Ted and Melinda - 2016

We send our love and greetings to you as we end this year celebrating our Savior’s birth, and we look forward to 2017 with excitement and anticipation.  We have been blessed this year with great family experiences and good friends whom we have enjoyed many fun times.  Our lives have been filled with good health as well as opportunities to serve our Heavenly Father, our wonderful children, and our friends.

As you noted from our Christmas card, we have been called to serve as missionaries at the Brazil Missionary Training Center in São Paulo, Brazil.  We will leave in March to attend the Provo MTC and then on to Brazil.  We acknowledge the many miracles that have transpired in our lives to make this opportunity possible.  We are especially grateful for the four years we spent serving the Young Single Adults in our area.  We loved those young people and know that it was a preparation for our missionary service.  We are humbled by this call and hope that we are up for the intensive Portuguese language acquisition that awaits us in the coming few months (Ted already speaks Portuguese - it is Melinda we are worried about.)

May you be close the our Savior this Christmas season and during the coming year, for we know He is the source of peace and happiness.  We express our love and appreciation to you for enriching our lives and being great examples.