We started off the week driving up to Logan after church where we celebrated grandson Elliot's (Richard and Daria) 3rd birthday. He had a great time eating cheetohs and cake--nutrition at it's finest. We stayed over night in Logan and visited our parent's graves on Memorial Day. My parents are in Mantua and Gary's in Logan. Both are beautiful, peaceful cemeteries and we love visiting. We finished up the day with a family potluck picnic in Logan and had a great weekend all around.
Mantua Cemetery
Logan Cemetery with Gary's parents and oldest brother
Our grandson, spiderman, made an appearance
Tuesday we got back to work with interviews and a trip to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. Then Wednesday and Friday we really loaded up on interviews. The requests keep coming in and it was good to get in a couple of very packed days this week along with more reasonable ones. On Thursday we got to spend a couple of hours with the incoming 2nd counselor (mission presidency) and our zone leaders as we took the counselor and his wife around our zone so they could get an idea of all that goes on. It was great for us too to get to meet more of the missionaries.
If you look closely you can see the duck enjoying the fountain in front of the Oquirrh Mountain Temple
I talked with a student this week who is American but living in Cambodia teaching English. She grew up hearing all sorts of anti Mormon things and pretty much became non religious. She didn't even know Pathway was connected to the church until she was already taking classes but she has loved it. She has even loved the institute classes and is enjoying the Book of Mormon. At the moment she seems to mostly be enjoying the story and history but she says that she no longer hates the church because she has seen the good it does and has felt the change in her life.
From Gary: We have amazing interviews every week! I spoke to a young man in Nigeria this week that has grown up as a Christian all of his life. He was introduced to BYU Pathway by a friend who is a member of the Church. He said he has been amazed by how much our church has to learn about Jesus Christ that he had never heard before! He has loved it so much that he has a baptismal date for June 7th! We are talking to many students of all ages that are seeing great light in the restoration of the gospel and the power of eternal families that only our Church provides!
We continue to ooh and aah over all the flowers around Temple square and in the surrounding neighborhoods. Fortunately the weather has been great for walking and we're hoping it stays that way for a bit before getting ridiculously hot.
Big flower "bowls" in front of the Church Office Building
We love walking in the Avenues, so many flowers!
Yesterday we got to go the Layton Temple open house and loved it so much! It is so good to have a temple in Layton where we spent so much of our lives. Blaine, Richard and families came as well as Blaine's in laws. It was a fun afternoon and we followed it up with dinner at Appleby's.
Layton Utah Temple
Happy grandpa with his arms full of grandsons
Today we loved teaching the Primary kids about Alma the Younger and they were so fascinated with the story. They are such a fun group of 4 and 5 year olds. Best place to be on Sundays!
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