March 14th and 15th

Elder Carver, Brother Inoye, Brother Aaron, Elder Presser, Elder Adcock, Front:Sister Inoye, Sister Aaron, Sister Presser, Sister Adcock

Yesterday was our last day in the "Preach My Gospel" training at the MTC.  It was a bitter sweet day.  We had grown to love the people in our district after working with them for 5 days and we were all going different ways.

MTC District with Sister Bateman in center, our afternoon instructor

In the morning we all worked together with other groups to role play being missionaries and investigators and learning how to apply the principles in Preach My Gospel to be effective missionaries.  We took a picture with our trainer in the morning, Elder Carver with our District.
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First Group Picture of our MTC Missionaries Larry and I are to the left end

Second Group Picture  of MTC Missionaries

After lunch we took a group picture with all the Elders and Sisters that were in our MTC Group.  They had to take two pictures to get us all in the picture.  We also took another district picture with our afternoon trainer, Sister Bateman.  We had a big group evaluation and we were dismissed an hour earlier than the other days.

It was such a beautiful day I had to take a picture.  60 in the afternoon.

I was especially excited because after getting the antibiotic on Thursday, I was feeling much better and had a significant reduction in my coughing.  I really felt like having the doctor in our group was a tender mercy from the Lord because my doctor at home still did not think I needed an antibiotic when I called him and after listening to my cough all week, Dr. Inoye offered to call me in an antibiotic without me asking him.

Our Rental Car in front of our apartment

The Chrysler Dealership found a computer for our car so they could get it fixed but the person who owned it refused to ship it overnight so we had to extend our rental car until next Friday.  Hopefully it will come in Thursday and they will get the car finished by Friday when we had planned to start for San Antonio.

Friday evening after dinner we packed up our laundry and went to Mom's to do our laundry and visit with her.  She said that she was glad to see us as there was nothing on TV that she liked that evening.  We spent most of the time talking and visiting.  I was interested to find out that the reason Dad could not sleep for so many years was because he was taking prednisone for his allergies and for a long time they did not know that a side effect was that it interfered with your sleep.

Mom relaxing that night

We had fun talking about what we had done at the MTC this week and comparing it with Mom and Dad's experiences at the MTC about 20 years ago.  My dad was always one not to complain and Mom said that he got sick in the MTC also.  We also talked about the Phillipines and some of the things that they had experienced there.  Mom's housekeeper in the Phillipines, Terry, had commented on a picture that I shared of Mom at the shower so we were able to go in and see the pictures that she had posted on her wall on Facebook and Mom found out that they had a grandchild she did not know about.  I also showed her the pictures of my grandchildren that were on Facebook that day.  When Larry would get up to go check on the laundry she was always encouraging me to go take care of it so he didn't have to do it.  We had stopped at the BYU creamery and bought her a half gallon of Chocolate ice cream so we all shared that.  Because it took a while for us to do two batches of laundry it was about 10:30 p.m. when we got home.

We determined that we needed to get up this morning at 5:30 a.m. just like during the week if we were going to get to the dentist in Kaysville by 9:00 a.m.  We got up and got ready.  Because it is our preparation day we dressed in casual clothes and put our badges on like instructed rather than the Sunday best we are required to wear most of the time.  We were planning to go to the cafeteria to get breakfast but then we realized that we could not eat there if we were not dressed up so we went to IHOP

IHOP was a big mistake because I came out of there with 18 of my 26 points for the day gone.  But it tasted good and we were able to just relax and talk.

We made it to Kaysville by 8:40 a.m.  No one was at our house even though Jenna was moving in and the pharmacy was closed so we went to the dentist office.  He was a little late getting there so we waited in the car.  When he finally came I went in and Larry went to the store looking for a tie chain.  It didn't take long for him to get my crown on.  Then we texted Kirsten about when she wanted to eat and then went to the Post Office to finally turn in our address forwarding card.  Then we went to the pharmacy to get a prescription for Protonix that was supposed to be called in but when they looked they did not have record of it.  So I bought some lotions that I needed.

After that we went to the house to see Jenna.  It was hard because she and her mom and dad had boxed up almost all of our things that we had left as she rented it as a furnished house and put them in the garage and a room in the basement and had changed everything so much.  But it is her house for the next 18 months and she had taken care to box and stack things correctly.  I was upset though because they were still using the antique bedset of my mother in law, Aleda Christiansen, and they asked if they could refinish the top and recover the stool for the dressing table.  I told them no that it had sentimental value.  The contract said that they could not paint anything or change it without permission so I was glad we had that in.  It kind of hurt my feelings that most of our stuff was not good enough to use except that and then they wanted to change it.  But they are very fussy people about how a house looks, more so than me.

Larry was upset because they wanted to put some things from the mantle in the office and when he went to put it in the keys for our offices were not there and he is sure that he put them on the key rack before we left and he had tried the keys before they left to make sure they were right.  He had also spent $175.00 to have the garage doors repaired and they were saying that it didn't work and he could not get it to work either.  So it was a frustrating experience.  We finally told them that they would have to have Steve Libby come and see if he could do something about the locks and I don't know what they decided on the garage door.

Kyle with his Prom invitation

We went to meet Kirsten after that.  We were late as we took too long talking at the house.  I had a good talk with her while Larry spent time calling to get another Comcast box for the downstairs at the house as they said they would pay for it.  Kirsten said that Kyle was asking a girl to prom and sent me a picture of his idea for asking.  We had a good visit with Kirsten and it was hard to say goodbye because we will not be back up that way for a while.

We went to Bountiful and I bought me some new walking shoes at Deboer's.  Then we headed down to Mom's and visited with her again for awhile before heading home.  We were both so tired that we took a nap when we got home at 4:00 p.m.  and we determined that we would not need to go to dinner because we ate so much during the day.

I have spent the evening working on some paper work and now the blog.  Larry is coughing tonight so maybe I was more contagious than I thought and all my district will be sick next week where ever they are.  I feel bad about that.  So Larry has continued to sleep and such except for when we had prayer and scripture.  One good thing about tomorrow is we can sleep until 7:00 a.m.