Picture Diary

Hello, this is Mary and I wanted to tell Annalisa's adventure from the pictures we received.  So she never said that she would call us, but since Kate did we wondered. She told us that she would skip her P-day because she had to fly out at 2:50am on Tuesday morning to go to her mission.  Jeff and I put our phones right by us and were expecting an early call.  At about 3:00am Jeff said," I think your phone made a noise."  So I checked and there was no call from Sister Jones.  So we went back to bed. Then at about 7:00am a call came to our land line.  Who calls a landline at 7:00am?  It had to be her and it was.  It was soooooo great to here her sweet voice.  She sounded like the same girl and was very happy.  She'd had a lovely week and a half at the MTC and got to travel with her darling companion from the MTC.  She had to leave before we were ready to be done, but that's usually how it goes.  As we have learned with our vast experience of one previous missionary. Then at 7:45am some sweet mom sent us this picture.  

 Then shortly after another sweet person sent this picture.  Then that was it for a few days.  Since she skipped her P-day we didn't hear from her.  We didn't know anything until Thursday.  When another kind couple took this picture and her companion's mother informed us that her companion/trainer is  from Illinois and has been serving since last July.  Then we found out that the couple that took the picture are the Bowman's from our home town. Brother Bowman's brother is Brother Bowman in our ward.  Also the girls were coming to dinner at their house this Saturday.  Sister  Bowman said that they are both sweet beautiful girls.  She also told me what city in California she is in.   It is a lovely, safe, family community of about 100,000 people.  Sister Bowman in my ward also called me to tell me that Anna would be eating at her in-laws. 

 So, this is what I know.  Annalisa did make it to California. She is serving in a safe, family community. She has a sweet companion from Illinois and she will eat dinner at the Bowman's at 5:00pm on Saturday.  They can try to hide, but our LDS network will find the missionaries.