The Sunday before Mallory left she gave a talk on Missionary work in the Cape Girardeau Ward and also in the Young Singles Branch.  That evening we had a farewell open house at our home.

On Tuesday, July 15th, we drove Mallory up to the St. Louis airport to see her off.

As we were leaving the airport we saw 6 elders and the St. Louis mission president and his wife who were at the airport to pick up 23 new missionaries who were coming in on the plane that Mallory was getting on.