This past week has been AMAZING!!!! We just finished giving a "Meet the Taggart", 2 hour meeting, six different days.  It ends up being an all day event with travel, set up and down, talking after then taking some of the stragglers to lunch.  Sophie is going to have a "burn the talk ceremony".  It's hard to give the same talk 6 times and keep it fresh. But it has been so awesome meet all the missionaries! We all just immediately fall in love with them! We have seriously gained 270 more family members! We are all still struggling with names but luckily they have the name tags so we can cheat a little bit! We only wish that we could have spent more time with each of them so that we could have really gotten to know them! 

It is also so interesting how different each zone is! Some have so much energy and spunk, others are really reverent, others have a witty side to them, and some were really quiet. All were amazing in their own way and brought different things to the table! It was also really cool to see my dad teach using the spirit. You could tell that each zone needed to hear a different thing, because although he had planned the same thing for each meeting, everyone was very different.  I have loved watching him really lean on the spirit. How blessed am I to have such an amazing example as a dad?  

This is zones 7 and 8.  (we forgot to take pictures with the other zones.. whoops..) We live in this zone, so Emily gets to do P day activities with these guys. They are all awesome! 



Emily missed the last two Meet the Taggarts to go to youth conference.  A picture says a thousand words... obviously she had fun! She is really thriving here and is SO happy! Already making a lot of great friends and is excited for the rest of the summer! 

Interviews start tomorrow for President and Sister Taggart so they are super busy for the next two weeks, but are excited to be! They can't wait to get to know all these amazing missionaries better! On the other hand Sophie and Emily are excited to be able to go in New York City a couple times this week and go explore with Lara and Todd Wells who just got here tonight and will spend the week with us! 

We appreciate your prayers and honestly can feel them!! Love and miss you all!