Hump Day in the MTC

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Today was hump day. That means that we really have done the most intensive things and now we can relax a little in that our schedule won't be quite so intensive. Hardly any time to contact anyone.

We told you about the Fenns. Well we started studying Spanish with them at night from 6 to 8 pm. We have learned more about their life. They live in Montana, though they met in Lake Arrowhead California. Bro. Fenn's father took his family of seven kids to Argentina in the 1960's to build chapels for the church. Now Elder Fenn is going to do the same as he is in charge of the local construction on the El Salvador temple. So they stay for two years. Their children are all grown.

We also met a couple today who are going to Mendoza in February. she has been a pediatric nurse at University Hospital and just retired 8 mos. ago. They were here having language classes and wanted to meet us. So we took them to the cafeteria for lunch. That gave us more time to talk. Their last name is Brown. He has worked at the Tooele Army Depot and she at U of U hospital as I said.

We are probably going to Heber on Saturday to take care of a lot of loose ends pertaining to the things we really want to take to Argentina, but we got our Visa yesterday and know that we can travel without a hitch. But the layover in Dallas next Friday will be short. Just an hour and Dallas is a big airport, so we'll see.

The classes are great and give insights into a lot of things. They showed us a lot of information on the Book of Mormon. Clearly the convert baptisms were rising the fastest when Pres. Benson was pushing the Book of Mormon to the front burner. The convert baptisms have slacked off a little since he has died.

So we feel strongly to put the Book on the front burner. In practice sessions, we are surprised that many missionaries don't have the investigator read passages from the book. That would make Bro. Bankhead sad, but much of what is in Preach My Gospel about the Book of Mormon is from the subject matter Bro. Bankhead always pushed. So that should make him feel good from the Spirit World.

Well, we started skypeing now that our Wireless Internet is working well. So leave your computers on tomorrow night with Skype loaded so that we can try to call you.

Love Mom and Dad