Some of Our New Friends

President and Sister Shamo live in South London where they preside over about 180 missionaries.  Walt and I actually attended Dixie Jr. College in St. George, Utah in the late 60's with President Shamo.  We've become well acquainted with both of them over the past 6 months.  This photo is from one of the garden areas at Hampton Court.  At this location the "hand picked" scriptorians and theologians met 400 years ago to work on a new translation of the Bible which today we know as the King James Version.

Walt and I spend  some of our preparation days with Jim and Janet Williams from the Missionary Training Center (MTC).  We have the opportunity to visit nearby places of interest.  They are great to travel with.  We also interact with them every 3 weeks when we process in new missionaries.Their missionary assignment is to support and serve with President and Sister Walker full time at the MTC.  They have previously served as Mission President and wife over the Denmark Mission.  Jim is a former head of rheumatology at the U. of U. in Salt Lake City.  Walt appreciates having another physician to talk over health concerns of the missionaries.

In order to register all the new missionaries in the National Health System we rely on the help of Dr. Angela Robb and her husband Dr. Graham Robb.  We were able to enjoy a quiet night out at a restaurant in Preston.   

They have 2 sons who are involved in various activities.  We hope to see the younger one play rugby in 2012.

This is an older picture from our Missionary Training days in Provo, Utah.  I show this because we were so thrilled to meet up with the young man who helped us for about 2 months before we left our home in Pasco.  Brayden had received his mission call to Brazil but wasn't to leave until 2 weeks after us.  He was scheduled to enter the Mission Training Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil but his visa didn't come through in a timely manner so he was sent to Provo.  Yeah, we got to interact a little during mealtime just before we headed  to the UK!