Mission update 5/4/2025

 Monday morning's devotional was given by the Family History Projects zone--they do a variety of things that help people get found in family search and make is so their work can be done once their family members get connected to them. They all work in the same area as we do in the North Office building so we know most of them. Elder Hope (who is the zone leader with his wife) spoke at the end and talked about pondering on what it means to wait upon the Lord. He started thinking about what a waiter or waitress does at a restaurant and compared that to us serving the Lord. So, instead of just sitting and waiting for our prayers to be answered, we go and serve. I love that! Answers to prayers come so much better when we are busily doing what we can with the knowledge we already have. 

Monday evening we had a fire drill practice for the senior missionaries in our apartment building. It was terribly exciting of course but fun to all gather together so we could see who else is in our building. It changes often enough that we forget.

Counting heads

Tuesday and Wednesday we worked non stop all day, getting lots of students interviewed. But, there are still so many to go that it's easy to get a bit discouraged. It sure is wonderful that so many people are discovering Pathway. 

The big news in our family for Wednesday was that our oldest grandson, who has been on a service mission since the end of last summer, started a two month trial of being a teaching missionary. His parents dropped him off with all his luggage at the mission home and we'll find out where he ended up when he has his P day this week. He was so excited (and nervous) to go.

Elder Pack getting a goodbye hug from his Dad

Thursday morning in our zone devotional we were taught that we are enough. We do the Lord's work, we are His hands and we are enough in the work we do. So good to hear on a crazy, busy week!

In our training to learn to do oral personal history interviews for the Church History library, we got to sit in on an interview this week and it was with Taysom Hill, BYU quarterback who now plays for the NFL. We loved getting to sit in and get to know what an amazing man he is. 

Taysom Hill with Packs!

We've had a couple of students to interview this weekend, got to see a couple granddaughters in a musical production and had some lovely walks. Now we set up interviews for the week ahead and get ready to dive back in.

Salt Lake City has some fun murals, this one is brand new and still being worked on

From Gary:  We have grandchildren who love to make ice cream shakes like this one, so we decided to buy one:

Dirt Cup with Worms Shake

The interview with Taysom Hill was a lot of fun!  He is from Pocatello and has made a great name for himself at BYU and in the NFL playing for New Orleans.  He is currently injured again, and the latest prognosis is to maybe be healed by November this year.  He has always stayed close to the Church and has a great testimony that he shared with us!

We both spoke to students this week who were barely qualified for us to do their Ecclesiastical Endorsements, since we can only interview non-members of the Church.  Sylvia spoke with one woman who was baptized on Sunday, but had not been confirmed yet, so she was able to do the interview!  I then talked to another woman on Wednesday who was planning on being baptized on Friday!  She sent me a picture of her baptism:

Pathway students with their Missionaries!

We continue to have amazing experiences every week as we watch the Kingdom of God roll forward to all the world!

Have a great week!

We love you all!

Elder and Sister Pack