More Missionary News

Spring has finally come to Northern Utah and we are loving it.  With warmer weather and daylight savings time we can go for a walk after work on most days and it sure feels good to be outdoors and in the sun.  Everything on Temple Square is SO beautiful with the flowers blooming and preparations for conference.  They have power washed the sidewalks and washed windows and spiffed up the lawns and flowerbeds.  We try to walk around Temple Square on a break in the morning and/or at lunch.  I've started leaving a pair of walking shoes at work.

This week was the opening of City Creek Center in downtown SLC.  It is so much fun and such a good place to walk around on a nice day.  They have tons of shopping and eating and really nice water features--one even has fire and water--haven't seen that one go off yet.  On Friday I turned 65!  Yikes!!  They had a yummy carrot cake for me at work and Brent took me to dinner at P F Chang.  So good.  Some of the GA's in the Missionary Department were traveling last week to Europe and Elder Zwick brought back a 10 poung block of Guitard chocolate that he had been given.  That is a lot of chocolate.  They were breaking it up with a screwdriver and hammer and telling everyone to go help themselves.  We only managed to eat 5 pounds of it the first day so they were really pushing it on Friday to get it out of the office before the weekend.

This is me leaving for work one morning.  Thankfully I haven't had to wear a coat for a few days.  We have sliding glass doors for a front door--a beautiful view at night of the valley and lights and we have a little deck, too.

Here I am with Gretchen (Sister Bray).  We were roommates at BYU and now here she is with her husband serving in our mission--this is their 3rd mission.  Gretchen, her husband, Ken, Brent and I were all in the same apartment complex just before we got married and we haven't seen them since.  One of their daughters was at Ricks and knew one of our girls.  So it was a pleasant surprise to find them here.  Ken has a neat conversion story.  He came to BYU just to play football and ended up joining the church.  Notice my Chico jacket--a great find at a thrift store in Phoenix!