I sound like a broken record when I say that our mission is really going by quite fast.  Today is June 29th which is so hard to believe.  This month we missed Father's day, Ellie's birthday and Cami and Nate's anniversary, which is today.  We understand that the grandchildren are growing so fast!  The pictures we receive from home are amazing of what is going on!  We miss that time with the family.  However, it is very busy here.  We spent the month of June with preparations for the new President, training Elder and Sister Miles on office duties, having MLC (missionary leadership council), transfers of new in-coming missionaries and saying goodbye to missionaries leaving, and saying goodbye to the Castros.  I was looking at pictures of Hannah and Samuel when they first came to the mission with their parents and they were so small.  Now, Samuel is as tall as his father and Hannah as tall as her mother.  They left the mission on Saturday - Elder and Sister Truman drove them to the LA airport.  They were closer to Elder and Sister Truman than any of us because the Truman's will spend all of their time with the Castros.  President and Sister Castro picked up President and Sister Felix at the Santa Barbara airport on Friday morning.  We met President and Sister Felix on Friday about 5:00 for a few minutes. The Trumans will leave on Monday to go back to Las Vegas.  We will miss  them a lot.

We have also been attending our new ward in Ventura - the Ventura 1st ward.  They are a great ward and the dentist and his family that we go to is in that ward.  They are excited to have 6 missionaries attending there now.  The 4 young elders and then us! 

Here are some pictures from last month.  The hallway with the packages show Elder Miles and Elder Truman looking at them.  These are packages that can't be forwarded to the missionaries because they come either UPS or FED EX and we just have to keep them until MLC when the zone leaders can take the packages back to the missionaries in their zone.  The packages also include their supplies that they have ordered for proselyting.

I tried to get a picture of the Castros, but there were too many people.  Below, Sister Castro is in the lavender sweater - we see her back! And, you can see part of President Castro's face to the side of her head.  You can tell that I was used to getting in trouble when I wanted to take a picture - so these aren't very good.  You know how I hate to get in trouble!!!

The picture below - is a picture of what the parking lot looks like at transfers when members help get missionaries from one place to another.

I will now do Sister Truman's job and Elder Ruse will stay doing cars.  I hope I am up to the Task of doing her job!  Only time will tell.....