Eating Well

 The cafeteria at the MTC!  A place to make new friends who are also trying their best to serve our Heavenly Father and his son Jesus Christ.  

We talked with missionaries going to places as diverse as Lubbock, Texas and Busan, Korea.  

From Australia to Norway to Ethiopia to the Philippines to Belgium.

I loved every minute.

Of the 1000 missionaries who were in the MtC with us, about 120 or so were ‘senior couples’ like us.  The rest were young 18, 19, and 20 year olds.  What would you do if you had to feed that many young people, the majority of whom are young men?

Load ‘em up with carbs!  Right?

True but they also had salad bars and rice bowels and fresh fruit and lots of healthy food to assure that nutritional choices were available.  

The choices were nutritious enough to keep us all healthy and sweet enough to keep us happy. I ate more doughnuts and desserts than I’ve eaten in the last year.  

Nothing beats a BYU mint brownie!

George and I enjoyed a Diet Coke, caffeine free almost every day. 

All this yummy food was very economical as well.. 

And it was a treat NOT  to have to cook or do dishes.  

Happy, well fed missionaries!

Conference April 2025

 We live directly across the street from the Conference Center so we watched the preparations all last week.  Everything was given a spring refresh, from the flower beds to the railings.  One perk of being at the Headquarters Mission is that we did get tickets for conference.  What a magnificent building! It seats 21,000 people and as far as I could tell was completely full.

We were way up in the 2nd balcony but the view was still very good.  And of course they also have jumbo TV’s so that you can really see the speakers’ faces.

The spirit was strong and testified to me of the divine calling of each of these men and women.

My faith in my Savior was strengthened and my resolve to serve Him, on this mission, and as long as I live grew.

A few of my favorite quotes from the 5 conference sessions, 

Each April and again in October, members of our church and others are blessed to listen to words of council and encouragement from our church leaders.  When we are home in Idaho, we watch on TV. Congregation around the world make arrangements for their members to participate by satellite or internet. It truly is a time of the outpouring of the spirit.

This year our beloved prophet, Russel M Nelson, who will be 101 years old in September, attended the last session.  His message was prerecorded but his presence was a blessing to all who attended or who listened at home or at a church building.

Hopefully in October we will be watching in Peru.