Senior Missionary Couples

Wonderful missionary Sisters. Sisters Allen, Reynolds, O'Neal, Monical, Lee, Smith and Montag.

Pres and Sister Reynolds ....

Senior missionary party, Pres and Sister Reynolds, Pres (ASL) program and Sister O'Neal, Sister Montag (office), Elder and Sister Monical (office), Smith's (Proselyting - Marathon), Elder and Sister Lee (Proselyting - Key West), and Sister Allen (office)

Sister Smith (office), Sister Montag (office), Elder and Sister Monical( Office) Pres and Sister Reynolds, Smiths, Sister Rowe (office) Elder and Sister Dalling. Farewell party for the Monicals and Sister Montag.

Our going away Party

As the time came for us to leave our ASL Branch planned a going away party for us. It was such a wonderful time for us to say good-by. All .... well most all of them were there that Sunday and we had such a wonderful party. For months Pres Smith and I had given and done all the parties and this was fun to attend. They are such wonderful people and we miss them alot.




The Ramirez family, Monica and Alvaro with children Jennifer and Josuha














Nellie, Elizabeth and her mom.











Sisters Ball and Salazar - Hollywood ASL Missionaries. Pres and Sister O'Neal, the missionary we replaced in the ASL program.

Finishers Fireside

Pres Reynolds day of our last interview. All the missionaries who were in our group going home. Three where ASL missionaries, Ball, Wheeler and Waldon. They were awesome missionaries, each of them giving their all to the ASL program.

Sister Natane a wonderful Sister from the Hollywood ward. She was their RS and always included the deaf sisters. They loved her, as did we. Beautiful leis were made by her and given to missionaries who worked in her area, and that she loved. lol

Elder Canfield (our 1st missionary) we loved him and watched him go from Senior Companion to AP. Sister Ball and Monica. The Ramariz family, Sister Steel and the Stake Partiarch and his wife.

Our ASL Missionaries

Christmas 2007 - Miramar ASL Branch

Christmas 2007 was spent in the mission field serving in the Miramar ASL Branch, in Hollywood Florida. We wanted to do something really different for Christmas so we visited with our children about using their Christmas money and use it to serve our Branch. They were all so agreeable, and many even contributed. We planned and prepared a large Christmas dinner, with turkey and ham and all the trimmings. We put together a fruit and veggie box for each member (and several visitors as well) along with some Christmas candies and goodies, and for those who needed extra help with Christmas, Pres. Smith had an envelope for them. After dinner we did our Branch small gifts exchange. It was so much fun to see them all so happy. Spending Christmas away from our family was hard, but it was such a special Christmas spent with our Branch and being able to serve them in that way. We did have a special guest from Utah with us and that really made us happy, thanks JoAnn for spending the day with us. :) Our newest member (Stacy - baptised in Oct) was asked to put on the Christmas Program .... it was simple but wonderful. I was so proud of her.

Members in Our Branch

David and Elizabeth Toledo with Sister Missionaries and Elizabeth's mother.
Taken when D & E got married














All the Sisters in the Branch













Pres. and Sister Smith with Nellie Loftus













Sister Missionaries Ball and Salazar













Carla Pope and Sister Ball













All the men in the Branch with Pres Smith













The Branch and our Missionaries at our "Finishers Fireside"

Our Branch Temple Trip

As our time in the mission was coming to close, President Smith began to think alot about the wonderful members of our Branch and wondered how he might help them to be able to attend the temple. He had had several interviews with them and he knew their desire to have a recommend and be able to attend the temple, and in two cases to be married. We had a fellow (David) in the branch who was engaged to a young lady from New York (Elisabeth) and they needed the temple prep classes. We had a family (Alvaro and Monica Ramirez and their children Jennifer and Joshua) who were converts of almost a year and they wanted to be married in the temple and have their children sealed to them. We had an older sister (Diane Smith) who had been a member for several years and had never been to the temple. We also had another new convert (Stacy Steele) who had never been to the temple to do baptisms for the dead, which is an awesome experience for all new converts. All of this was a concern to him, he wanted to leave the mission and the branch with all who desired to attend the temple able to. It took him several loooooooooooong weeks to complete the temple prep lessons.... it was a slow pace as they each needed to be taught at their own level of understanding. Our temple day was planned for June 7th 2008, and the Branch was prepared ... we desired to have interpreters in the temple with us that the members knew and could relate with. We wanted it to be such a wonderful experience for them. Getting those interpreters was not easy. After many weeks of letters going back and forth between Pres Smith, Pres Reynolds, and the area authorities.... consent was given for our ASL missionaries to make the trip. We took Elders Waldon, and Wheeler and Sisters Ball and Salazar. Elder Lopez a deaf elder who had served in the mission/branch flew in from Utah to be at the temple with us. Transportation is always a problem for the deaf (few have cars) we purchased a second car so that we could make the trip. It was a wonderful day we had 5 members endowed (Diane, Elizabeth, David, Monica and Alvaro) two couples married (David and Elizabeth and Alvaro and Monica) one couple sealed to children (Alvaro and Monica/parents with Jennifer and Joshua/children), and a new member (Stacy Steele) who participated in baptisms for the dead. Many of our other Branch members were there as well. It was a WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL day. :)