Early June 2013. Time passes so quickly at the MTC.  We met many people who became dear to our hearts as we learned and shared experiences together.

Elder and Sister Skinner are with the MTC Director, Richard Heaton, who was in her MTC group going to the Japan Fukuoka Mission in 1975.  He recognized her first in the hall and invited us into his office where we shared memories. He actually has worked here several years and has a large family.  He spoke in the last Sunday night devotional.

Elder & Sister Clawson...

Elder

Elder & Sister Yamashita....Nagoya, Japan

Elder & Sister Jensen...Salt Lake City (middle)

                                                                                                        

Elder & Sister Fredley...Headed for Mongolia

June 15, 2013
Grand Island, Nebraska
on our way to Ohio

   June 16, 2013
  Kanesville Tabernacle
   Council Bluffs, Iowa

June 17:  We arranged to meet Julia briefly in Madison, Wisconson.

She and Zach were staying awhile with her in-laws in Wisconsin Rapids.

June 18
We are nearing the apartment in west Cincinnati, Ohio

Apartment building where we will be staying now.
Elder & Sister Jarman will be our trainers at the office for the next month or so.

The Assistants arrive at the office...
                   Elder Tolman

Elder Parker

                           Elder Smuin

The Super Assistants...

Elder & Sister Skinner outside the Ohio Cincinnati Mission Office which is in the Western Hills church house in Cincinnati.

We pass the  Catholic St. Ignatius Church everyday on the way to the office.

Crossing the Ohio River into Kentucky.

Sister Porter, mission president's wife, at a get acquainted meeting with the missionaries.

The Porters arrived in the mission the first of July.  The Ohio Cincinnati Mission was still 

part of the Ohio Columbus Mission and the Indiana Indianapolis Mission before then.

          The mission office

Sister Jarman and Sister Nelson in the Finance Room.

Sister Walker typing in the President's office. 

FM Group Manager:
 Bishop David  Nall
 "Our hero on call."
 

President Porter with two assistants Elder Smuin and Elder Parker in the mission office

Site of Larry's ancestral home for the Derbyshire's , now the Quarry on the outskirts of  Laurel, Indiana.

The ancestral Derbyshire home site.
  Laurel, Indiana

Driving towards the Quarry.