This morning we picked up two of our Elders and drove up to Columbia for a  meeting with President Holm and all the other Military Relations Missionaries. There are four of us couples serving such missions here in the South Carolina Columbia Mission. One couple at Fort Jackson, one at Shaw AFB, one at the Naval War Station and us at Fort Gordon. President Holm wanted to have a powwow with all of us to share ideas of how best to help our troops, particularly those who are alone, without family. So we discussed many things and at the end we set some goals, came away with many good ideas to pursue and some further clarification on our duties.

This evening we resumed going out and meeting the families in the area. This evening we met a young man that reminded us of our own son, Adam. We also met a fellow who attended nursing school at the same school where Karen graduated from, Westminster College. She though that was pretty cool. We have a lot of great people in the area who serve in various branches of service, not just the Army. We have met Army and Navy and we know there is Air Force and Marines around too.