New Mission President

Introducing the new mission president and his wife, President and Sister Smedley. We will be meeting these folks in just two weeks (unbelievable!) when we go to pick Ben up from the Mission Home. They have invited us and other missionaries' families to dinner on Friday evening, after which they will release Ben to our care until he returns home to Spokane for his official release by President Tait from the Spokane Washington West Stake.

The Adventures of Flat Christopher

from email date July 14, 2009

(We had mailed "flat Christopher" to Ben at the end of April...)

hey, i just got "flat" christopher in the mail yesterday...that took awhile. there were two stamps on the front of the envelope that said "mail missent to boroko papau new guinea" so i'm guessing that had something to do with the delay, huh? :) i checked the address you wrote and there was nothing wrong with it, so i wonder what happened...oops. anyway, i took a couple pictures with the cutout just a second ago next to the independence monument here in downtown phnom penh, and i emailed them to you. i noticed that they wanted them back if not by may 1st as the due date said, at least before the end of the school year, and not smack dab in the middle of summer vacation. maybe christopher's 3rd grade teacher will have some use of it? ;)