GOOD BYE TO OUR MISSIONARIES!

Our Missionaries that live with us are going to INDEPENDENCE. After 21 months at our home they are hitting the road to finish their mission in the office. So I guess I'll recap the last almost 2 years! We've had a lot of missionary opportunities because of housing the missionaries. One- we have made a lot of new friends. Lisa and Rodney Henson, Katie and John Rice, Richelle and Dane Phillips and MEGAN (our adopted daughter) Many Dinners at our home for investigators and members (that we hope to continue!) Stepping out of our comfort zone a little. Mr Clark will tell you that it has helped me be BOLD in sharing the gospel! At times we wondered if the missionaries came just to help Clark and I! Yes it was a rough 2 years for Clark, Health Wise.... And I would have had several come apart's if it hadn't been for Sister Albaugh having a good listening ear! She helped me be brave when it came to wound care. Ahhhhh ever packed a cave in your skin. Never thought I could but I did it. WoooHOOOooo! AND let alone giving and changing IV's everyday for 2 months. The last little episode with Mr Clark shows how much help they were to us. The 10:30 knock on their door asking Elder Albaugh to give Clark a Priesthood Blessing and assistance to the car as we loaded him up and went off to the ER. Oh, or the assistance at the hospital when Mr. Clark had his Heart Cathe. When family wasn't available they were there. We were talking last night about all our fun at the dinner table when the girls ganged up on the guys or visa,versa! We will miss our meal conversations! All the times when I went to Utah and Sister Albaugh pampered Mr. Clark. Making sure he was fed and had taken his meds. AND surviving the tornado threats together. With Elder Albaugh hooking up our house to our generator with his ELECTRICIAN EXPERTISE. We never went without any inconveinence We have been blessed by having them here. Mr Clark is already getting emotional. He says, "I'm ready to go home" to Utah that is. I never realized what comfort Mr. Clark felt with them in our home. (I think he's just worried to be alone with me) LOL! Seriously, we have recognized so many miracles. And God's hand in other people's lives. Including our own. Thanks to the blessing hosting the missionaries. And now we are gearing up for the next set of missionaries. Wondering, what experience's they will bring. We will miss the Albaugh's but pretty sure we will continue to share friendships for a life time. For that reason it was worth it! Today Sunday, the missionaries had a couple they have been working with this entire time come to church. It was a good goodbye tribute to their friendship they have built with the Knisley's. What a way to say goodbye... The missionaries were so thrilled. And our house is QUIET...