Mission Memories

I have been wanting to get some of my mission negatives put on a CD and decided that this was the day to do it. Here are some photos for memory lane.

Rumsiskes: October 19, 1994

From left to right: S. Perry, E. White, E. Jorgenson, E. Rohrer, S. Ferguson, S. Madsen, S. Hulme, E. Rosenlund
Front: Elder Sumens (Elder Heeder took the picture)

I remember this day at Rumsiskes as one of the best days of my mission. We all met early in the morning and Sister Madsen (Becky) had a tape of Conference from home, and we waited under the street in a walkway to wait for our bus. We listened to Conference and with the echo of the enclosed walkway, that little tape player performed better than you would have originally thought.

Trakai, May 25, 1994

When Firmina (from Vilnius) was baptized, she wanted to be baptized at Trakai, so we traveled from Kaunas to Trakai for the baptism. Elder Dobbs and I traveled with the Folsoms and took the train to Lentvaris. From there we went by bus to Trakai. The bus let us off some distance and I remember walking quite a ways before we reached it. On the way, a black sedan stopped right ahead of us, and an American military man got out and asked if we were LDS missionaries. Turns out, he was also LDS working with NATO and went to visit Trakai on the same day.

Another funny little side note: Along the walk, little shops were selling tourist items, obviously trying to look very Western. The best was a t-shirt shop that sold a shirt with the Lakers and Bulls logo, one above the other. You just can beat those "samizdat" capitalists!

As our luck would have it, we never found the baptism. Since we went separate from the rest of the group, we never found the place where they were having the baptism and missed the entire event.

Elder John Dobbs and Elder Rosenlund

After the tour, we went to Vilnius, visited a member there, Marina, and then went with all the other missionaries to the Vilnius Ballet, Romeo and Juliet.

Sister Folsom at the Gates

As we get more of our pics, you might see them appear up on the blog. For me, it is a ton of fun to see pics of Becky and I as missionaries. It seems like a lifetime ago!