We arrived in Marathon Florida Jan 31, 2007. We met our missionaries Elder Melser and Elder Canfield the very first day. Elder Canfield arrived in Marathon the same day (transfer day). We came to dearly love and appreciate our missionaries. Marathon was a place that a missionary could come and be as disobedient as they choose to be. We had some of those, but for the most part we had missionaries who really tried to serve the Lord and to do it in spite of the difficult area they had been assigned. It was in Marathon that I came to know the struggles of missionary companionships, it was also in Marathon that I came to best know myself. As missionaries we had alot of time .... 4 missionaries, 45 members, equaled at least for us alot of down time. I thought a mission was all about 10-12 hour days, and highly structured especially for seniors. Marathon gave me a wonderful place to come to know myself. At one point I was so in need of some structure in my mission assignment that I sought some direction from the Mission President. He said if I was unhappy without enough to do, I needed to get a hobby. I thought that over and decided I would volunteer to do for the mission something I knew alittle about. I became the mission cook ..... and I loved it. Roger hauled so many boxes in and out of church buildings. WE LOVED IT!

Elder Melser and Elder Canfield




























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