Kasper Sabbatical: November 2009

Kayla's Sealing/ Matt's Wedding

The first week home from our mission was filled with family and events!! Kristina and Erik took their little family to the Idaho Falls temple to have baby Kayla sealed to them. What a wonderful day that was. Kayla was a beautiful little princess and it was a treasured day.

Kayla's sealing was on Friday. Matt and Wendy missed it because they went back to Montana and were sick all week. We thought it was going to be a marriage between "MR Strept and MRS. Strept." They were both so sick.. We were pleasantly surprised when we pulled up to Wendy's place on Saturday afternoon and they were both feeling much better. It was a lovely wedding and we are so happy to have Wendy in the family. Good choice Matt!!! And what a treat to have 2 new grandchildren.

If you want to see more pictures you'll have to be my friend on facebook. I'm posting most of my pictures there from now on...It's hard to keep up with the blog. I'll try to do some....

Thanks to my wonderful family for supporting us in our decision to serve a mission.

Sunday, Homecoming and Sacrament

Sunday the 18th of Oct was our big homecoming day. We spoke in Sacrament meeting in our Victor 2nd ward and many of our friends and family came to hear us. We were greeted again with lots of hugs and love and it felt good. The Krupp family have been very supportive of our mission. We appreciate them coming to the airport and then driving to Victor on Sunday. This is Jeremy and Tara Krupp.

Tia and Jared's mom.

Kelly hanging out!!

Vergie and Delmar

Mariah

Cathy Tea and Kristina

Gaylene, Gay, JaNell, Megan and Patricia

Alex and Erik

Porter Jay

Patricia and James

Monika

Ted, Gaylene and Megan

Cathy and Gay

There were other people but someone forgot to snap the photos!! We were having way too much fun talking!!

Last day as Missionaries

Saturday Oct 17th, 2009 was the last day we were missionaries.

we spent it with some of our family. Just looking at them and enjoying being with them. This is Matt with his fiance Wendy. They are getting married 1 week from today. (Oct 24, 2009) We are pleased with Matt's choice. Wendy has 2 darling little girls, Madison and Kailyn.

In the later morning we went with Rebecca to Keayen's "Flag Football game." It was fun to watch him run and try to steal the flag from the pockets of the opposing team. Good job Keayen

Becca and Elder Kasper watching Keayen's game.

Elder Kasper (Grandpa Ted) with Keayen after the game.
After the football game, Tia drove us to Victor and we dropped of our luggage at our home. Then we went directly to the stake presidents office in Driggs to be released from our mission. It felt very sad to take off the badge and officially be released. It brought a tear to my eye as I thought of all our friends in India. We will treasure the time we spent there and always love the dear ones that took us in and cared for us and loved us like we were there family. We love you.... our friends.....our brothers and sisters in India.

OUR WELCOME HOME

From India we flew to Frankfurt Germany and then on to Denver Colorado. We missed our flight out of Denver. The mission booked our tickets to tightly for us to make the plane. We only had 1 hour and we had to pick up our luggage and then go through customs. They did get us on the next flight out and we made it to Idaho Falls airport at 10:30 instead of 8:30. These were some of the happy faces that greeted us.

They were holding signs that said "Welcome Home."