Iakwe eok our goodbye

A beautiful end to a wonderful mission-  It's hard to believe that our Marshall Islands mission is over.  We enjoyed a great meal with President and Sister Shaw and the other senior missionaries in the Mission home.




 Afer our last Sacrament Meeting in the Laura Ward, we were given a beautiful, touching Iakwe eok.  We sat in front to the congregation and briefly spoke-thanking them and giving them our love.  After that, the audience sang farewell and love songs to us as they filed up one by one and draped hand make handicraft gifts on us and hugged us to say goodbye.  It was a real tear jerker for us.  We love the great Marshallese People.

 Bishop Thomas gave us a formal thank you.

 We will always love the Laura ward in the Marshall Islands.


Saying goodbye at the airport.  I can't believe that it is over.  Thank goodness for the precious gift of living with and getting to love our Marshallese friends.  We thought we were going to serve but we were the ones who came away with the gift.  Iakwe karere jera ro; Komij iakwe kom!!!