This week started off with a devotional with President Lund (General Young Mens President) and the choir sang a beautiful song, Christmas Time, composed by Sister Joan Roth, who is in our mission and has arranged a couple other songs we've sung. It was as beautiful evening.
Things went fairly smoothly Monday and Tuesday with a BYU Pathway Christmas lunch on Tuesday where we got to see a preview of a BYU Pathway documentary that will be broadcast this spring. It was beautiful and such a great reminder of all that BYU Pathway is doing to change people's lives. Tuesday evening we went with the Smiths to Savior of the World (and we still love it!).
Wednesday we had a bit of a disaster when my WhatsApp account got blocked right after I'd sent out the messages for the next day's interviews. We were able to get hold of most of the students through email and set up their interviews over google meet but it has sure thrown a wrench into our schedule! This happened to the Johnsons last year and it took a month or more to get the account reinstated. This is because of the sheer numbers of WhatsApp messages we send out, and they think we must be marketing something, even though we are only responding to student's requests.
Wednesday evening was the Zone party for the Mission Office Zone (MOZ) who have more or less adopted us. So, we played a musical number and got to attend their party. It was beautiful, great food, wonderful decorations and fun people. We'll see how our own zone party this week stacks up to it :)
Some wonderful friends from growing up were at that party with us! Packs grew up with the whole North Logan Israelsen clan. Margie now serves in our same mission, so she and her husband Hoyt Stephensen came to the Christmas party!
Friday we had early interviewsand it was snowing in the morning, so we did our work from our apartment and then did some Christmas shopping. It's fun to wander around City Creek in December.
Yesterday we had Tyler and Blaine's families come down for different events so we got to spend time with them. Tyler, Marie and their two older kids saw Savior of the World so we took the younger two to the Church History Museum where they have a great kid's area that the kids loved. They got to build block temples, color pictures of temples and many other activities.
Later we met up with Blaine and Deanna and took care of their boys while they had a date. The boys ran like crazy at the food court kid's area and loved it. We just had to keep track of them in the midst of about a thousand other kids. It was fun chaos.
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