Julie and David Monson came here in March. They took the place of our good friends, the Rich's. David became ill right after he arrived and at one point collapsed and had to be taken to the hospital. Julie has been very worried about his health. They will be doing more testing this week so all of us are praying for the outcome to be good. She and I have hit it off quite well and I go out to Bad Homburg to see how she is doing from time to time. They both serve in the finance department. They are wonderful people. David was a Congressman from Utah and also the Lt. Governor of Utah. They lived in Washington DC for a while and also lived in China while they taught for BYU. They are fascinating people and Julie is just plan fun!
Each Wednesday at noon we hold a Book of Mormon discussion with all the senior missionaries. The Rich's were in charge and when they left we were put in charge. Tony does a wonderful job of running our meeting. I look forward to this day each week. We have different missionaries that are assigned to lead the discussion each week and they are all great with wonderful insights in the scriptures.
Paula and Randall asked us to go out to dinner with them to celebrate Paula's birthday. They are great friends and we have had fun time getting to know them. They have been here for three months. We ate at a little Thai restaurant not far from our apartment.
Tony works with the Visa's for the missionaries. He works hard to keep them legally in the countries that they serve in. Diane and Mike Wilkens are serving in Belgium and it was quite a trial to get them their residency permits to be able to stay in the country for 23 months. Tony worked with the Belgium officials for 3-4 months and finally he got it all worked out. The Wilkens were so appreciative of his work that they drove from Belgium to come and meet Tony and they brought us some Belgium Chocolates. It was wonderful to meet them. Diane is a former Judge in Utah and Mike served on the Utah Supreme Court.
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