This is THE place — to greet returning LDS missionaries
Salt Lake City International Airport set aside a public space for these emotional reunions. You can’t miss it. Just look for the signs, balloons and dazed white-shirted young men.
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Family members gather at Salt Lake City International Airport to welcome Latter-day Saint missionary Kaysen Sperry home from a two-year mission to Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
Blake joined The Tribune in March 2022 to cover city and county government before becoming an editor in 2024. He is a University of Minnesota graduate who started his journalism career in Las Vegas, where he covered local government, state politics and the depletion of the Colorado River. He is dad to a Golden Retriever named Woodward.