Easter Sunday

It's been a beautiful Sunday here.  We started off the morning going to the Tabernacle for Music and the Spoken Word.  We sat up right next to Lloyd Newell who gives the Spoken Word.  Interesting to see the technical side of the broadcast.  The music was wonderful and the Tabernacle was full.  They sang "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" and the "Hallelujah Chorus"  Then we had a nice Easter program in our Branch.  Brent and I were the narrators.

Last night we went to the NCAA Women's Gymnastics Regionals at the U and saw our neice, Callee Price with her ASU team.  It was fun to see her perform and we got a minute to chat afterwards.  It was her last time with her team as her eligibility is over this year.  She is so cute and did a great job.

This week Erin and the kids came for a quick spring break trip and stayed with us while they saw some of the sites in SLC.  We hadn't seen the boys since Christmas so it was great to spend some time with them.

Here I am in my cubicle.  Notice the bowl of pretzels.  Someone started doing that 6 or 7 years ago and it has been kept up by whoever sits here.  I didn't want to be the party pooper so I fill the bowl every morning.  I get the huge bags at Costco--3 to a carton.  It does bring lots of people to my desk and some stop to chat.  Most people are into free food!!

This is Brent's office.  He sits with his back to the door and his face to his computer about 7 1/2 hours a day--pretty exhausting most days.  Notice that he has no windows.  But he tells people that we are living our dream--serving a mission together.

We were fortunate to get tickets to 2 sessions of conference in the Conference Center.  It was great to be there in person and we enjoyed it so much.  I like watching at home but as long as we're here in Salt Lake we will try to attend all we can.

One night this week a couple in our zone made Mexican dinner for all of our zone.  It was delicious and fun to socialize with our zone.  We are 6 couples and 2 senior sisters so have gotten to know each other pretty well as we have a devotional together 4 mornings a week.  There are so many interesting and wonderful people to meet here.

So time to get ready for a new week--pack our lunch for tomorrow and set out clothes so we can be fast in the morning.  Monday morning we have our choice of devotionals--one with the Missionary Department and one with the Mission.  If we're fast we can hit part of both.  Then at noon is a devotional with the Church Service Missionaries and a FHE tomorrow night.  Will we make it to everything??  Hard to say.  We'll see