We first met Elder Mears many years ago when he was a missionary serving in the Puerto Rico San Juan Mission. Through several visits to our home over the months he served in our area, he became a good friend. He served with at least three companions (as far as I can recall) over that time period. As kids, we looked up to Elder Mears and the other missionaries as role models and as the kind of missionaries we five boys wished to be like in our own missionary service in the years that followed.
Here are Rick, Kammi, and their combined "Brady Bunch" family (yep, three boys and three girls) after the sealing:
Elder Hadley was one of Elder Mears's companions in our area; he came up from Las Vegas to attend the sealing. It was great to see him again (pictured here with his girlfriend, Jen) after so many years:
The Mears' sealing was performed, in fact, by Bro. Kay Briggs, who was Elder Mears's and Elder Hadley's mission president during the second year we lived in P.R., and the Briggs family attended the same ward we did So, it was a mini-Puerto Rico reunion in more ways than one. It was great company for a picturesque spring day.
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