This week started with our new mission presidency introductions at our Monday morning devotional. We had President and Sister Craven and the second counselor and his wife there in person. Meanwhile, the first counselor and his wife are still awaiting their VISAs in Australia so they introduced themselves over video. Hopefully they'll get here in a few weeks. Meanwhile, the former first counselor and wife are serving until they arrive.
2/3 of our new presidency
On Tuesday we had dinner at Maddox with the Johnsons (and the rest of our Pathway team) before the Johnsons left for home on Wednesday. They'll still be serving as service missionaries but we're going to miss them!
Choir on Wednesday was a bit of an adventure. Our choir director and husband had to go home for a few weeks since they are from Spencer Iowa where some major flooding occurred last week. They had a foot or two at least in their basement. So, the choir gets to prepare for a patriotic program at the end of July with substitutes. It's going to be something.
The rest of our week was interviewing students as fast as we could and we made some great progress. But, there are still so many waiting for their interviews! We wake up every morning to messages and emails asking for help.
It's fun when we get to talk to students who we interviewed a few months ago. It's great to see what they are learning and hear about their progress. One guy I talked to was telling me how fun it is when he writes a computer program and it works! He is a very happy geek in training.
We made it to another concert in the park on Friday and it was a youth acapella group. They were very good but we did notice that their songs all seemed to have a similar theme of teen angst. The crowd, most of whom were on the far side of fifty probably hoped for a few more upbeat, familiar songs. But it was great to be outside and see kids doing great things.
Today we were supposed to help in the nursery but there was only one child and his mom decided to just take him to class. So, that was easy. We'll see what happens next week.
This next week we'll work hard Monday and Tuesday and then have a family reunion with our kids the rest of the week. We're pretty excited about that! We are headed to a Church Camp called the Snydermill Recreation Camp. With any luck, all of our children and grandchildren will be there!
Happy July 4th Holiday to all!
Elder and Sister Pack
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