On Sunday, April 30th, Landen gave his farewell speech at Church. On Monday, he was set apart as a full-time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Today (May 2nd, 2017) he left our family and home here in Idaho Falls and flew away to begin his mission. He is set to fly from I.F. to SLC to NYC to Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. He will stay in the MTC there for 6 weeks and then fly to San Juan, Puerto Rico for the remaining 22 1/2 months of his mission.
We look forward to hearing that he arrives safely and to begin recieving his weekly letters home. This blog will now contain two posts a week, one for each of our missionaries. Please feel free to follow the blog, or to follow along on our family's journey with missionary work. We appreciate all of the many prayers offered for our children as they are living and serving so far away from us. We love the Church and are grateful to be members in it.
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| (At Freeman Park, where he ran so many cross-country races. Photo Cred: Thomas Groberg Photography) |
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| At home, where he lived from age 10 till 17 (photo cred: Thomas Groberg Photography) |
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| There were some serious ones with the Puerto Rican flag that looked really nice, but this one captured his goofy-ness! (Photo cred: Thomas Groberg Photography) |
At the Idaho Falls airport saying goodbye to Landen on May 2nd, 2017 (with a stop at Reed's Dairy and the Greenbelt on the way):
Just got the very first email from him today, so glad to know he made it safely there. (Also, I hope this is not an indication of the length that his letters home will be!)
5/3/17
Mis Padres,
I made it. I'm safe, just melting. P-days are Thursday, but you won't hear from me until next week.
chao,
Elder Bailey
So fun. It is so cool to have two gone at once.
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