A Lot Has Happened

So much has happened since our last post. We have gone through the training at the MTC, driven across the USA and part of Canada. We have arrived at our Mission and have already been here almost three months. Boy, does time fly. I spend time on facebook posting and kind of forgot about blogger. We have had so many experiences, including seeing Canada for the first time. We entered Canada at Sault Sainte Marie and traveled east all the way to Nova Scotia. Canada was really beautiful in the fall. It was a long and exhausting trip, but as soon as we got to our assigned area we only had part of Saturday and Sunday, to get settled in and report to the Mission Office on Monday. There was so much to do and so much to learn, I will spare you the boring details of that part. We had dinner with the Mission President and his wife and later in the week had dinner with the Temple President and his wife and four others. Since then we have been serving in the Mission Office, five days a week, often for 12 hours a day. The most enjoybable part of the mission is serving with all these wonderful young people out here trying to get the gospel to as many as they can in this area. They are doing a good job, and right now it is cold, windy, freezing, sleeting, snowing, icy, foggy, take you pick. It is one or more of those things every day. Our car doors have frozen shut more than once.