We are here

We are here.  We had no internet hook up until today Nov 18th, but we got here on Thursday night. Elder and Sister Wilcox (our trainers so to speak) were at our apartment to meet us as we drove into the parking lot of our apartment complex.  They we so great. They had a little dinner ready for us and helped us unload the car. In 10 minutes we had everything out of the car... no "Elders Quorum move" necessary : )  but it was sure nice to have their help.  We got the apt. pretty well set up before Friday, and Saturday we did a little food shopping and drove around a bit trying to learn the lay out of the city.  It is CRAZY. 

We spent 8 hours in Church yesterday.  Visited 2 Ward Council Meetings, two Sacrament mtgs, one correlation meeting, 1 1/2 Sunday school lessons, 1 RS meeting and a genealogy Fireside.  Today we sat in on the 1st Resiliency Training lesson given by Elder & Sister Wilcox. They will give one more lesson and then we will be taking over because they are leaving. There is an entire Military ward and two other wards with several military members in them all meeting in the Stake Center. But there's about 3 other wards that have military members with no Senior Missionaries so we will have to see if we can help them out too. We will be working with less active members and doing many other things... much to learn.  We are happy and doing great.  Next post has a version of our trip across the country:

What a GREAT busy week.  We have learned so many things that we can do to make the Lords work successful.  We are doing well but you can get a bit tired by the end of the week.  They keep us on a very busy schedule.  We are enjoying it though.

Two days of great learning

We have had a wonderful two days.  SOOOOOOO much to learn and practice.  They teach us just like the young Elders and Sisters.  We have been learning all the teaching principles and the points of doctrine to teach.  We were divided into districts on the very first day... in the afternoon. Almost all our training is done by young returned missionaries. But these teachers teach only Senior couples.  One of our teachers is a student of mine from school.  We practice teaching with role playing among the 4 couples of our district etc.  Tomorrow morning all couples will have a chance to teach an investigator.  All couples are a bit nervous.  I think the biggest problem is we know too much and tend to over do the teaching.  We were taught the K I S S principle... keep it simple seniors. We will need to follow the direction of the spirit to know what to teach our investigator tomorrow.

We were set apart at 4:30 today in the Stake Presidents Office.  Now we will have our last evening with our kids. 

Our Mission Starts...

We enter the MTC tomorrow morning at 10:20 am!