This morning we only spent an hour at the Library, just enough time to alphabetize the children's books. You sure can tell where the little hands like to roam! Afterwards, we went to the graduation ceremony for Brother Gilmore who had been attending the Captain's Career Course. We had just learned on Sunday that his follow on assignment is Kuwait. He will be gone for a year from his family. His wife and children will return to Arizona to be near family; they will all be able to give her the support she will require. They are a Navajo family. His father is Navajo, his mother is Caucasian. Directly from this graduation, we dashed to the hospital to attend Brother Stewart's graduation from X-ray tech school. He was the only graduate in his class, a class of one! However, he had lots of friends there from the Stake YSA group. He is one of the young men who received his Patriarchal Blessings a couple of weeks ago.

From the hospital, we dashed over to Sister Janssen's home. She was baptized about 3 months ago; we took her and her daughter Salena to lunch. Her husband is deployed, she recently returned from a nice vacation, and will go again the middle of August; we wanted to make sure she knew we loved her and were thinking of her. We had a nice time with her.

Our 4 o'clock appointment was cancelled, so we went home for a while and did our monthly report for the Church Military Relations Department, then we headed back up to post to visit the Mathews family. Sister Mathews has decided to be baptized on 10 August at 1630. We will be to the temple that day, but should be back in time to attend the baptism. We are so excited for her and the entire family as they come unto Christ. From the Mathews, we went to visit Brother Tidwell. He is a med student here at Fort Gordon for just a month, which is already up. He will be leaving on Saturday.

Here are some photos from today's graduations:

 Graduation reception line

 The Gilmore Family

 Brother Stewart

Brother Creswell, the YSA Adviser and Brother Stewart