Special Visits

This summer we were lucky enough to have two special visitors - first up was Elder Benson! Of course it's been awhile since he was officially a missionary but he'll always be Elder Benson to us. He and his girlfriend were in New York for a wedding and decided to drive down to Baltimore to see his old stomping grounds. Thank goodness that included a quick visit with us! We made some dessert since no dessert was always the running joke when he served in our area...

talked a lot about what he was up to and about their life and future plans and then took plenty of pictures.

Of course the kids fell right back into their comfortable relationship with him...

especially Noah. These two could always get goofy with each other.

While Elder Benson was visiting I sent pictures to Elder Anderson, teasing him a bit about Elder Benson making sure he came to see us. Well, about a week later Elder Anderson contacted me about a possible visit in August...and lo and behold, we got a visit from him too! What a fun time we had catching up with him. (And apparently I wore the same shirt for each visit, haha!)

Savannah always says that Elder Anderson looks like he could be one of my kids. They all do kinda go together, don't they?

Quite the talent these two have!

I don't know if there will ever be another Elder Benson/Elder Anderson duo in our life but these next two have probably come the closest...Elder Mitchell and Elder Clayton. These two missionaries were another wonderful pair and we always had so much fun when they visited with us.

Unfortunately we had to say goodbye to them mid-August but hopefully we'll see them again.

Missionaries are absolutely the best!