Transitions

As our mission winds down, we are going through a period of transitions. 

We took the opportunity this past week on one of our last preparation days to take a trip out east on Long Island. We drove to the city of Riverhead, which is the east most part of our mission here in Long Island.

We spent a few hours with Elder and Sister Holgate, the missionary couple assigned to Riverhead.

The Holgates took us on a tour of the Vineyard areas.

Eastern Long Island is known to be good wine country. They grow lots of vegetables out there too.

The Holgates live in a home next door to the Riverhead chapel with a beautiful large lawn between and surrounding the two buildings. That is a lot different living experience than our living experience here in Brooklyn. Living and working in the city is much different for the missionaries than living and working in the country (The Long Island area). Long Island is a beautiful place.  

We always enjoy watching the weather change as we look out our balcony. Being close to the ocean, the weather changes a lot for us Arizona kids, and we can see the clouds come and go from our apartment.

 One night recently when we were saying our prayers, we heard a pop pop noise outside. We looked out the window and noticed that they were shooting fireworks at the Statue of Liberty. We get fireworks periodically and we are able to enjoy them from our balcony.

This past week was also a sad occasion as we had an unexpected death in the family. Linda's brother Brent's wife Vicky unexpectedly passed away last Sunday. She was just 69 years old.

We flew to Salt Lake City for the funeral. There was a large gathering of family and friends in West Valley City.

Brent And Vicky three lovely daughters will be a great support to him. The funeral was wonderful. We are so grateful for our knowledge of God's eternal plan of happiness.

Linda got to see all of her siblings at the funeral, which was also special.

When we arrived home late Saturday night and we were surprised with vakentinex taped to our front door. These valentines were made and placed by our district missionaries. The missionaries are amused that the Tenneys live in apartment "10E". That was a sweet welcome.

I will likely be released from the Park Slope young adult branch presidency this coming week. I have served as a counselor to Branch President Mark Butler for the past 18 months. He is a native of Provo Utah who has worked in New York City as an attorney for the past 35 years. He is a cousin to Max McInnis of Prescott. 

We have a big week ahead as we will get a new mission president July 1. We are glad we'll get to meet him and his wife before we leave in a few weeks.