting ready for their departure.

 Janet Nelsen, who's home we are visiting......she made David's favorite meal.....Beef Tenderloin, roasted potatoes, salad and pie for dessert.  We have appreciated her efforts in keeping us all a close "community" as we serve for the OGC.  The Fager's are sitting next to Janet.  They arrived just a month ago and are loving it here.  They are getting used to the routine really quickly and we have enjoyed getting to know them.

 The Robert's took a trip to Brugge in Belgium with the Orlowski's this weekend so they are not here for this dinner.....they were missed.  The Robert's will be leaving us in April .... on the 15th.  I don't like this part of our mission.  It doesn't seem like we've been here that long and already our friends that we've made and traveled with and worked with are going home!

 But, even tho' these wonderful friends leave, we have new people coming to serve and as we have found, they will be wonderful people to get to know also!  The Call's from California will be coming soon after the Thomas's leave and we look forward to meeting them and showing them around and having them as our new neighbors.