Pathway Mission

We completed our Service Mission as missionaries with BYU Pathway Connect on July 31, 2018.  It lasted for approximately 15 months.  We were assigned as the missionaries over the 18-31 age group in the Puyallup Washington Site.  It was a great assignment.  We felt privileged and honored to be able to serve in this manner as Education Missionaries.  (We don't have our missionary nametags on in this photo taken at graduation because we actually got released by President Barker two days earlier on the 31st.)  It was a great calling and a great opportunity to be of service to several young men and women working on a path to college.

Elder and Sister Swift with five of our graduates.  Tevor Morris, Christian Johnson, Jared Armstrong, James Dodson, and Kelly Milligan.  Other graduating students included Brock Allen, Kyle Ames, Sammantha Gacke, Krystal Jensen, Samantha Jensen, Izzy Elizabeth Kelly, and Jared Vogel.

The students were great.  We got to know a lot of them and wish them well in their academic endeavors.  Most are going on to BYU-I as online students.

Andrew Baseball

Went and saw Andrew pitch a game.  He's a good pitcher and we saw him strike out several batters.  It was fun to watch.

Flowers and Vegetables

It's been months since we did any blogging but now we're back.  There's been a lot going on, so maybe we can do a blog every day or two until caught back up.

 Here was the last lonely iris.  They were beautiful beyond compare while they lasted.  The date of this picture was just two weeks after the last one (seen in the previous blog) when they were all in full bloom.  So it seems like they were only flowering for about a month.

 We do have some squirrels that live in the trees in our yard.

 Hungry little guy.  Didn't seem to have as many around this year.  But we did see some raccoons occasionally too.

 Tomato plants on the left, peas on the right.  Compare to the previous blog when they were just getting started.

 These are Caleb's onions on the left and zucchini on the right.  He's already made some zucchini bread and it was delicious.  Very moist and tasty.

Pumpkins and rhubarb in the corner of the yard.  Hope the pumpkins are ready by Halloween.