March 21st - Last Night in the Mission

We've done our best, and given it our all.  Our missions are finished.  We are quite literally exhausted, mentally, emotionally and physically.  We want with all our hearts to stay here in our comfort zones, and be missionaries in the Utah Salt Lake City Mission for the rest of our lives.  On the other hand, we cannot wait to get on with life, to return to our families, our schooling, our jobs, dating and finding eternal companions.  Our  temple day and the departing lunch out is over.  The Dead Zone is dead.  Transfers are finished and the new missionaries have taken the places where we used to be.  The families and friends in the Salt Lake Valley that we have taught, and lived with, and become a part of, and loved - have been visited, and hugged and promised visits and Facebook friending.  Our departing testimonies have been offered.  Our suitcases are packed.  Our flights leave in the morning.  So what is there to do?

Go to the mission home, play ridiculous games and stay up all night talking, of course!

Formerly known as Sister Mousseau: 

 Formerly known as Sister Long:

Formerly known as Elder Shapcott:

 Formerly known as Elder Freitas:

 Formerly known as Elder Green:

Still known as Elder Purcell.  What will we do with him?!?!?!

Formerly known as Kate Winslet in Titanic

Speak no evil.  Think no evil. Hear no evil.
 

Hey, Macarena!

A night at the opera

?????

Elder Larson's best imitation of one of the Seven Dwarfs.

A genuine Shapcott smile!

Think really hard....

Has anyone seen my duck?

So I'll grab him, and you punch him in the face!

Ready for that really amazing ballet move?

GO!

Please let him hit the 8 ball in the corner pocket...

This is how you do the happy dance

 And this is how to put your contacts in

 It was a really big scary monster!

 With a mouth this big ready to eat me!

 Tomorrow I'm going home and find a wife and get married and she'll have a baby!

 "There was a little house in the middle of the woods..."

 "Safe!"

 And pretty soon we were all laughing hysterically just because we were soooo tired,
so we went to bed.

More pictures of last night in the mission, click here:

2012.03.21: Departing Missionaries Last Night In the Mission