Brenda and Marla Are On Their Way

We will be grateful and thankful for until we go home for the wonderful participants in the Institute Class that we have the privilege to teach. One thing that we do is hand out quotes and scriptures for them to read in English. Many of them struggle with reading English but they do it and we are so very proud of them for trying so very hard. We always try and let them know if they are not there how much we missed them, even if they have a good reason for not attending. Our neighbors were up from last week, but not as good as two weeks ago, we only had twenty there today, that is still wonderful.

After Institute we did our normal FaceTime and Skype calls with family, well there were three that were not the normal calls. Spencer, Roman and Hudson took a trip to California to see Spencer's brother and his family, they also stopped in Las Vegas at his sister's family home. So this morning we FaceTimed with Wendy in Draper and Spencer and the boys in Las Vegas. Since Brenda is on her way to Cambodia we FaceTimed with Dave for a few minutes. We did find out that Brenda's little crises (she forgot to print her Cambodian Visa) was solved. Likewise, we FaceTimed with Connie (Marla's roommate) since Marla is also on her way here today.

As we went to go and get groceries we passed Elder Leavitt, he had walked over to get his haircut. Then when we got to the grocery store Sister Christensen had found a minute to sneak away and do some much needed grocery shopping. It is so fun to bump into our fellow Senior Missionaries. Elder Oveson talked to Elder & Sister Jones when he was at the Stake Center for his meeting.

Brenda and Marla let us know that they made it to China, they had a stop in Shanghai, the connection was not very good so we will wait to find out about their flight when they get here. We did find out that Marla did not sleep at all and Brenda was like a toddler, she would fall to sleep for a while, then wakeup for a while and then fall back to sleep. It will be interesting to see if either one of them sleep very well this evening. We will have a very short night tonight, their flight arrives at 11:15, so we probably will not be in bed before 1:00 a.m.

Update: they arrived at 12:30, but we didn't see them until about 1:00 a.m. We were happy to see them, and loved the cookies and treats they brought for us. We may have to extend our mission time to be able to finish all the goodies they brought!