Saturday, April 30, 2011

last get together

We all got together with Phoxay and Blake and had lunch at the cafe paesan, an Italian restaurant in provo. Then we took pictures at the temple grounds.

Just before leaving for the MTC

Our family in front of the temple, before leaving for the mtc.

Grandma Grover

Grandma Grover, excited about Lane returning to serve where her and grandpa served in 1990

Grandpa and Grandma Steel

Last visit to say goodbye to Grandpa and Grandma Steel

Harmony Pennsylvania

Lane at the Susquehanna river where the priesthood was restored, and great revelations were given, like this one in D&C 4

Lane at the Peter Whitmer farm in new york

We went on a church history tour at Lanes request. here are a few photos of some of the sites we visited. Here he is as he accepts this challenge to go ye unto the world and preach the gospel.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Many Are Called

Every Christmas Eve our family has a little Christmas program, each person takes part in the program somehow (tells a story, plays music, sings).

Every year my brother Lane always tells the story the Christmas scout, which we all love. This year it came time for Lane to tell his story and we were all very excited. Then he hands my mom a present and tells her she has to open it because it is part of his story. Right when she opened the present and we all spotted the white envelope the room flooded with tears. LANES MISSION CALL. And the best part…he kept it all a secret, always making comments that sounded like he wasn’t going on a mission anytime soon, little did we know he was waiting for his call the whole time.
Lane was called to the Mozambique, Maputo mission in Africa and will be speaking Portuguese. He leaves April 27 and he is so excited. Jake happened to catch some of the action on tape check it out. This is for you Brittany wish you could have been here.
We are all very excited for Lane and can’t wait to see lots of pictures, maybe he will end up living in something like this….
...or maybe this!