Missionary Sculpture

Our favorite sculpture - it conjured up visions of our missionary sons riding their bicycles on their missions in southern France and northern Tokyo for two years. Matthew wore out two during his mission.

Missionary Training Center

Before reporting for duty in Salt Lake on Oct. 19 we spent five days at the Missionary Training Center in Provo. Both our sons had spent the same week plus two months learning French and Japanese before leaving for their missions. It was fun imaging that we were standing, sitting, eating and experiencing the same things they had just a few years before us. Those five days were full of spiritual experiences and we used lots of tissues listening to wonderful stories. A young man going to Anchorage, Alaska sang a hymn on our first day and there was not a dry eye amongst the 34 senior couples in the room.

Conference Center Seating

The new Conference Center seats 21,000 and it's full for every General Conference with hundreds outside hoping to get a seat. I'm told that the floor is so large that a 747 could fit with room to spare.

Conference Center

Our interpreter booths are in a secluded room right beneath the mezzanine floor - no windows or public entries so no one knows it's there. But what a bee hive of activity - the Sunday afternoon session of General Conference was interpreted into 92 languages including Navajo, Apache, most European, middle eastern, Asian and some I've never heard of. Most teams have four people for each broadcast session - two in the booth and two outside getting ready for the following speaker. There are thousands of volunteers working behind the scenes to facilitate each broadcast.

Temple Square

Our office is right next to Temple Square so we can walk around the beautiful grounds during lunch and after work. Right now there are hundreds of volunteers taking out this year's annuals and planting new pansies, tulips and daffodils - the spring gardens will be gorgeous - as always.

Church Headquarters Building

Our office is on the 21st floor of the Church Office Building. Everyone is so nice and willing to help out a couple of new arrivals. We're beginning to get our minds wrapped around the workings of the various computer programs that we are expected to use every day.....we just need to remember how to access them when we try to use them at the beginning of each new day.

Brigham Apartments

We've moved into our new apartment now and Mom is all but finished with her nesting activities. We have a nice indoor pool, hot tub and workout room that we can use to unwind in after a hard day's work at the office.

When you come out to visit we have free parking tokens for the lot next door so you won't have to hunt for a parking space - everything is nice and convenient from our apartment.