I think I am beginning to figure out this blogging stuff. We have had a wonderful time here at the MTC. They treat the seniors like gold with reserved seats and devotionals and extra time to get places and lots of little breaks during the day.

This past weekend was great! Friday evening Lynda & Dave picked us up and took us to the Brick Oven for a snack and then we took them to the Creamery for some Ice Cream Yum!!! We had a great visit. On Saturday after we rested a little and did our laundry Tiffini & Tim took us to Cracker Barrel for dinner and then we stopped at the park on Center St. and let the kids play while we sat and talked. It was neat to see them again and see Darcy without her braces on. She only wears them at night now. It truly is a wonderful time to be alive with all the advances in medicine, communications and other things. After they dropped us off we had a fireside all about the apostasy and the restoration. They had music and film depicting the reformers and then Joseph Smith and the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. Afterwards we all went outside to watch the fireworks from the Stadium of Fire. Nice end to a nice day.

We have just come back from a devotional with Elder Dellenbach, an emeritus seventy. He has really been busy in his church life all over the world. He talked about the miracle of the translation of the Book of Mormon. Joseph Smith did in 72 days what a group of professional translators today with computers and all would take four or five years. It truly is a miracle!!!

Our days are busy this week learning the new system for computers in the mission office, IMOS (Internet Mission Office System). It's a good thing that we can take lots of teaching helps on our flash drive. We feel the spirit every day and are loving it. This morning I gave the devotional thought in our opening session. I went to the back cover page of Preach My Gospel. The second box says:

-Pray often for yourself & for others

-Rely on the Spirit to show you where to go, what to do, and what to say

-Be exactly obedient

-Study the languages of your mission each day

I likened it to our learning of the computer programs that we would pray for help from the spirit to show us where to go on the computer and what to do and to study the language of computers every day.

We have a lot of fun with the other senior missionaries both in class and during our meals and breaks.