Hello All Our Friends and Family,

I think we have begun the process of figuring out our Blog.  Hopefully we can now do some catching up and let you know all the wonderful adventures we have already experienced.

We will start at the MTC (Missionary Training Center).  We entered the MTC on Sept. 3, 2012.  It was so well organized it was amazing.  When you figure they have 4,000 young men and women and Senior Couples all there at the same time, all learning 50 different languages and all needing to be fed three meals a day, it was staggering.  And yet it all sent smoothly.

We had the largest Senior Missionary group ever, 118.  They divided us up into districts and began the teaching process. These are pictures of our group.  All going to different places - one couple to California, where they will serve from their own home, another to New York and another to Florida.  We were the only ones going foreign.  What a wonderful group.  

We were together for two weeks being taught by young men and women who had returned from Missions and were now teaching us about serving the people in our missions.  We learned from them, from each other, and from volunteers in the community who were recent converts and would come in and let us practice on them on how to teach the gospel.  It was a humbling and yet exciting experience.

Our days were long, we would start at 8:00 in the morning and finish by 8:00 at night.  What an experience.  We loved our MTC experience.  Being with young men and women was so energizing and being with so many other Senior couples and listening to their stories and where they were going was so fun.