"The envelope -please..." Gary kept the "envelope" until I got back from the Japan trip with Heidi on Sept 26th! I was pretty jet lagged that night- but very happy to have that official letter with the notification that we are going to serve in Germany.

This is our first attempt at setting up a blog. We hope our friends and family will be interested in our experiences in Europe. We will be serving a mission for our church in Frankfurt Germany. We will be there for 18 months-starting in Dec. 2009 and complete our assignment in the summer of 2011.The older photo above is a test of this system and how it will look...It's been 4 years since we've been to Europe! Here we are along the Amalfi coast of Italy in 2005 just before Rachael "Royce's" wedding in Sicily.

We hope to be able to travel from Frankfurt on weekends. There are a lot of countries within a few hours of that central location.