About a third of the mission vehicles are Nissan Rogues. When inspecting cars today I came across the following modification to one Rouge's nameplate.

"May the Force be with you." 

Every six weeks, in conjunction with zone conferences, I inspect mission vehicles while the missionaries are in their meetings.

This is the back of a mission office van that I load with motor oil, antifreeze, windshield washer fluid, candy, inspection forms, air pressure gauges, and tire tread depth gauges.

Sandy helped me with inspections to begin with but we could only do five cars in an hour. She suggested I invite Brother Hill (a newly-called Church service missionary) to help since he is a mechanic. Brother Hill then recruited some of his friends and we did 18 cars in 65 minutes. What a blessing! The brethren from left to right are; Cal Hoddes, Michael Fisher, Alan Hill, Tim Read, and Bill Wright.

Cal and I teamed up and worked together. Two sister missionaries who serve on an Indian reservation came to zone conference with an especially dirty car. They said  they had taught a lesson on Saturday when it had rained, but decided they would have to come with a dirty car rather than wash it on Sunday. After we finished inspections, Cal took their car and washed it. During vehicle safety training with the missionaries, I mentioned what Cal did and noticed those sisters get emotional as I told the story.

On Saturday, June 10, Elder M. Russel Ballard met with all of the Canada Edmonton Missionaries for two hours. Following this meeting a group photo was taken.

Part of my responsibility as vehicle coordinator is to collect a monthly record of the kilometers driven by the missionaries. The Church has a maximum distance that mission vehicles can be driven each month (2010 kilometers/1250 miles). Below is a record, called a Klick Report, submitted by two sister missionaries for the month of May.

In the bottom left corner the sisters reported that they drove 490,576 kilometers during the month. Actually, they drove only 1,389 kilometers. They mistakenly added up the daily ending odometer readings in the left column to arrive at the larger number. This might suggest more training is needed.

Sandy is editor of the mission's monthly newsletter. Below are links to the two newsletters she has published to date.

May 2017 - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B00sXspXWwyGVVF3Mng1LXVwaEU

June 2017 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B00sXspXWwyGdldUUFRFMjdTVGs/view?usp=sharing

Our son, Gavin, took this photo at 40,000 feet off the coast of Florida

Spring weather has finally arrived in Edmonton. Yesterday was the first day since we arrived that I did not have to turn the furnace on in the morning. I did, however, have to turn it on today.