Getting Ready For The Mission

Jeannine and I needed a photo of us as a couple for the mission paper work.  So here is the transition of Rich smiling for the camera.  In the first photo I promise I was smiling.  It just doesn't look like it from your point of view.  If you were me you would have known I was smiling.  These digital cameras just don't pick up those subtle nuances of a smile that the old film cameras did.  It took 23 shots to get the final outcome of me smiling.  I had to be in hysterics so to have the appearance of smiling.  

This is me smiling without help from Jeannine

This is me smiling with a little help from Jeannine

OK, A little more help from Jeannine.

A lot of help from Jeannine and the final product.  Our paperwork goes in at the end of July, 2011