Tender Mercies

We experienced a tender mercy this morning. During the first week in the MTC the Senior Couples study Preach My Gospel. Sometimes we are all together, other times we split up into our districts to have morning and afternoon classroom instruction.  When we arrived this morning we sat right behind our District Leader - Elder & Sister Keyes from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. We told them we had served our last mission in the Montreal Canada mission and spefically in Cornwall. Sister Keyes just BURST into tears and told us that is where Elder Keyes father lived. Turns out that his Father - Glenn Keyes was the man who's home we would teach in each Monday night on our mission and he would also feed us dinner. He took us around to see many sights and just was the most wonderful man! The week we left the mission field, we heard that he had slipped and fallen on the ice and hit his head & died.  Now, 2 years later, who is our District Leader? His son from the other end of Canada!!! They told us that they had often heard from Glenn how much he loved us and how he loved holding the Book of Mormon Class in his home because he was a widower and very lonely.  What a blessing to meet them. They are headed for BYU-Hawaii. He will work in their Mental Health Dept. as that is what he did for a profession.

Our morning group was wonderful. We had the Keyes, pictured above... Then the Calderwoods, from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho - heading for Auckland, New Zealand (she's in the red shirt below), and the Vincents, from Alpine, UT, heading for Portland, Oregon. Our teachers were wonderful too. On the first day we met Sister Smith - (one with very blonde hair below) - turns out she served her mission in the St.Paul/Minneapolis Mission with the Husteds. They worked together in the YSA wards- chinese program. Sister Baer (the one with the long redish/brown hair below) and Sister Yazzie - the dark haired one. She was actually more in our afternoon classes, but we got one of her with the morning teachers.

Here is a shot of our district with our afternoon teachers: Brother Rowe & Sister Yazzie
Left to right: Brother Rowe, The Vincents, Us, Sister Yazzie, The Calderwoods & the Keyes.