Happy Chinese New Year!
We started the week with our monthly Break the Fast dinner for our apartment building and it was fun as always. The assortment of food varies from month to month but this one was definitely dessert heavy.
Monday night for our mission devotional we had Elder and Sister Ringwood. Sister Ringwood is President Nelson's eighth of nine daughters and she spoke about growing up in the Nelson home. It was wonderful! Then Elder Ringwood spoke about music and how it influenced different times in his life. As he talked about each hymn, he had the pianist play one verse of the hymn. It was beautiful.
Gary has been missing turkey (we usually do several turkey dinners through the winter) so on Thursday we had turkey for lunch. It was lovely and made our apartment smell good enough to probably make all the neighbors hungry. It was also a day to catch up a bit and breathe after a few non stop days. Every once in a while it's good to figure out if we're going in the right direction!
We've had a couple of interviews this week with people who are not the normal Pathway students. One guy is in his fifties and an attorney and a woman who has a Master's in biology. But both are loving Pathway for the help they get with things like time management, goal setting and the spiritual tie in that makes it so different from the other education they have.
This weekend has been very busy but oh so good. We went up to Logan on Friday night and did a musical fireside for anyone who wanted to come from our ward and family. We included Gary's brother David on cello, Gary's sister Vurvian and our niece Teresa on flutes, and our niece Christine's daughter Eden on viola. We had three amazing accompanists: our sister in law Susan, and Krysta McClure and Sally Karen from our North Logan Ward. We ended up with about 30 people there and it was such a beautiful evening. Gary had the performers share their testimony of music and how it ties to the gospel between the numbers. Such a fun evening!
Gary and his brother David
Vurvian and her daughter Teresa
Two year old grandson really wanted to play!
So, he did--after the program
Today we had the baptism of our grandson, Corbin in Logan. It was a wonderful day and we're so proud of him! It was great to see lots of family and friends there to support him.
Thirty new missionaries came into the mission last week and although we lose a few each month, there are definitely more coming in than leaving. I don't know how the presidency manages to keep up with all of them! It's an exciting place to be and we love being able to be around all these great people. One of the couples coming in this week is a couple we know from Cache Valley: Brent and LaConna Hoggan's daughter Robinette and her husband Bill Jensen. It was really great to see them get called to join us in the Utah SLC Headquarters Mission!
The work of God continues to move forward with the BYU Pathway Worldwide program! It is growing bigger all the time and is blessing the lives of so many people! We are so glad to be a little tiny piece of this wonderful work!
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