July is here and it has been a wonderful week. We spent Monday and Tuesday fitting in as many interviews as we could in between devotionals, meetings and the Layton Temple. Every day we get more and more messages from students in a panic about getting their endorsement interviews done. It feels like we're digging a well with a teaspoon but progress is happening.
For lunch on Monday, we went to Maddox with the Johnsons and Smiths and met two of the people we work with in Pathway for a "farewell" lunch for the Johnsons. They then left on Wednesday for their home in Las Vegas where they will continue as service missionaries.
Patsi, John, Gary, Sylvia, Trevor, David, Ann, and Kyle
At our Monday devotional, President and Sister Craven spoke and it was beautiful. They encouraged us to have a copy of Preach My Gospel right on the shelf next to our scriptures and to read from its pages every day. It was so good to feel of their spirit and love for the missionaries. Our closing song was "I will Walk with Jesus" from the new church music and it is such a beautiful song. It's been playing in my head all week.
Tuesday we went to the Layton Temple in between our interviews and loved spending time there. We also spent time on Tuesday getting lots of student information to the Smiths so they could continue with interviews while we were gone the rest of the week.
At the Layton Temple
Wednesday through Saturday we had our family reunion with all of our children and grandchildren at The Snydermill Recreation Camp near Park City. It's a church camp and our kids reserved the lodge and surrounding areas for all 36 of us. It was a perfect place with bunk rooms for each family, a huge kitchen, large gathering area and plenty of things to do inside and out. Gary and I loved having everyone there and there was never a shortage of entertainment with all those grandchildren running around. It was rather hard to leave and have all our kids go back to their lives again.
The whole Gary and Sylvia Pack family!
It was wonderful to be reminded about how all-important our family is to us. Of all the things that come with this life and into eternity, nothing can even touch the love we have for each other! We loved to see our children and their spouses just enjoying each other's company! And we really get a kick out of seeing all of our grandchildren playing with their cousins and having so much fun together!
Our oldest grandson Thomas got his mission call and he will start his mission, the San Jose California Mission, in just a couple of weeks. He is excited to get going on it and we are impressed by all the things they already have lined up for him to do. We're so excited to watch him grow and serve!
Today in nursery we had one little boy and he has some autism issues so we just spent the whole time following him around as he wandered the church. We discovered that he loved to tear up paper so he took care of the coloring pages we had prepared quite happily. It was fun to get to explore our church building and find the back stairs that go from the basement right up onto the stage and another set of stairs that leads to pretty much nowhere.
Now we dive right back in, trying to get all these students cleared to progress in their education. It will be a great week!
Just a few pictures from the reunion:
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