Elder Cannon

Elder Cannon was on splits with Elder Halliday in our ward, so I finally got to see him!

Elder Halliday took our picture above, as well as this "behind the scenes" one of Len taking a "groupie" of us for facebook.  In Leonard's words:

The Long-Expected Meeting

Finally got together with Spencer Cannon, son of our good friends Lincoln and Dorothée.  He's currently serving a mission here in Ottawa (part of the Montreal mission).  I met his parents when we were all serving in the France Marseille mission and they were among Jen and my best friends when we lived in Utah.  We had hoped to surprise him back in November, and here it is in March.  Better late than never.

I will add that Spencer was raised bilingual speaking both French and English as his mother is from France and his father is American.  I remember seeing the video of him opening his mission call.  When he saw that he was going to the Canada Montreal mission he didn't seem too surprised, since they speak French there.  He was then ultimately surprised when he read the next line that said, "Mandarin speaking."  He is serving in another ward in our Stake, where the Chinese speaking Elders serve in Ottawa.  It was so great he was able to go on splits in our ward so we could see him.  However, since he and his companion are the only Chinese speaking Elders in the city, they can go to dinner appointments in any ward, so we'll be having him and his companion over for dinner soon too.  I think it's so cool that he and Leonard can speak to one another in THREE languages!

On Wednesday, we had Elders Purahui and Halliday over for dinner.

On Thursday, we did the same for Elders Cannon and Hsiung.

Now we need to have the Sister missionaries over.

A couple of weeks later we had Sister Johnson and Sister Austin over for dinner.

We love the missionaries!!