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Pacific Northwest	26 Oct 2005
I will be making a trip to the Pacific NW from 3 Dec to 17 Dec. If anyone up there knows me, I would love to get together. Send me an e-mail. Rob
Robert P Sherwood	Send Email

Covey? Moore?	18 Oct 2005
Anyone seen, heard from, or know the whereabouts of Steven M Covey or John Arthur Brigham Moore? I would like to find them.
Todd Wheeler	Send Email

October 2005 Reunion	16 Oct 2005
This is a quick update on the Lund reunion we had last night. First off all I would like to thank President and Sister lund for opening up their home to us. We had a great evening talking about our families, what we're doing now, and our favorite memories from the mission. Those in attendance (in order of appearance) were President and Sister Lund, Kelly and Jesica Branan, Jonathan Groberg and his wife, Sister Adams (?) and her husband, Lance Lenhauff and his wife, Elder Bybee and his wife, and Aaron Smith. We had a great time and look forward to the next reunion in March!
Kelly Branan	Send Email

Tony Scoma	03 Oct 2005
I would like to make contact with Elder Tony Scoma, originally from South San Francisco...also Elder Kip Egan. Can anyone direct me to them?
Ray L. Nielsen	Send Email

President Sager	02 Oct 2005
Does anyone know where President Sager is? I would love to see him. Would it be possible for us to arrange a reunion for his era in April? I would love to do what is needed to have a reunion if we find people that could be here. I have never been able to be to a reunion for the last 30 years, and I think it is about time!
Thomas John Redd	Send Email

Reunion	30 Sep 2005
Dear Friends: How fun it is to read your thoughts about our mission and President & Sister Stevens. I share the feelings so many of you have expressed about these two remarkable people and the wonderful experiences we shared in France and Switzerland. I would love to be with you tonight and will be there in spirit. Had circumstances been different, I would have made arrangements to be there. But today, my wife Julie is undergoing her second chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. While the process is proving to be a significant challenge, her prognosis is good and we look forward to the day when she will be restored to full health. Tonight at the reunion, please give everyone a hug for me. Perhaps I can make the next one. Best wishes to all, Tom Boyle
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Thanks to OJS & Sister Stevens	30 Sep 2005
February 1978: One day I was working hard in the mission print shop, when Pres. Stevens came over and asked me a question. He wondered if we had more of a certain print product, or he said something to redirect my attention. I scrambled to please him--flitting about trying to find what he wanted. In just a few moments he was satisfied and was on his way back to his office. I continued with my work, and after a moment I noticed the purpose for his visit--he had placed a very small red, custom-trimmed paper valentine on top of my paper-feeder tray that said, "I love Elder Nielsen". I have always appreciated the fact that he took a moment to come over on Valentine's Day and do that. It touched me. I think I still have the valentine somewhere. For Sister Stevens, I have much appreciation for her being concerned about the well being of missionaries. Thank you for taking care of us. I still use my cookbook now and then and show it to my boys. Sweet & sour sauce with meatballs is important! I do a lot of the cooking. And I wish to apologize to Sister Stevens for my in clumsiness in failing to conseal that I didn't really care for the colossal shopping trips to Migros to resupply the mission home. I believe she was disappointed when I accidentally divulged this attitude. I embarrassed myself. I didn't have to like it, but I should have just kept quiet and continued to do my part--somebody's got to do it. Now Sis. Stevens can smile to know that as the father of five sons (Laman, Lemuel, Sam, Nephi, Jacob--not really!), that I do almost all the shopping and I'm very a discriminating customer. Plus, I can hold four gallons of milk in one hand!
Ray L. Nielsen	Send Email

Thoughts on OJ Stevens	30 Sep 2005
President Stevens will undoubtedly be uncomfortable with all of these laudatory messages. At the risk of further offending his humility, I wish to add my two centimes by way of thanks. Dearest President: Thank you for remaining open to the possiblity that I wasn't a total screw up, even when your first item of business was dealing with my accident in Montbelliard. Thank you for teaching me that anger is always out of place. Thank you for allowing me to grow at my own rate, even if I was , and still am, slow, clumsy and frustrating to those around me. Thank you for teaching me that when the Savior comes first, all good things follow. Thank you for teaching me, by example, that humility precedes everything else and that meekness is not weakness. Thank you for teaching me that serious gospel study is fascinating and fun, but that taking myself too seriously isn't. Thank you for teaching me how to recognize and follow the Spirit and to help others do the same. Thank you for showing me how to trust the Lord -- that finding and following His will in my life, making it my will, defines harmony and happiness. Thank you for teaching me how to live in peace amidst chaos. Thank you for trusting in me when I may not have deserved it. Thank you for understanding, even before I explained. Thank you for loving always, before fully understanding. Thank you for a lifetime of lessons well taught (but not necessarily well learned) in such a short time. Blessings! Mike Dowdle
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More Thoughts on OJS & the Geneve Experience	30 Sep 2005
I also will not be able to attend the reuion but I really appreciate that we can have a "virtual" reunon of sorts via this web site. Merci Frere Wood ! I loved how President Stevens could tell you exactly what you needed to hear in exactly the way you needed to hear it. One time I sat down with him during a "President visit" to the District I was serving in. I expressed my dissappointment that my companion wasn't very motivated to do the work. President then asked me how my testimony was. I responded, "Welll..OK".... President then just laughed in my face - and that's all he had to do to get the message across. Other memories: I loved the way that Pres Stevens would choose to go for a walk while doing interviews rather than just sit. I will always remember the image of Pres Stevens arriving in his car for a zone conference with a cassette tape recorder strapped to his steering wheel with bungee cords. Like Elder Knell, I greatly appreciated Pres Stevens' teachings and personal example of living the gospel by faith and by the Spirit. I continue to be amazed at how borders and languages cannot hold him back from doing what the Lord wants done. To this day, thanks to Pres Stevens, Wilford Woodfruff is still one of my greatest heros. I'm thrilled that we get to study his teachings in Priesthood meeting this coming year. It's awesome to see on this web site so many of the missionaries that I grew to love while in the Mission de Geneve who are still faithful and continue to do great things in the Gospel. I hope some of you who are able to attend the reunion will make others aware of this website so we can be in touch with them !! Frere Brent Winn
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Elder Knell's reflection on Pres. Stevens	30 Sep 2005
Scott: I too am unable to attend the reunion this weekend (I also followed the recommendation "to go East".) Thank you for your comments. I remember so many of those teachings just as you reported them. I had to sit here in my office for a few minutes and shed a few silent tears of joy for the way in which that dear servant of the Lord - President Stevens - shaped my life. Now, 29 years later, I am a Bishop and the most recent young man I sent on a mission arrived in Chambesy about 3 weeks ago and is now posted in Liechtenstein (we never got to go there :-( ). I have told him how my prayer for him is that his mission will shape him to the extent it has molded me. My best to all of the mission alumni who gather this weekend. Dan Thomas
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