Well, already I am behind! Friday the 23rd, we finished up our first week at the MTC with our Preach My Gospel training. It was a great week! Made some new friends, and it was hard to say good-bye to some on Friday, as they were leaving to go to their assigned missions. Some others, like us, are here for a second week of training, so it will be good to see them again and get to know some others better than we did from our first week.
Friday’s assignment was to role play…..both as a less
active, and as a missionary to a less active.
It was a good learning experience.
When classes ended, we headed home to finish our cleaning
and packing.
Saturday, we visited
with some neighbors, Grandpa Yearsley, and Scott’s family…..we had lunch with
Scott’s family in Pocatello at Pizza Pie Café…the kids choice. Ashley and Casey joined us too. It was nice visiting with them again. They gave us a goody bag to take with us.
We loaded the trunk first, packed the suitcases, then put
some of them in. We had so much more to
load!
This morning, Sunday, I woke up at 4, and couldn’t get back
to sleep….I kept thinking about what were we going to do, it wouldn’t all
fit. Finally, at 5:30, I just got up,
and good thing I did. There was so much to do still! When Gary woke up, I told him I decided I
didn’t need the sewing machine after all, and some of the kitchen stuff needed
to come out too. We hadn’t even packed
our coats yet, and didn’t know where they would fit otherwise. So, it turned out we loaded and unloaded the
trunk 3 times! Finally we got what had
to go, and took out what didn’t. We
learned on Friday that when we get to San Jose, we will not be able to move
into our apartment until Sept. 13th, so apparently, we will be
living out of a suitcase for 2 more weeks.
We went to Sacrament Meeting only in Arimo, then came home
and finished last minute cleaning then we hit the road at 2:51. We were making pretty good time, even with a
couple of places with road construction.
Traffic was light. Then we hit
Lehi……the road construction there was slower, but we still made it by shortly
before 6. We dropped off our
luggage….what we were taking up anyway…..and then Gary went to park the car
while I took a few items up to our apartment in the M2 building on the MTC
campus. It is the senior missionary
building, on the 3rd floor of that building. I went back down, started hauling all the
items inside the door…they were in the loading area….then after I got them all
inside the door, I started moving them towards the elevator. Luckily, the hall was empty and quiet. By then, I checked outside, and Gary was
finally getting there. So, we put
everything in the elevator, went up to the 3rd floor, and then put
it all out of the elevator. It took a couple
of trips to get it all to our room. Then
we just left it, went to dinner, then to the devotional. Elder Stephen B. Allen, Managing Director of
the Missionary Department, was the speaker.
It was great! He used Alma 26:27,
29, 30…..and based his talk on just that!
Looking forward
to tomorrow, to our office training!
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