Our Missionaries

It was a busy October, since we said goodbye to two missionaries! My brother Kenton and Kyle's brother Kurt went into the MTC just 2 weeks apart. Kenton is going to Paris, France. Kurt is going to Puerto Rico. We were sad to say goodbye, but a mission is a good reason to go.

I'm thankful that these guys are good examples for my boys. I am thrilled that Noah and Jake will be getting such a good sermon on missionary work for the next two years!

Kurt, reading his mission call: "Peru!!!....oh wait, I messed that up. Puerto Rico!"

Almost-Missionary Kurt at the St. George Temple:

Our goodbyes to Kurt, the morning he drove up to Provo:

We missed out on the MTC send-off experience (which is apparently not much more than a parking lot drop-off), but were able to have a special Campbell family MTC experience planned by Shanna. The whole family was there for the occasion. Hopefully I'll get a picture of the family that night (Ryan and Kari, if you are reading this...hook us up). We love Kurt and we miss him so much. Grammy's house is great, but it definitely seems a lot quieter these days!

And as for Elder Pieper, we were able to spend time with him the last weekend before his mission. We stayed up in Rigby, Idaho with Granny Pie and had some good Pieper fun. Which means we ate a lot of food and played a little Sisco, walked to Ben Franklin, watched some football, and had a little juggling and tightrope-walking show courtesy of Uncle John!

Everybody, including sweet Granny Pie

Noah and Jake with Uncle Elder Pieper
And the five rowdy Pieper children while Christian hits his head on the tree branch