Goodbyes are Hard!

We have had way too many "goodbye" events over the past week, but here are a few pictures I want to post that cover a few of them:

Thea and Will Sunday School Class

Amager Branch Goodbye Reception

Stake President Bernskov, Branch President Henrik Olsen and wife, Hanne

Elders Brown and Neilsen with Elder Parker, Amager Branch

Caleb and Sister Parker going out the door

SUV Council Leaders Morten, Helene, Sarah

Parkers with Will Loftus

YSA Special Sacrament Meeting

Last Morning Walk:  Frederiksberg Castle Garden
We will miss our morning walks!

Copenhagen has lots of statues!

Frederiksberg Castle Garden Walk

Frederiksberg Castle Garden Walk

One last Danish polser!

Love the Danish polsers!

We also had a going away dinner last night with Mission President O'Bryant, Sister O'Bryant, and the Copenhagen senior missionaries.  We had Mexican food and it was great!  Hope to get some pictures of this dinner later.

Since we are flying out in the morning, this just may be the last blog entry actually written from Denmark.  We are excited to return home to see our family and friends, but will greatly miss the dear friends we have grown to love in this wonderful land of Denmark. We were privileged to serve in Aarhus on the Jultand Peninsula for an entire year, and then to transfer to Copenhagen for the last six months of our mission.  An extra blessing we received was to be able to be ordinance workers in the temple here in Copenhagen for the last four months.  We love all of you, our dear, dear friends.

It is hard to say goodbye to the amazing young adults we have grown to love, but also to all the members and missionaries with whom we have been able to serve.  But we have Facebook and airplanes! The gospel is true and Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer.  We can be friends forever.  What a wonderful time to live and to serve!