Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Elder Carroll's Farewell


On Sunday, our Ward Mission Leader, Bob Smith, invited us over for what was maybe a Farewell for Elder Carroll.  It was for sure a home teaching visit, Family Home Evening and a Carroll reunion if Elder Carroll made it.  He and his companion, Elder Souday from Tahiti, made it just before the opening prayer.  Hannah played a piano solo.  Elsie tumbled constantly.  Olivia led the singing.  Grandmother Billie is one of my all-time favorite people.  The old Ward Mission Leader, Dave, and his friend, Dave, also came.  Brother Henderson gave a message on setting goals.  The Elders sang a couple of hymns and then the good part:  Emily's famous Hot Fudge sundaes with berries, brownies and bananas. 
Charles Carroll's grandson.
Charles was my classmate through about 4th grade,
 cousin, and friend.

 We haven’t heard if he was transferred the next day or not.  Maybe his farewell was in vain.
Lovely evening regardless.
Oh yes, he brought my Carroll book back.  Bob made sure of that. 
See Blog:  The Visit
11-7-13 

2 comments:

desplingca said...

Elder Carroll (double r double l) looks like a Carroll doesn't he?

JJ said...

The first night he left, I told DeRay he looks just like I remember Charles looked. Billie thought he looked like he had Indian blood in him. We asked him and he said his mother was Italian.