Sunday, February 20, 2011

Our Mission Adventure is Ended - We Are Home in Prosser Washington, USA

Our Mission is ended.  We left for our home in Prosser, Washington on January 13, 2011, taking the 11:40 train from Ulan-Ude to Irkutsk and spent the night with President and Sister Rolfe the senior couple in Irkutsk.  On 14 January we flew from Irkutsk to Moscow to New York to Minneapolis to Pasco Washington, then by car to Prosser, Washington our home.  The trip took approximately 50 hours.  We very much miss our Ulan-Ude family.  A few photographs are shown below.  Please double click on photo to enlarge.

Some of out friends in Ulan-Ude that came to visit the us before we left.  Top left:  President and Sister Baldakov.  Top right: Andy, our closest friend in 3-group English Club.  Bottom  left: Vanya  very special young man.  Bottom Left:  Iour, a person who wants to become a missionary.

At the Vauxhall (Train Station).  Top L-t-R: Our luggage with Elders Capps, Stewart, and Brightwell.

At home in Prosser, Washington with Family.  Top, L-t-R:Brother & Sister Moleff with 4 of their grandsons.  Sister Moleff's mother, 2 brothers, her sister and grandsons.  Bottom left: Son Eric with 4 of his nephews.  Right:  Sister Moleff with brother, mother our 2nd son and his boys.

In Idaho with family:  Top Left: Youngest daughter, her husband and her youngest daughter.  Right: Granddaughters Kennady and Emrie.  Bottom left: Oldest daughter and her family.  Bottom right:  Sister Moleff out with oldest daughter snowshoeing.  It was a great day for being out in the forest.

At the Kennewick Stake Center reporting to the Stake President and High Council.  Notice the name tags are gone - was hard to take them off.

At our Prosser, Washington Home.  Bottom right - the day we gave out homecoming talks.  Lena, on Ulan-Ude did a beautiful job on Sister Moleff's outfit and Brother Moleff's tie. 

COMING HOME FROM A MISSION IS HARDER TO DO THAN GOING ON A MISSION.  PART OF OUT HOME AND HEARTS WILL ALWAYS BE IN THE NOVOSIBIRSK MISSION AND ESPECIALLY IN ULAN UDE, SIBERIA, RUSSIA.

1 comment:

Dedre said...

and we are so happy to have you home. :) I bet it's been hard coming back though. I remember how hard it was for brent and berniel...I imagine your is even worse!