Jorja went to two farewells today. Ambassador friend Luke who is going to Washington D.C. Mandarin speaking and across the hall neighbor Clara who is going to Paris, France. She seemed to have a good time at those. She was a little sad and stressed when she got home. I hope she will be okay this week. She left this evening back to Utah State for another week of USULC. This week she gets to have Alta! She is super excited about that. Her roommate this week is a girl named Livi. We also had a farewell in our ward. Ray and Sara Henderson gave their mission farewell. They will be gone for three years. They were called to serve as Mission President and companion in the Seattle, Washington mission. They get to live on Mercer Island. How cool is that? Avril will spend the rest of her high school years in Seattle. I'm going to miss her, she is so sweet. In Sara's talk she said that sometimes you know when you are getting a calling and everything makes sense. She said this was so far out of the blue they didn't see it coming. Ray is our age, but he was a stake president in California a few years before they moved here. Anyway, after they got the call they were able to look back and see things that prepared them for it. A few months before their daughter, Avril, who is Preston's age randomly came up to them and said, "If dad got called to be a mission president it would be okay." Hahaha - That made me laugh. They are going to be great though! We loved it there. Excited to watch this adventure from a distance.
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