This week started off with a very emotional fireside where President and Sister Holmes spoke for the last time for our mission since we get a new Presidency next week. It was beautiful and ended with the choir (joined by everyone else of course) singing God Be With You Till We Meet Again. So much crying! The choir also sang an arrangement of Sweet Hour of Prayer done by our mission secretary that was just beautiful. She wrote in a whole verse of Viola playing with the piano and then both Violin and Viola playing with the choir on another verse, so we got to play for that number.
Mission Presidency except for President Faerber who spent a couple days in the hospital this week
Tuesday we had a meeting at the MTC with the General Conference music committee. We are on the committee because our choir, an MTC choir and sisters from the Temple Square mission will be singing in October conference. We are rather excited about this! It was fun to be in the meeting with the people who have done this many times before and see how organized they are. We are the representatives from our mission so we get to coordinate communication and make sure everyone knows what's going on. We are also planning on singing in the choir for Conference for the Saturday evening session! :)
We are continuing to cram in as many interviews as we can each day and yet trying not to get completely overwhelmed. It's a bit of a balance and we usually end up at least a little overwhelmed all the time. Juneteenth was more or less a mission holiday but we still did interviews, just from home instead of the office.
Gary's Juneteenth interview outfit
Today we spoke in our ward and it's always fun to sit up in front and see the whole ward. My talk was based on Elder Kearon's conference talk about God working relentlessly to bring us home and Gary talked about all that we have and take for granted in the gospel. Then we attempted to teach 4 and 5 year olds in primary about Alma, Amulek and Zeezrom. That may have not quite gone as well but the kids continue to be adorable so it's good.
We found a fun place to walk through on a hot day in the Gallivan Center, it was very refreshing! We have also appreciated that the City Creek mall is covered and air conditioned on hot days so we have a comfortable place to walk.
Beautiful and refreshing
Tomorrow we have a devotional with our new President and Sister Craven and also get a few minutes with them in their presidency meeting to explain all the choir stuff. It will be fun to see how things go with new mission leaders! Gary gets to sing a duet in the devotional that he is not so sure about. He would rather play his viola for sure!
Have a wonderful week!
We love you all!
Elder and Sister Pack
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