"DON'T BE SAD IT'S OVER, JUST BE GLAD IT HAPPENED AT ALL"

Dear Family and Friends,

Our mission is coming to an end and we can't believe it has been 18 months already. We leave for home in two days and we are giddy with joy. Saying that please don't misunderstand we will be very, very sad to leave South Africa. We love the people dearly and we love the country. Our mission is the best mission in the whole world and we feel blessed to have served here.

We are now in the process of training our two replacement couples, this has been our hope all along to have two couples to cover the vast distances that we have had to travel. It seems that due to the fact we have 7 mission,400 units and 23 countries it's been impossible to be everywhere we needed to be. Even with us traveling 50% of the time and not always in pleasant conditions, we just couldn't be everywhere. Now with them splitting up the responsibilities between two couples it is our hope that twice as much work will get done , as my granny used to say "more hands makes the work load lighter".

Jan finally finished making the 300 blankets and hats she had committed too and finally delivered them last week. It was a lovely sight to see those blankets wrapped around those precious new babies, we won't soon forget the warm "fuzzies" we felt as we saw the smiles those blankets placed upon those dear little mothers.

We so appreciate the prayers that you have offered up on behalf of the missionaries serving all around the world, it has given us and all the other missionaries a sense of comfort to know that we are remembered.

We will continue to maintain our blog when we return home to family and friends who are interested in "Bob and Jan's other adventures". We are sure there is much to do and ways to serve when we are once again "civilians". We will be keeping our eyes and ears open to find them.

May God bless you for all you do to further the Lord's work and in helping others along the road in this troubled world.

Love,
Elder and Sister Taylor soon to be Bob and Jan once again!