Hello All!
It's been a fun week of celebrating the Pioneers, our anniversary and a new granddaughter!
On Monday evening we had our Elijah Choir Pioneer Program and it went very well. We had songs and narration starting from the First Vision to the Pioneers arriving in Salt Lake. We had a great attendance with lots of visitors along with the missionaries. These programs are a lot of work to put together but always are quite wonderful.
We spent the three days we were in the office this week doing mostly choir music sorting and dumping. We filled 4 dumpsters but think we are mostly done with the dumping of music that is not needed. Now, this week we need to go through and reorganize and catalog the remaining music. Then we'll figure out how many crates we really need to move over to the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. Our current office is in the North Office Building (NOB), but the Joseph Smith Memorial Building is opening up after years of construction and our Mission Office is moving back there.
We got a few interviews done and trained another part time Chaplain from our mission but the numbers are still down a bit so we were able to assign all the students out to other Chaplains while we did the organizing.
Wednesday we got a new granddaughter up in Logan and got to go visit her a few hours after she was born and then again a couple days later. She is a beautiful combination of her three older siblings and it's so fun to see bits of them in her.
Grandchild Number 22!
Instead of watching the Days of 47 Parade from the balcony in front of our apartment building, like we did last year, we watched it on TV from Logan. It was much cooler and we loved all the commentary but are glad we got the in person experience last year. On our way out of town on Wednesday we saw the parade entry for the transporting of the granite temple blocks:
Wagons Down North Temple Street!
We celebrated our 43rd anniversary on Tuesday this week with lots of work and a not very good meal out. So, of course we celebrated the rest of the week as well and had a lovely weekend with beautiful drives, the Bountiful Temple, and a show at the Planetarium. It was great!
At the Bountiful Temple!
From Gary: It is amazing to have a 43rd wedding anniversary! After meeting in the Orchestra at USU nearly 44 years ago, we are still making music together! What an adventure our life has been so far! We are still in love and our love for our family continues to grow with every new grandchild added! We are so excited to have our 22nd grandchild here and healthy!
It is always good to think about our pioneer ancestors and know they continue to watch over us and all that is now happening with the restored gospel since their involvement in the beginning! We love Pioneer Day and all of the memories it brings to our minds!
We have just two more months here on our mission. We are still having phenomenal experiences every day as we work with all of the missionaries here at Church Headquarters and call Pathway students all over the world. We are still loving working with our mission choir too!
Have a wonderful week!
We love you all!
Sister and Elder Pack
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