A Bittersweet Farewell

Last night we sent home our biggest group yet. After a nice dinner together and before our testimony meeting, we had our own 'special ceremony'....which included leaving a little bit of themselves in Poland. Here's how it went....

Elder Daniel Allred. As you can see, this moment was a little bittersweet. He has been serving in Wroclaw and they will miss him.

Elder James Loosli. The former district leader in Krakow. Just after we "cut off the tie" he remembered he sent his passport home two weeks ago. Needless to say he did not fly out the next morning. Instead, he was at the US Embassy getting a new passport and did leave on the same flight, just 24 hours after the rest of his group.

Elder Jesse Handley. He was serving as the Branch President in Szczecin.

Elder Rourk Contor left a tie with 'Poznan' on it. He had served in this city for a year....most of the time as a Branch President.

Elder Brandon Turley...a former Assistant that helped us get over many 'bumps' in the mission. He still makes the best salad in the mission.

Elder Kevin Guthrie. He is also known as the connoisseur of juices, yogurts and panczki.

Sister Stacy Helfrich leaves behind a piece of a sweater that she wore throughout her whole mission. She was in Gdansk.

Sister Whitney Spear leaves the mission having just trained one of our recent arrivals.

Sister Tess Brown leaves behind a piece of a favorite blouse and the city of Katowice where she had just attended the baptism of one of her investigators the night before.

Sister Nicole LeFevre leaves behind a piece of a simple white(?) t-shirt that survived the 'bed-bug' epidemic she and her companion experienced a few months back.

Sister Sydney Pritchett leaves behind the city of Lodz where she was last serving and a piece of a beautiful scarf.

We wish all these former Poland Warsaw Missionaries the very best. We love them all!