Bye Bye Bishop

What an incredible, fun evening we shared with the people in our Ward! Max has been released as Bishop of our Ward for about 3 weeks now. The Relief Society Presidency planned, and had a very memorable Open House to honor Max for his service of over 6 years as Bishop. It was so very nice and much appreciated.

Max was overcome with emotion when they presented him with a book that a member of the Relief Society Presidency had put together for him. It has pictures of some of the youth activities, graduations, future missionaries, return missionaries and full of sweet letters of gratitude from members of our ward. It was overwhelming to read some of the letters written with thankfulness.


Max truly did an outstanding job as Bishop. We had 100 youth in our Ward and only one was inactive. He loved the Youth. He was fortunate to have a large group of young men to get ready for missions. During his time as Bishop he sent out 49 missionaries. A very sweet friend in our Ward made him a big map, pinpointing the destinations around the world of all the missionaries that he sent out. Four of her sons were among the 49. Anyway......time well spent and a time that he loved.


One of the sweet boys in our Ward, the son of Max's Counselor in the Bishopric, drew this picture of Max. How cute is that? Loving messages from his family surrounded it. It was a very teary night when we returned and read all the different letters and thoughts given to us from the people in our Ward. It will be such a keepsake and reminder of the wonderful experience Max had serving the people in our Ward as Bishop. What a treasure.

Change is hard but it always must happen. It is nice to have Max home.......with nothing to do. We are working on that! He is now a Sunday School teacher and in heaven! He will be teaching the 13-year-olds in our Ward and anticipating all of Kevin's wrestling matches this year at school.

Many thanks go out to all the wonderful, loving, caring people in our Ward who have expressed thanks and gratitude. We, in turn, wish much love (and luck) to the new Bishop and his Family. We love, love them!