This is One Fantastic Experience!!

We survived our first week - pretty intensive and packed every minute of the day.......we have loved it all. It has been filled with laughter and tears as we have shared lives and learning. The Missionary Training Center is a miracle in itself - we just sit and marvel as we watch all that transpires here - from feeding everyone here - listening to languages in every tongue....watching young men and women who totally dedicate themselves and those Senior Couples like us who have left much to come as well............We have had wonderful experiences together and find total joy in serving together. If there is one piece of advice we could give to people it would be "SENIOR COUPLES GO NOW!!!" You are truly needed. In our group that came in with us we have two medical doctors going to Nauvoo, and Australia, Single Sisters going to Germany, North Carolina, Auditing directors going to Germany, facility management for Palmyra New York, several couples going to Welfare - Employment Specialist, and a couple going to Jordan where he will be a District Leader for Jordan, Egypt, Syria........it has been wonderful to get to know them all and to share this week together.

We appreciate again so much the prayers in our behalf - we feel strength by your love and prayers. We have received emails - cookies (which we shared with our District and teachers today) and notes. One cute note where the Ralph family was discussing where we were - Marcus said......They are in the "Empty Sea"? I thought they were going to Arizona!!" Ha ha! We shared that with our group and it traveled around the (Empty Sea = MTC - Missionary Training Center)! Everyone loved it and it lifted spirits.............

It doesn't Get Any Better Than This!

The Red Letter Day Is Fast Approaching.....

We are in the packing stage here...........we have been called to the Phoenix Arizona Mission and will be serving in the Window Rock, Arizona area on the Navajo Reservation as employment specialists for that area. We will also be able to serve in other areas as well - teaching institute, doing the Addiction Recovery Program, teaching piano and some teaching with the young men missionaries in the area. We have been so excited to prepare and to have all of you share in our enthusiasm and anticipation of this call.............

This past week end we had all of our family home and it was so fun.............that is one of the hardest sacrifices will be leaving all of them for a year - but we know we will all be blessed in myriad ways during this year.

We enter the MTC on Monday the 27th and will be there until May 8th when we will drive down through Utah to Window Rock...............so remember us in your prayers!